Fasting = Green

Japanese scientists have discovered that producing 2.2 lbs of beef for the table expends as much greenhouse gas as driving three hours in a car at 50 mph. So not only are the meatless days of Orthodoxy good for your body and your soul but the environment as well.

Goes to show that a lot of those rules we modern think are relics of those repressive days of yesteryear actually make a lot of sense.