There are chances of either you or someone you know are vegetarian. What would happen if all of us in the world would suddenly become a vegetarian? What effect will it have on our lives and the planet as a whole?
And the worldwide rate of vegetarianism is fairly low, ranging from about 4-5% in the US and Canada to a little over 30% in India. As a result, there are currently about 20 billion chickens, 1.5 billion cows, over a billion sheep and nearly a billion pigs in the world. Without any meat-eating humans to provide a market, whole herds of domestic animals would disappear. And this would free up vast quantities of land. About 33 million square kms of land are used for pasture - an area about the size of Africa. And that’s not even counting the land used to grow crops exclusively for animal feed.
Some of it would be needed for the increased amount of vegetable crops, but much of the land currently used as pasture is actually too dry to grow crops. Without humans adding artificial nutrients, this land could turn to desert, but if properly managed, it’s possible that some farmland would return to its natural state of grassland or forests, which could help counteract global climate change. After all, the loss of CO2-absorbing trees cleared for agriculture is a major reason why global levels of CO2 are going up.
Cows and other grazers also affect our climate through large amounts of methane production, which has 25 times more potential planet-warming power than CO2. Combined with the loss of forests and other effects, livestock production is responsible for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, which is more than all the world’s planes, trains and automobiles put together. In fact, many scientists believe that reducing meat consumption may be one of the best strategies for managing climate change.
A vegetarian diet would also greatly reduce water consumption; around 70% of global freshwater consumption is used in agriculture. It takes 15,000 litres to make a kilogram of beef, 6,000 L for pork and 4,000 L for chicken - Compare this with 1,600 L for cereal crops, 900 L for fruit and 300 L for garden vegetables. Of course a kilogram of meat packs many more calories than an equivalent weight of fruit, but even if you compare the ratio of water per calorie of available food energy, beef is still 5 times more water intensive than fruit, 7 times more than veggies and 20 times more than cereal.
So are there any downsides to a vegetarian diet? Well, we’d be left without a cheap source for many byproducts of livestock, like leather from animal hides, or animal fats which are used in cosmetics, candles and detergents. And while vegetable based alternatives do exist, their production would need to increase, meaning more land dedicated to growing crops and less restored to its natural state.
A more complicated fact is that raising and processing animals is a full-time job for more than 1 billion people - most of whom are small-scale farmers in the developing world. While some may be able to move to producing milk or eggs, or even growing vegetable crops, many would be faced with their way of life becoming obsolete.
Of course, any increase in vegetarianism is likely to be a gradual process rather than a sudden cut-off. And, surprisingly, the trends are actually in the opposite direction; in places like India and China, people are becoming wealthier, and as a result, consuming more meat which effectively cancels out the declines we see in other countries.
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No its not possible. I love to eat meat and i won't give it up. Call me an egoist...
Yes, it is possible if we all change our way of thinking and lifestyle. Also, if all the animals were dying due to a rare animal disease, you would be bound to give it up (meat).
My piggy girls made me vegetarian :)
Ohhh you got me like this!
A fellow vegetarian here, struggling to find my favorite veg ingredients as I travel the world. All the love for you and your piggy girls! <3
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How cute! oink oink :)
Cows would be very happy
If the whole world went vegetarian, cows would go extinct.
If animals could talk...
Lol agree! There would be no forest if carnivores don't exist!
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Hi, I joined Steemit less than a week ago and have read many articles throughout the week in order to get a flavour for what it's all about. This is by far my favourite article so far. I'm a vegetarian and I'm bringing my children up as vegetarian (until they are old enough to make their own minds up.) For me, it has always been a very personal thing; I simply feel better as a vegetarian than I did as a meat-eater. I feel lighter and healthier and I don't feel like my body 'needs' meat. I have never felt the need to ram my thoughts and opinions down other peoples' throats and I would never expect people to turn veggie just because I did.
However, reading about the over-all, global effects of vegetarian-ism is super-interesting and, in fact, up-lifting. At the end of the day, if nothing else, before people make their decision about being vegetarian or meat-eater, they should at least be informed. Informed about where the meat has come from and the processes that it has been through. Ignorance on that subject is something that I find somewhat annoying.
Thanks so much for this post :-)
Then you might want to make an effort to fix your ignorance. Healthy vegetarianism is partially achievable only with artificial supplements. There is an astonishing amount of information on this subject. Please inform yourself, without the appeals to emotion. Forcing vegetarianism on children damages long term health.
Please look into albumen and production of parotid hormone, vitamins B12 and K2, and fat metabolism, among others. Vegans and vegetarians often experience a short term boost to their health, but most will see an eventual decline in the health of their teeth, bones and tissues, especially children.
This is not even to mention the need of having large numbers of roaming herbivores to maintain the land against desertification. The meat that has negative health effects is highly processed or production raised 'feed lot' meats. Pasture raised meats do not have the same negative effects as do GMO grain fed, antibiotic adulterated, hormone injected, feed efficiency drug fattened, and contaminated by confinement in close contact with their own wastes. Simply saying meat is not healthy is a vast oversimplification that ignores a huge amount of knowledge of health and the environment.
I don't think that either the scientific nor medical communities can actually agree about anything in respect of diet. One minute something is good for you, the next it's killing you. People have to make their own, informed choices and do what they think is best for their children. Our Paediatrician saw us shopping in the Supermarket one day - he was with a friend. He introduced us to her and said "these are patients of mine", referring to the kids and then said "but I never see them - ever!" Gesturing to the shopping trolley, full of fruit & vegetables, he added "that's why!"
I'm not vegetarian, but I fully support my kids not eating meat. If, once they're a little older, they wish to do so, then I hope they choose ethically-raised, good quality produce. Right now, they pass every health check with flying colours & eat a fantastic range of vegetables. Many of their friends won't touch anything that isn't fizzy, fried, processed - least of all the green stuff :) Perhaps better to begin this way. The way I see it, obesity is a much bigger issue for overall health - especially children and, strangely, most vegetarian children fare much better in that respect.
Our good friend and neighbour raises cattle. He's exceptionally concerned for the environment and recycles the manure into a methane plant. They're only fed his own-grown, organic grain & hay. But, he has a huge problem with water. In the driest early summer in living memory in Italy, the well that supplies their drinking water has run dry. He's had to connect to a 'town supply'. Their demand he says is more than 40 litres per day per animal. The crops he grows to feed them need equally vast quantities of water. He says that the process of raising animals such as these is anything but environmentally friendly - regardless of his best efforts.
Hey there, @lifeworship. Just wanted to point out that it's the vegan diet, not vegetarian (which can include consumption of dairy, eggs, and sometimes even fish), that may lack certain nutritional elements such as B12 and DHA/EPA. However, our bodies produce all the K2 we need from our dietary K1 (e.g., what we get from kale), so no one needs to supplement with K2 as long as they eat enough plants. Regarding DHA/EPA, it is possible we can make all we need from eating things like walnuts and flaxseeds, but to be safe, vegans can supplement with an algae-derived (NOT fish-derived) EPA/DHA. Unfortunately, fish is too laced with heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants and saturated fat to call it a health food. And @andyturner, the only reason we're confused about nutrition is that the big food companies and USDA keep us that way, figuring that as long as we're confused, we'll keep eating salt, sugar, fat, and animal products. None of those things are healthy, but they do make food companies lots of $$. Let me know if you would like scientific references for more info, and I will post links.
Yeah, I am a vegetarian since my school days. I was hospitalized for a month and since then I opt not to eat meat or sea food and even eggs. You always get wonderful options to eat around your place. I love Thai, Chinese, Indian, Peruvian, Italian, Mediterranean and Mexican cuisine. The biggest benefit you get is being healthy. Health is wealth, indeed.
Interesting topic you have shared..tanx
Being vegan is not very good for your body. Most people can't even last a month because they don't get enough protein & other vitamins & minerals. Animal protein is far superior to vegetable protein. Then, you have people eating more grains which are even worse for you. There's been countless # of former vegans who have gone back to eating meat again because they've destroyed their bodies.
Life feeds on life. That being said, I'm all about ethical treatment of animals & am strongly against the commercial farming culture. I just think people need to know what they're really doing to their bodies before they start playing doctor without all the information.
come on...that is not true! Don't spread the things you dont know realy about! There are on youtube alot of people eating vegan diets and live good lifes (Jeff Berwick - jeck him out on youtube, ralph smarts - infinite waters, VEGAN GAINS, ...and alot more!)
Well, sure, some have destroyed their bodys, but only because they tried,.... you CAN TRY TO BUILD A BUSINESS AND FAIL.... so, you stay employed because it does not work? Think again what you are saying.
Life feeds on life... you body ist mostly water, so water rich foods, good proteins and a great meal rotaion will give you all that you need.
Well the Information is now out there.
'Come on' is not an argument. Appeal to youtube is the wackiest logical fallacy so far. Some people do not have extreme, short term, problems with vegan/vegetarian diets, and some Africans and Indians have a traditional basis of adaptation for these diets being suitable for their physiology, but to state that these are suitable diets for all humans is unsupportable, and dangerous to the health of those who are not traditionally adapted.
For the sake of reason, please learn how to spell if you want people to take you seriously enough to address your arguments. Accurate communication is the basis required for the use of reason.
Animal fats are also superior to vegetable fats.
That's very true~! Not to mention, the healing that goes on with things like bone broth. The amino acids from just chicken soup boiled in a pot all day can knock out a virus. People are doing real damage to their bodies. Just search on Google people: "why I'm no longer vegan" it's a sham.
Thanks for your comments. Bone broth is so beneficial it can almost not be believed, except that the obvious results are undeniable.
Even if I did not have google, I could simply stand in front of a mirror and relate to myself the details of why I, personally, no longer restrict animal products from my diet, fragile teeth, fragile bones, hair loss, cancer, another cancer, multiple food sensitivities, et cetera, et cetera. Since I have begun to include organ meats from healthy sources, fish, and ghee in my diet I no longer have any of these. The cancers did take a little extra effort in the form of a temporary alkaline diet and tuned electrical pulses, but it has been more than five years with no reappearance of any of it, except for a lingering sensitivity to nightshades.
I can not, personally, recommend a long term alkaline diet, but in the short term it worked magnificently.
The "benefits" of bone broth is one of the fallacies that needs to stop. The most benefit comes from the veggies in the broth themselves.
So, you don't even actually know how bone broth works, how it's made, or what's in it. That's great, no really. So regale us with your superior knowledge about how good for you, the vegetables are, that don't even have bones, so they're not in the bone broth, unless you are making soup.
Am I off base here? Anyone?
It's a joke, see?
Agreed. There's a reason they call that "comfort food" or "soul food" from the south. It's because it heals you.
Being a vegan is possible and is good for anyone. That was how the world was made at first. There are ways to get protein other than meat, example peas, beans, etc. not to mention the other food groups.
I'm terribly sorry, not really, but you're going to need to look into the subject a bit more. Making flat, blanket statements with no proof is usually inadvisable. "good for everyone" is a ridiculous statement, and is completely unsupportable.
I just would encourage everybody who's considering being a vegan to check out Lierre Keith who really went all into being a vegan, listen to her story & countless others. It's not all it's cracked up to be.
What about leaving everyone to their individual choice on what they want?
We are omnivores- eat a mix of plant and animal. There is a reason food pyramid exists.
BTW, people in Burundi eat a diet that is 95%+ plant based and are one of the lowest meat consumers per capita in the world. However, Burundi is one of the most de-forested countries in the world. Suggesting that if the world become vegetarian we will have a green world around us is a fallacy.
I think we are all well aware of the fact that we DO have the choice about what we eat. This article is certainly not suggesting that we all become vegetarian. It's a fact-filled article and I think it's very important that we have more knowledge about vegetarianism in general. The more knowledge we have, the better informed we are to make the right decision for ourselves. If, with more knowledge, people still choose meat then that's absolutely fine but being informed is important.
I have, in previous posts, questioned and demonstrated that many of the 'facts' in this post are based in fallacy and obfuscation. The main reason for most people to learn about vege lifestyles is to know why to avoid them.
amen
The more information that people have, the more likely they will choose to eat healthily raised meat, if they have not already damaged their brain with poor dietary choices.
Thank you for the Burundi info, It is a valid argument. It must also be considered, the part meat consumption plays in the success of the human organism in the context of success of their culture. Many of the more successful cultures are consumers of healthy animals. There is also evidence to suggest that animal consumption in human evolution has been a driving factor in the development of the human brain, an energy hungry, organ that is composed of and fueled in large part by consumption of healthy animal fat.
Everyone should be free to make their own choices. They should also be able to have access to the information that will enable them to make wise choices, should this be their desire.
There's vegetarian and non-vegetarian and there's also a big difference eating huge amounts of meat every day vs. once or twice a week.
I used to be vegie but now I eat meat in moderation, and I try to obtain it from alternate sourced - ethically farmed, or hunted or fished by myself or a friend - that way you know it's had a natural life untainted by modern agricultural practices which I don't always trust.
"A vegetarian diet would also greatly reduce water consumption; around 70% of global freshwater consumption is used in agriculture."
No problem. Water doesn't dissapear. Rain will bring it back.
"It takes 15,000 litres to make a kilogram of beef, 6,000 L for pork and 4,000 L for chicken"
This is nonsens wen you breed the animals naturally they do cost little water sinds the animals eat gras they don't drink much. Further, they can drink rainwater. Ofcourse you should not give animals cereals.
" - Compare this with 1,600 L for cereal crops, 900 L for fruit and 300 L for garden vegetables."
Nutritional value of vegetables and fruits are not comparable to that of meat.
"Of course a kilogram of meat packs many more calories than an equivalent weight of fruit, but even if you compare the ratio of water per calorie of available food energy, beef is still 5 times more water intensive than fruit, 7 times more than veggies and 20 times more than cereal."
Unfortunately, your body is unable to extract the same amount of energy from vegetables as from meat. You should eat a wheelbarrow vegetable to get the same amount of food as a kilo of meat. In addition, vegetable products are very poorly digestible to humans.
Bravo! This is not even to mention that if we continue to use industrial farming techniques that we have only 50 years of topsoil left. Feeding grain to animals to feed to humans is the most suicidal thing we could be doing as a species, next to killing the bees, and feeding industrially produced grains to humans.
Excelente, yo en realidad creo que todos debemos regresar a la dieta original, todo verde y frutas
Interesting first paragraph about how so many billions of animals are contributing to the number of vegetarians in the earth's population. It really makes you wonder about the grand skeem of things. I mean, what's more important, perserving the animals who eat the worlds vegetation, or perserving the vegetation who gets eaten by humans and/or animals. Makes you wonder what the overall purpose of it really is. I also wanted to mention that you made a nice collage of the continents with the grapes or beans, or whatever they are. Your post was thought provoking, and made me hungry and thirsty. Lol!
Men think it right to eat animals, because they are led to believe that God sanctions it. This is untrue. No matter in what books it may be written that it is not sinful to slay animals and to eat them, it is more clearly written in the heart of man than in any books that animals are to be pitied and should not be slain any more than human beings. We all know this if we do not choke the voice of our conscience.
What complete nonsense. Appeal to emotion does not change the facts. If you are interested in facts, and not the inside of your own butt, please feel free to ask for further explanation.
Accusing people of eating meat because 'God', and then saying that we 'know' not to eat them because 'feels' is the craziest false dilemma I've seen today. God or mysticism? I wonder how much animal fat deprivation caused that delusion.
Great article, a very interesting topic! It would be wonderful if all humans became organic non GMO vegetarian/vegan
Interesting...the only thing I wonder though, would there be enough water to grow plantbased food for everyone? Seeing as watershortage is already a big issue in many places on earth including regions in first world countries.
It might seem like that on the surface, but you're forgetting the water required to grow the grain for animal feed, and the water the animals themselves require. As pointed out in the article, a plant based diet has a minimal impact on the planet compared to a meat based diet.
Also think of the waste run off into rivers (hormones, antibiotics in animal feed.)
I havent forgotten that, I actually am decently informed on the cattle industry and what it takes to keep that going. However, I have no idea what it would take to cultivate plant based food for the entire world population, hence my question
I'm certainly not an expert on this subject, but as a vegetarian articles on such topics often catch my attention. For example:
Meat production requires a much higher amount of water than vegetables. IME state that to produce 1kg of meat requires between 5,000 and 20,000 litres of water whereas to produce 1kg of wheat requires between 500 and 4,000 litres of water. source
Here's an interesting site that measures water requirements for a number of foods.
http://waterfootprint.org/en/resources/interactive-tools/product-gallery/
Examples:
However, nowadays I bet there are statistics to prove point about any opinion a person wants to defend. I am not claiming to be right on the subject of meat's impact on water consumption, water pollution, and global warming.
For me personally I get by fine without meat, but I'm cool with each person simply deciding if meat is right for him or her. It's been a very long time, but I do remember how good a crisp slice of bacon tastes ;-)
Thank you for informing me a bit, it does indeed seem it would be better to switch to a vegetarian diet, in terms of footprints and depletion of our resources anyway. As you said, there are so many researches and opinions that there are pros and cons everywhere.
Attempting to say meat is bad because industrial agriculture is destructive to life is mere conflation and is obvious to those with the benefit of reason.
I neither consider meat bad nor did I attempt to convey that notion.
Thephotoguide posed the question if we had enough water to switch to a plant based diet, and I responded that as I understand it a meat based diet requires an even higher water usage rate, and it also affect the quality of water (pig farms come to mind.)
I did not intend to put words in your mouth.
It does not require more water if it is properly fed natural foods for herbivores. Grain is not a natural majority food for most, if not all, large herbivores. The arguments in the above post are all founded in fallacy. Grain fed meat is resource intensive, because it is not part of the proper method for growing healthy food animals, nor are hormones or antibiotics. Once this is considered, the water for grain for food animals argument falls completely apart at it's base. From there he moves on to the human caused climate change nonsense which is a non argument as the temperature and CO2 charts have completely diverged in the past few years, demonstrating that correlation does not necessarily indicate causation. The water consumption argument, based on erroneous premises, is unnecessary to refute, as already stated. Finally the health giving properties of vege diets are completely blown away by even a cursory glance at the data already gathered by the biochemists.
We are the humans that we are BECAUSE we eat healthy animal products. The archeological and anthropological records are clear. Herbivores are prey animals. Humans are omnivores.
"Grain fed meat is resource intensive, because it is not part of the proper method for growing healthy food animals, nor are hormones or antibiotics."
I agree and support the kind of system you are describing above. That would be a welcome change from my perspective. It would indeed solve many problems, environmental and ethical.
Unfortunately, that is a very far cry from where we are. The water consumption concerns might be erroneous if your vision were a reality. You've set up an anti-matter straw man. Do a google image search of pig farm pollution to see why some of us don't consider the water issue as unnecessary to refute.
I also agree with you that humans are by nature omnivores. I'm a vegetarian for my own personal ethical reasons, but not vegan. I don't have an issue with eating dairy products, supplementing with whey protein, or eating eggs. I concede that there are some nutritional problem areas for vegetarians, and they need to be aware of them.
On the other hand, the nutrition question you raised is far from settled,
"A 2003 report published in the “American Journal of Clinical Nutrition” analyzed six different studies to try to establish whether vegetarians live longer. The report found that low meat consumption decreases risk of death and increases life expectancy. In fact, research shows that reducing meat consumption can increase your life span by 3.6 years. The same report showed that societies with plant-based diets are more likely to live past 70 years of age." source
Although life expectancy is not a clear measure because vegetarians have healthy live styles and tend not to smoke.
Finally, I realize the strident virtue signaling vegan proponents can be a bit over the top. So can the paleo folks who think all vegetarians are wimps. Just remember, the bad ass silver-back gorilla is full paleo, except for ants, termites, and few bugs :-)
I hope your vision becomes reality, so I upvoted your comment.
There is no anti-matter straw man here. The system as we have it is atrocious, pig farms can be the very worst examples of this. Creating a new system that is equally unworkable is not an answer. The problems seem to stem from the economics and scalability of production animal farming within the environment of the regulatory capture revolving door between regulatory agencies and industry. This, I don't think can be fixed by getting rid of healthy animal products. If we are suggesting getting rid of poisonous animal products then let's do it.
The meat studies that are usually referenced never make a distinction between animals fed their proper diet, and animals fed pesticide laden grains and hormones and antibiotics. Do I think that people who eat poisonously raised animal products will die younger than they would if they avoided poison? Yes, I do. The difference between grass fed and grain fed lies in the omega-6 to omega-3 ratio, as well as the many contaminants that come from feeding industrially raised grain to animals that need grass to be healthy. I haven't found many benefits to consumption of grain by cattle or humans, except they are yummy.
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You also have to take in all the wild game that humans consume as well. Me personally would much rather eat meat that's from the wild such as deer, fish, turkey, rabbit etc. You couldn't just kill off the game or let them over populate neither. There has to be a balance and that balance would be the meat eaters..
I was a vegetarian for 10 years until pregnancy! Veg.ism. would put a strain on produce we would need to help ourselves and grow our own food to avoid mass production.
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Interesting article, am sure it can never happen that everyone turns vegeterian. We have hardcore meat eaters that will never change. Anyways, thank you for sharing :)
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Is it true 55 billion people would exist by 2070 if the world turned vegan?
animals will eat us ? maybe xDDD
wonderful and informative post. If all humans turn vegetarian, we live healthier , longer and more fruitful lives
but is it workable? I dont think so
thanks for sharing this info
I love vegan food, simple, cheap and delicious.
I love this concept!!
That's actually true. Non-vegetarians know all this stuff, but they don't want to agree to it since they don't want to leave the taste of meat I guess.
That's nonsens. I eat meat because i am convinced that it i absolutely necessary to stay healthy as a human. Meat keeps you young. If you eat no meat and eggs you will ultimately suffer from rheumatism, heart disease, cancer, old skin etc.
LOL, what kind of joke is that. The vegetarian diet is self-sifficient in nutrients and vegetarians do not suffer from heart diseases, cancer, old skin etc. more than the non vegetarians. In fact non vegetarians are often found to be fat and prone to many diseases, in comparison to vegetarians. My whole family is vegetarian from past many generations. Nobody is weak in our family or with any other bone or skin related diseases. The only advantage meat diet gives you is quick proteins and some other nutrients. And these are available in vegetarian diet also, but in a little less amounts. In the end, whichever diet you chose, you gonna die. It's all about the decisions we make. We can either be more sympathetic to these lower forms of life or we can just eat them. Choice is always ours.
Twaddle, pablum, and drivel, I have rarely witnessed such ignorance. Industrial meat and grain production are the main dangers of meat consumption and the consumption of grains, by the animals eaten. If you think that veges are free of disease, then you don't know the anemic wastrels that I have.
A vegetarian diet is not remotely SUFFICIENT in nutrients necessary to STAY healthy, long term.
Just a myth that a vegetarian diet is not remotely sufficient in nutrients! Come visit Gujrat in India, where most families are pure vegetarians. And then make make your decision. And I never said that vegetarians are free of diseases. But if you are taking a balanced vegetarian diet, then you are less likely to get diseases.
It is a myth that it is a myth, and once you dig into the biochemistry of it this becomes more than clear. If you should choose to not do the research, then by all means, I encourage you to remain a vegan for the rest of your life, such as it will be.
Ha, I don't research to prove a thing which generations of our people have already proved. Probably you yourself run a meat business of some scale, that's why you are advocating for it so much. If meat was that mandatory for our bodies, then we could survive only on meat. Try taking a meat only diet for 1 month, and then ask your body, how does it feel!
what I dont get are vegans. If the chicken/cow are free range and treated well whats the issue with using their extra eggs/milk?
They don't even eat honey.
What I want to know is, does a vegan breastfeed?
Do vegans swallow? Probably not, most seem unable to have fun.
Don't get me wrong, there are some vegans who are not brain damaged.
Wow, the disinformation is thick hereabouts. It will take about six posts, some of which I've already made, to demonstrate the flaws, errors and potential outright dissembling that I see in this post. It is unfortunate that people still get paid for pushing this kind of demonstrable nonsense.
i think if that will be relised maybe permetted for many kind of animals stay existe in this planet so let the live of al creatur and nature in safe.... :)
If I was forced to give up meat, I would eat people lol.
interesting post. thanks for sharing. look forward to seeing more posts from you! I love pigs
I look forward to the day when humanity all becomes vegan or at least vegetarian. The very least we could do is stop torturing animals. I strongly believe, that one of the reasons why humans have so many problems and suffer with so many diseases is because of the way they treat animals.
Strong belief is not reason.
Yes, we need to stop torturing animals. But we don't have to be vegetarian or vegan to do that. We can treat them humanely. While the mistreated animals are unhealthy, animals treated with love and care are healthy to eat. See my comment below for a more thorough explanation. I'm curious of what your thoughts are about it.
Great article! I've been Vegetarian for 8 years. The ethical and environmental impact of the global meat market are what caused me to change my diet. Upvoted and ReSteemed!
Of course, we'll never see EVERYONE be vegetarian. Nor should they. Before I get into why, let me preface it by first saying: I went vegetarian for a few years after meeting my vegetarian girlfriend. It wasn't too hard for me since I was mostly raw vegan at the time anyway.
Cows are good for more than just beef. Milk is another animal product derived from cows. If everyone went vegetarian, what would we do with the cows? Use them just for their milk? That would make milk, cheese, and butter a lot more expensive.
If we stop using animals for profit there won't be a financial incentive to raise them. Cows are domesticated versions of the extinct aurochs. Without humans cows would likely cease to exist. They'd go extinct because they've lost their wild animal instincts.
The best thing we can do for cows is to raise them humanely. It turns out that it works out better for us and the planet too, if we raise them naturally. Grass-fed cows and chickens are higher in long-chain omega-3s, which are essential to good health and lacking in vegetarian diets. You can get short chain Omega-3s in seeds like hemp seeds and chia seeds, and in walnuts and other foods, but the body has to convert it into the long chains. Unfortunately, not everyone's body is efficient at converting the short chains into long chains. So even if they're eating enough short- chain omega-3s, they may not be getting enough long-chain omega-3s, like DHA and EPA.
Plus, by raising cattle properly we can actually restore nature, including deserts! Watch Allen Savory's TED Talk to see what I mean. Yes, raising them in factory farms is terrible for us, the animals, and the planet. We need to get rid of that. So THE KEY is to reduce animal consumption by eliminated factory farming. How do we do that? Well, if we'd stop subsidizing GMOs, which are largely grown to feed animals, that would be a great start.
So while everyone being vegetarian may seem noble, it's fanciful and probably not the best thing for the world.
Any way we try to make eating meat a good thing it will never be the best thing.
Eating a diet with at least some healthily raised animal products is already the best thing for most homo sapiens.
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