Eating meatless meals will help improve your health and benefit the environment!  It is a well known scientific fact that most chronic diseases are rooted in poor nutritional habits.  Eating more plant-based foods is an important practice in disease prevention. Additionally, eating plant-based foods will improve the environment.  According to information on the goveg.com website (see http://www.goveg.com/environment.asp), "If every American skipped one meal of chicken per week and substituted vegetarian foods instead, the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than a half-million cars off U.S. roads."