What's wrong with what we eat?
Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 20:13 Mark Bittman would like to answer that. Did you know that raising livestock supplies more harmful components to the atmosphere, contributing to climate change, than all our cars and trucks? Did you know that our demand - not need - for animal calories are contributing to the current health crisis, i.e. diabetes, obesity, cancer, heart disease? Did you know that raising animals for food is far and away the largest culprit in land degradation?
Does this mean you have to become a vegetarian? Surprisingly, no. Despite the fact that we, as humans, kill 10 billion … that’s right, 10 billion animals a year. There’s no way to do that gently, humanely.
The time has come to stop raising animals industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.
We can eat well, eat better, be healthier and reduce our carbon footprint by doing this - reduce your meat consumption by just 50%.
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