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Graham Hill: Why I'm a weekday vegetarian
Graham Hill: Pse jam nje ditejave vegjetarian?
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Te gjithe i dime argumentet se te qenit vegjetarian eshte me mire per mjedisin dhe per kafshet-- por ne kulturen e mishngrenesit, mund te jete e veshtire te besh ndryshimin. Graham Hill ka nje sygjerim te fuqishem dhe pragmatik.
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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Rreth nje vit me pare,
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I asked myself a question:
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i bera vetes nje pyetje:
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"Knowing what I know,
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"Duke ditur ato qe di
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why am I not a vegetarian?"
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pse nuk jam vegjetarian?"
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After all, I'm one of the green guys:
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Ne fund te fundit jam nje nga ata tipat ekologjik:
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I grew up with hippie parents in a log cabin.
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Jam rritur me prinder hippie ne nje kasolle me trungje.
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I started a site called TreeHugger --
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U bera nismetar i nje faqeje interneti te quajtur PerqafuesPemesh--
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I care about this stuff.
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Mua me interesojne keto gjera.
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I knew that eating a mere hamburger a day
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E dija se duke ngrene nje hamburger ne dite
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can increase my risk of dying by a third.
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mund te rris rrezikun e vdekjes me nje te trete.
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Cruelty: I knew that the 10 billion
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Mizore: E dija se 10 miliard
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animals we raise each year for meat
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kafshe qe ne rrisim cdo vit per mish
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are raised in factory farm conditions
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rriten nen kushtet e fermave fabrikuese
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that we, hypocritically, wouldn't even consider
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qe ne, ne menyre hipokrite, as nuk do e merrnim ne konsiderate
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for our own cats, dogs and other pets.
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per macet, qente ose kafshe te tjera te cilat na perkasin.
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Environmentally, meat, amazingly,
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Nga pikepamja e mjedisit, mishi, cuditerisht,
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causes more emissions
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shkakton me shume emetime
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than all of transportation combined:
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se sa i gjithe kombinimi i transporteve:
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cars, trains, planes, buses, boats, all of it.
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makina, trena, avione, autobuza, varka, te gjitha bashke.
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And beef production uses 100 times the water
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Dhe prodhimi i mishit te lopes perdor 100 here me shume uje
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that most vegetables do.
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se sa gjithe perimet.
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I also knew that I'm not alone.
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Gjithashtu e dija se nuk jam vetem.
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We as a society
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Ne si shoqeri
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are eating twice as much meat
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ushqehemi me mish dy here me shume
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as we did in the 50s.
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se sa ne vitet 50-te.
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So what was once the special little side treat
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Pra ajo cka dikur ishte nje kenaqesi e vogel dhe e vecante
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now is the main, much more regular.
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tashme eshte kryesore, shume me rregullisht.
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So really, any of these angles
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Pra realisht, cilido nga keto pikepamje
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should have been enough to convince me to go vegetarian.
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duhet te ishte mjaftueshem per te me bindur qe te kthehem ne nje vegjetarian.
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Yet, there I was -- chk, chk, chk --
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Po, ja ku isha --cek, cek, cek--
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tucking into a big old steak.
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duke u palosur ne nje biftek te madh.
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So why was I stalling?
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Pra pse po ndaloja?
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I realized that what I was being pitched
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Kuptova se ajo qe une isha duke u larguar
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was a binary solution.
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ishte nje zgjidhje dyjore.
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It was either
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Ishte ose
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you're a meat eater or you're a vegetarian,
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ti je nje mishngrenes ose je nje vegjetarian,
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and I guess I just wasn't quite ready.
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dhe me sa duket nuk isha ende gati.
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Imagine your last hamburger.
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Imagjinoni hamburgerin tuaj te fundit.
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(Laughter)
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(te qeshura)
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So my common sense,
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Pra mendimi im praktik,
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my good intentions,
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qellimet e mia te mira,
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were in conflict with my taste buds.
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ishin ne konflikt me shijet e mia.
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And I'd commit to doing it later,
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U angazhova per ta bere me vone,
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and not surprisingly, later never came.
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por "me vone" nuk erdhi kurre.
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Sound familiar?
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E keni degjuar me pare?
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So I wondered,
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Pra pyeta veten,
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might there be a third solution?
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a mund te kete nje zgjidhje te trete?
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And I thought about it, and I came up with one.
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E mendova dhe perfundova ne nje.
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I've been doing it for the last year, and it's great.
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Po e bej keto vitet e fundit, dhe eshte fantastike.
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It's called weekday veg.
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Quhet dita jave vegjetariane.
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The name says it all:
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Emri i thote te gjitha:
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Nothing with a face Monday through Friday.
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Asgje me fytyre nga e hena ne te premte.
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On the weekend, your choice.
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Ne fundjave zgjedhja eshte e juaja.
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Simple.
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E thjeshte.
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If you want to take it to the next level,
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Nese doni te kaloni ne nivelin tjeter,
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remember, the major culprits
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mbani mend keqberesit kryesor
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in terms of environmental damage and health
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ne termat e demtimit te mjedisit dhe shendetit
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are red and processed meats.
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dhe te mishit kuq te perpunuar.
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So you want to swap those out
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Pra mendoni ti shkembeni ato
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with some good, sustainably harvested fish.
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me pak peshk te mirekultivuar.
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It's structured,
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Eshte e strukturuar,
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so it ends up being simple to remember,
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dhe perfundon e lehte per tu mbajtur mend,
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and it's okay to break it here and there.
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dhe eshte ne rregull sikur ta shkelesh tek tuk.
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After all, cutting five days a week
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Ne fund te fundit, duke hequr pese dite ne jave
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is cutting 70 percent of your meat intake.
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do te thote te ulesh 70 perqind te konsumit te mishit.
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The program has been great, weekday veg.
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Programi ka qene fantastik, ditet e javes vegjetariane.
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My footprint's smaller,
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Gjurma ime eshte e vogel,
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I'm lessening pollution,
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po e pakesoj ndotjen,
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I feel better about the animals,
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ndihem me mire per kafshet,
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I'm even saving money.
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madje po kursej dhe para.
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Best of all, I'm healthier,
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Por mbi te gjitha, jam me i shendetshem,
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I know that I'm going to live longer,
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e di qe do jetoj me gjate,
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and I've even lost a little weight.
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madje kam humbur dhe pak peshe.
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So, please ask yourselves,
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Ndaj ju lutem pyesni veten tuaj,
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for your health,
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per shendetin tuaj,
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for your pocketbook,
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per kuleten tuaj,
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for the environment, for the animals:
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per mjedisin, per kafshet:
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What's stopping you from giving weekday veg a shot?
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Cfare ju ndalon per te provuar diten e javes vegjetariane?
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After all, if all of us
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Ne fund te fundit, nese te gjithe ne
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ate half as much meat,
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ushqeheshim me gjysmen e mishit
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it would be like half of us
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do ishte sikur gjysem nga ne
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were vegetarians.
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te ishim vegjetarian.
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Thank you.
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Faleminderit.
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(Applause)
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(Duartrokitje)
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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