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Graham Hill: Why I'm a weekday vegetarian
Graham Hill：身为一个周间素食者
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我们都知道吃素帮助环境、保护动物…… 但在今日的肉食文化中，要改变着实不易。Graham Hill 有个建议……
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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大概在一年前左右
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I asked myself a question:
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我问了我自己一个问题
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"Knowing what I know,
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”我明明知道这些资讯，
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why am I not a vegetarian?"
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为什么我不是个素食者？“
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After all, I'm one of the green guys:
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毕竟我支持环保，热爱绿概念
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I grew up with hippie parents in a log cabin.
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和嬉皮父母在小木屋里长大
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I started a site called TreeHugger --
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我开了一个叫 Treehugger 的网站 － 抱树网
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I care about this stuff.
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我很关心这些东西
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I knew that eating a mere hamburger a day
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我知道光是每天吃一个汉堡
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can increase my risk of dying by a third.
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就能增加三分之一的死亡几率
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Cruelty: I knew that the 10 billion
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我知道每年我们养殖100亿动物
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animals we raise each year for meat
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就为了他们身上的肉
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are raised in factory farm conditions
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而这些动物生活的那种工厂环境
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that we, hypocritically, wouldn't even consider
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是我们根本无法想象自己的
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for our own cats, dogs and other pets.
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猫，或是宠物可以居住的
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Environmentally, meat, amazingly,
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就环境来说，肉品排放的二氧化碳
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causes more emissions
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神奇的
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than all of transportation combined:
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比所有交通工具的排放量还大
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cars, trains, planes, buses, boats, all of it.
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汽车、火车
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And beef production uses 100 times the water
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制造肉所使用的水
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that most vegetables do.
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是蔬菜的一百倍
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I also knew that I'm not alone.
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我也知道我并不孤单
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We as a society
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整个社会
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are eating twice as much meat
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现在我们所吃的肉
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as we did in the 50s.
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足足比50年代多了两倍
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So what was once the special little side treat
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曾经我们当作特别的小食
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now is the main, much more regular.
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现在却成了我们的日常主食
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So really, any of these angles
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说真的，以任何角度来说
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should have been enough to convince me to go vegetarian.
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都应该足以让我成为素食者
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Yet, there I was -- chk, chk, chk --
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但我还是嗯，嗯，嗯
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tucking into a big old steak.
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被一块巨大的牛排包围着
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So why was I stalling?
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我到底在迟疑什么？
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I realized that what I was being pitched
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我发觉那是因为这是因为
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was a binary solution.
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我把它当作一个二分法的问题
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It was either
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你需要决定
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you're a meat eater or you're a vegetarian,
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你到底是吃肉还是吃素
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and I guess I just wasn't quite ready.
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我想我实在没做好心理准备
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Imagine your last hamburger.
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想象最后的一个汉堡
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(Laughter)
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（笑声）
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So my common sense,
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于是乎我的常识
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my good intentions,
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我的用意良善
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were in conflict with my taste buds.
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和我的味蕾产生了矛盾
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And I'd commit to doing it later,
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我总是想着之后再做
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and not surprisingly, later never came.
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之后却永远不会来
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Sound familiar?
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听起来很熟悉吗？
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So I wondered,
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于是我想着，
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might there be a third solution?
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或许应该有第三种选择？
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And I thought about it, and I came up with one.
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经过思考以后，我想出了一个
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I've been doing it for the last year, and it's great.
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去年我便这么实行，感觉很好
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It's called weekday veg.
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叫做周间素食
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The name says it all:
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事如其名
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Nothing with a face Monday through Friday.
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礼拜一到五不吃任何有脸的东西
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On the weekend, your choice.
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周末，自由选择
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Simple.
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如此简单
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If you want to take it to the next level,
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如果你想更进一步
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remember, the major culprits
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记得红肉和经处理的肉类
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in terms of environmental damage and health
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是今日破坏环境和健康的
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are red and processed meats.
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罪魁祸首
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So you want to swap those out
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如果你想要和它们说不
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with some good, sustainably harvested fish.
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你也可以改为食用一些以不破坏环境平衡养殖的鱼类
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It's structured,
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有了这样的规律
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so it ends up being simple to remember,
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就比较容易记得
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and it's okay to break it here and there.
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偶尔犯戒也没关系
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After all, cutting five days a week
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毕竟五天不吃肉
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is cutting 70 percent of your meat intake.
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是减少七成的肉
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The program has been great, weekday veg.
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我很喜欢周间素食这个点子
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My footprint's smaller,
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我的碳足迹小了
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I'm lessening pollution,
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我减低了污染
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I feel better about the animals,
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我对动物感觉好些了
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I'm even saving money.
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甚至还存了一点钱
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Best of all, I'm healthier,
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最棒的是，我更健康了
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I know that I'm going to live longer,
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我知道我会更长命
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and I've even lost a little weight.
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甚至还瘦了一些
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So, please ask yourselves,
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于是，请大家今天自问
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for your health,
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为了你的健康
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for your pocketbook,
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你的财富
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for the environment, for the animals:
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为了环境和动物
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What's stopping you from giving weekday veg a shot?
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为什么不试试做个周间的素食者呢？
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After all, if all of us
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如果我们所有人都少吃
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ate half as much meat,
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一半的肉
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it would be like half of us
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那就像我们之中有一半人
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were vegetarians.
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是素食者一样。
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Thank you.
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谢谢大家
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(Applause)
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（掌声）
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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