"The idea is simple: two people decide to team up, each
halves their consumption of meat and fish and therefore the net
effect is one more vegetarian," said Katharina Rimpler, who came up
with the idea.
"In this way, they can do something good without completely
cutting out meat from their diet," said Rimpler, from the
Federation of German Vegetarians (VEBU).
Germany has recently been rocked by a food scandal after the
potentially hazardous chemical dioxin was found in eggs and some
meat products.
A demonstration in Berlin in favour of reforms to agriculture
policy drew some 22,000 people, organisers said.
Germany has around six million vegetarians, above average in
Europe, said a VEBU spokesman.