Before the start of summer, try this hearty traditional Irish dish with a vegetarian spin. Shepherd’s Pie is the perfect comfort food to satisfy large groups of hungry people. There are so many varieties of potatoes, all of them high in potassium, vitamin C, B6, and fiber. Potatoes are more nutritious when eaten with the skin on, plus it will make the dish look more appealing. Take your pick of potatoes and enjoy!

Ingredients:

1 package veggie ground (see product below)
1 large onion, diced
1 clove garlic, diced
1 ¼ cups ketchup
1 Tsp. soy sauce
1 Tsp. olive oil
1 Tsp. each of basil, oregano, thyme
salt & pepper (to taste)
1 cup frozen peas and/or carrots
1 cup frozen corn

Mashed Potato Topping:
6 large potatoes
3/4 cup plain soymilk
4 Tbs. margarine
salt & pepper (to taste)

Directions:

1. Sauté onions in olive oil until translucent; stir in garlic and veggie ground.
2. Add remaining ingredients; mix well and simmer.
3. Cut potatoes into small pieces and boil until tender.
4. Drain boiling water and add soymilk, margarine, salt and pepper; mash everything together until mixture is smooth.
5. Pour veggie ground mixture into a greased baking dish; top with mashed potatoes.
6. Bake at 350 F for 30 minutes. For the last 5 minutes, turn oven on broil to brown the top.
7. Cool for 5-10 minutes before serving.

Staff Recipe! This recipe is recommended by Robert LeMar, FARM’s Graphic Designer. Share your recipe with us. Send an e-mail to recipes@meatoutmondays.org.

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Life can be flavorful and healthy -- you just have to know were to find the right food to enhance it. Lightlife Foods offers ground soy-based beef with a satisfying, savory taste… and it’s low-fat too. These ready-to-use crumbles can be used for burgers, pizza, tacos, stuffed peppers, shepherd’s pie, and much more.

Lightlife believes in the relationship between the food we eat and the health of the planet. By providing plant protein in nutritious, 100% natural veg products, they have enhanced people’s health and well-being for over twenty years. Lightlife supports numerous charitable causes, contributing a percentage of their profits to organizations that work to protect children, human rights, the environment, economic justice and peace throughout the world.

For more information about this and other products, visit www.Lightlife.com!

Consuming a variety of vegetables, including potatoes, (cooked in ways other than frying) has been associated with a reduced risk of developing Type II Diabetes. An Australian study recently published in the American Journal of Epidemiology investigated the association between a variety of dietary patterns and Type II Diabetes in a 4-year study of 36,787 adults.

The results indicated that a dietary pattern characterized by meats and fatty foods was associated with increased diabetes risk while a dietary pattern characterized by a variety of salad and cooked vegetables (including non-fried potatoes) was associated with a decreased risk. The study adds to the growing body of evidence supporting the health benefits of a diet rich in fruits and vegetables.

To read the full article, click here!

Maneesha Deckha is a vegetarian law professor at the University of Victoria in Canada. She has created a seminar for upper-year law students about Canadian justice and animal rights, the first of its kind in BC. Deckha has a long-standing interest in the issue, and presents the relationship between culture and law, and how our cultural attitudes toward animals have shaped legal protection -- or the lack thereof -- for them. "I ask students to think about the cultural dimension, to think about what the law says, and to think about the property status of animals and how that might be a problem," Maneesha said. "But if they're not property, what would be an alternative to that? Should they have rights? Or if not rights, should there be some legal provision for stewardship or guardianship?"

Her students analyze different cultural approaches to animals and how those approaches have affected legal protection for them. They also look at parallels between the historical denial of legal rights for women and indigenous peoples with the current denial of legal rights for animals.

To read a full interview with Maneesha, click here!

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