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Graham Hill: Why I'm a weekday vegetarian
Graham Hill: Hoekom ek ’n weeksdag vegetariër is
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Ons ken almal die aanvoerings dat dit beter vir die omgewing en diere is om vegetaries te wees, maar in ons karnivoriese kultuur is dit moeilik om die verandering te maak. Graham Hill het ’n kragtige en pragmatiese voorstel...
Graham Hill - Journalist
Graham Hill is the founder of TreeHugger.com and LifeEdited; he travels the world to tell stories of sustainability and minimalism. He tweets at @GHill. Full bio
Graham Hill is the founder of TreeHugger.com and LifeEdited; he travels the world to tell stories of sustainability and minimalism. He tweets at @GHill. Full bio
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About a year ago,
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Ongeveer ’n jaar gelede,
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I asked myself a question:
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het ek myself gevra:
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"Knowing what I know,
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"Inaggenome wat ek weet,
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why am I not a vegetarian?"
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hoekom is ek nie ’n vegetariër nie?"
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After all, I'm one of the green guys:
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Ek is immers een van die groen ouens.
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I grew up with hippie parents in a log cabin.
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Ek het in ’n houthut met hippie ouers grootgeword.
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I started a site called TreeHugger --
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Ek het ’n webtuiste genaamd Treehugger begin,
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I care about this stuff.
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ek gee om hieroor.
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I knew that eating a mere hamburger a day
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Ek weet dat ’n enkele hamburger per dag
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can increase my risk of dying by a third.
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my sterfrisiko met ’n derde kan vermeerder.
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Cruelty: I knew that the 10 billion
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Wreedheid: ek weet dat die 10 miljard
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animals we raise each year for meat
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diere wat ons elke jaar vir vleis teel,
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are raised in factory farm conditions
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onder fabrieksomstandighede grootgemaak word
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that we, hypocritically, wouldn't even consider
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wat ons, hipokrities genoeg, nooit sou oorweeg
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for our own cats, dogs and other pets.
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vir ons eie katte, honde en ander troeteldiere nie.
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Environmentally, meat, amazingly,
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Uit ’n omgewingsoogpunt veroorsaak vleis,
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causes more emissions
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verbasend genoeg, meer uitlaatgasse
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than all of transportation combined:
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as alle vervoer saam,
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cars, trains, planes, buses, boats, all of it.
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motors, treine, vliegtuie, busse, bote, alles saam.
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And beef production uses 100 times the water
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Beesvleis produksie gebruik 100 keer meer water
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that most vegetables do.
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as wat meeste groente vereis.
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I also knew that I'm not alone.
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Ek het ook geweet ek is nie alleen nie.
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We as a society
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As ’n samelewing
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are eating twice as much meat
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eet ons twee maal soveel vleis
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as we did in the 50s.
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as wat ons het in die 1950’s.
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So what was once the special little side treat
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Wat op ’n tyd die klein, spesiale bykos was,
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now is the main, much more regular.
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is nou die hoofmaal en baie meer gereeld.
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So really, any of these angles
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So eintlik behoort enige van hierdie aspekte
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should have been enough to convince me to go vegetarian.
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genoeg te wees om vegetaries te word.
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Yet, there I was -- chk, chk, chk --
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Steeds, was ek daar: tjk, tjk, tjk
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tucking into a big old steak.
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besig om te smul aan ’n lekker groot steak.
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So why was I stalling?
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So waarom het ek gedraal?
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I realized that what I was being pitched
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Ek het besef dat die opsie wat aan my gestel
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was a binary solution.
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is 'n binêre oplossing is.
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It was either
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Jy is óf 'n vleiseter,
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you're a meat eater or you're a vegetarian,
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óf 'n vegetariër.
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and I guess I just wasn't quite ready.
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En ek was seker net nie heeltemal gereed nie.
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Imagine your last hamburger.
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Stel jou voor: jou laaste hamburger.
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(Laughter)
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(Gelag)
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So my common sense,
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So my logika,
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my good intentions,
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my goeie bedoelings,
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were in conflict with my taste buds.
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was in konflik met my smaaksintuig.
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And I'd commit to doing it later,
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Ek sou besluit om dit later te doen.
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and not surprisingly, later never came.
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En snaaks genoeg, het later nooit gekom nie.
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Sound familiar?
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Klink dit bekend?
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So I wondered,
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Ek wonder toe,
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might there be a third solution?
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is daar dalk ’n derde oplossing?
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And I thought about it, and I came up with one.
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Ek het daaroor gedink en met een voorendag gekom.
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I've been doing it for the last year, and it's great.
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Ek doen dit al die afgelope jaar, en dis fantasties.
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It's called weekday veg.
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Ek noem dit: weeksdag groentjie.
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The name says it all:
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Die naam sê alles.
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Nothing with a face Monday through Friday.
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Niks met ’n gesig nie, Maandag tot Vrydag.
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On the weekend, your choice.
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Oor die naweek, jou keuse.
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Simple.
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Eenvoudig.
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If you want to take it to the next level,
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Sou jy dit verder wou vat,
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remember, the major culprits
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onthou die hoof sondebokke,
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in terms of environmental damage and health
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in terme van omgewingskade en gesondheid,
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are red and processed meats.
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is rooi- en verwerkte vleis.
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So you want to swap those out
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So jy kan dit uitruil
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with some good, sustainably harvested fish.
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vir goeie, volhoubare vis.
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It's structured,
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Dis gestruktureerd,
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so it ends up being simple to remember,
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so dis maklik om te onthou.
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and it's okay to break it here and there.
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En dis aanvaarbaar om nou-en-dan af te wyk.
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After all, cutting five days a week
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Vyf dae ’n week sny immers
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is cutting 70 percent of your meat intake.
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jou vleisinname met 70 persent.
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The program has been great, weekday veg.
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Weeksdag groentjie het goed gewerk sover.
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My footprint's smaller,
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My impak is kleiner,
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I'm lessening pollution,
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ek verminder besoedeling.
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I feel better about the animals,
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Ek voel beter oor die diere.
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I'm even saving money.
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Ek spaar selfs geld.
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Best of all, I'm healthier,
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Beste van alles: ek's gesonder,
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I know that I'm going to live longer,
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ek weet ek gaan langer leef,
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and I've even lost a little weight.
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en ek het selfs ’n bietjie gewig verloor.
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So, please ask yourselves,
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Vra jouself dus af,
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for your health,
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vir jou gesondheid,
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for your pocketbook,
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vir jou beursie,
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for the environment, for the animals:
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vir die omgewing, vir die diere,
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What's stopping you from giving weekday veg a shot?
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wat verhoed jou om weeksdag groentjie te probeer?
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After all, if all of us
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As ons almal
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ate half as much meat,
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helfte soveel vleis geëet het
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it would be like half of us
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sou dit immers wees asof die helfte van ons
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were vegetarians.
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vegetariërs was.
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Thank you.
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Dankie.
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(Applause)
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(applous)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Graham Hill - JournalistGraham Hill is the founder of TreeHugger.com and LifeEdited; he travels the world to tell stories of sustainability and minimalism. He tweets at @GHill.
Why you should listen
Graham Hill is the founder of LifeEdited, dedicated to helping people design their lives for more happiness with less stuff. When he started the company in 2010, it brought the ideas of his previous project, the eco-blog and vlog TreeHugger.com, into design and architecture. (The TreeHugger team joined the Discovery Communications network as a part of their Planet Green initiative, and Hill now makes appearances on the green-oriented cable channel.)
Before Treehugger, Hill studied architecture and design (his side business is making those cool ceramic Greek coffee cups). His other company, ExceptionLab, is devoted to creating sustainable prototypes -- think lamps made from recycled blinds and ultra-mod planters that are also air filters.
Hill is the author of Weekday Vegetarian, available as a TED Book on Amazon and Apple's iBooks.
More profile about the speakerBefore Treehugger, Hill studied architecture and design (his side business is making those cool ceramic Greek coffee cups). His other company, ExceptionLab, is devoted to creating sustainable prototypes -- think lamps made from recycled blinds and ultra-mod planters that are also air filters.
Hill is the author of Weekday Vegetarian, available as a TED Book on Amazon and Apple's iBooks.
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