Saving the planet one meal at a time
<p>Sandra Montani, far left, and her husband, Mark, dig into the vegetarian and vegan potluck fare Sunday at the Sandpoint Community Hall. For Montani, the motivation for investigating vegetarianism was economic due the rising cost of meat. “There’s a lot of different things you can do” with vegetarian meals, she said. (Photo by LEE HUGHES)</p>
SANDPOINT — Could your food be harming you? Could it be harming the planet? It’s likely, according to one local group. But through informed food choices, they claim those negative effects can help heal both ourselves and the planet.
That was the takeaway at a regular meeting of the Sandpoint Vegetarians at the Sandpoint Community Hall Sunday: avoiding meat in one’s diet offers a multitude of benefits to body, mind, soul, and even the environment. It was also an opportunity to build community while sharing vegetarian and vegan potluck.
The loose-knit, informal group of meatless omnivores gather monthly to eat home-cooked vegetarian and vegan fare, and to get together and spread the gospel of their chosen lifestyle with those who share — or might be curious about — their culturally divergent culinary approach to eating. Everyone is welcome, with but one restriction.
“We ask that they don’t bring any dead animals to the potluck,” Sandpoint Vegetarians co-founder Eric Ridgway said of the home cooked food attendees bring.
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