9 Mar 2009
Obama admits a diet lesser in meat would reduce greenhouse gases
It’s very rare that you’ll find a political leader, from any party, that will actually, publicly announce, that a main source of greenhouse gas comes from farm animals raised for meat.
Well not only did Obama admit this and that meat is a very inefficient source of protein (referring to the amount of water and grain to get 1lb of meat protein compared to 1lb of plant protein), he also went on to admitting that Americans could benefit from a change in diet.
In his speech, he then went on to talk about how developing nations now eating a more western, “meat based” diet is wreaking havoc on already scare resources (grains, water, farm land).
Finally, a leader that puts two and two together and comments on how medicare costs and illnesses like heart disease and diabetes could be dramatically reduced with a diet lesser in meat, not to mention, reduce environmental pollution.
But if the environmental or animal ethics side of a vegan diet doesn’t concern you, what about the world’s poor? You see, to truly understand what is at stake in world food production, we’re at the point where we will have to make a choice between feeding the world’s livestock or world’s people, we won’t be able to feed both. Even if the entire world switched to a vegan diet, we would still run out of food, but at least it would sustain us longer.
food would never run out. Massive starvation yes, but the world would default to the darwinian premise of survival of the fittest, a truth that humans have long cheated. There would be food for those with the means to acquire it, and I’m not talking about money. Don’t worry, after a few billion deaths, food will be much less scarce for the rest of us.
Neil
March 10th, 2009 at 2:04 pmpermalink
Thumbs up!
4PawsS
July 7th, 2009 at 8:54 pmpermalink