Cape Town goes meat free

Posted on 10 April 2010

Cape Town has become the first city in Africa to officially endorse 1 meat-free day a week.

In a unanimous vote taken in council chambers on 6 April 2010, the City’s Health Portfolio Committee agreed to endorse the call by Compassion in World Farming (South Africa) for 1 meat-free day a week. Said Tozie Zokufa, South African representative for Compassion in World Farming: “It is a triumph. We started negotiating with the City Health Committee last December. Their decision yesterday to work with us on this issue is not only a triumph for human health, but also for the planet and animal welfare too.

We believe that Cape Town may be the second city in the world to have officially endorsed 1 meat-free day a week, following on the heels of Ghent, in Belgium.”

The date of the official launch of Cape Town city’s one-meat-free-day-a-week, in cooperation with Compassion in World Farming (South Africa), will be announced shortly.

Courtesy of Compassion in World Farming