The steak harms both you and the planet.
revolutionized diets, if we understand what damage causing animal proteins.
Of AND Ayres (Panorama of January 6, 2000 - TIME)
To celebrate his triumphal entry into Rome in 45 BC, Julius Caesar arranged a banquet for thousands of people who stuff themselves poultry, fish and game. Since mankind has discovered the use of fire, every victory in war, sports, politics and commerce, was accompanied by celebrations with excessive consumption of meat. In all areas of the developing world, those who manage to emerge from poverty to first change the peasant diet, based mainly cereals and vegetables, a diet rich in meat. In fact, since 1950 the per capita consumption of meat in the world is more than raddoppiato.Nel the next century will have to change things. Just as we realized the economic and social costs of smoking, we discover she can no longer support or ignore the costs of mass production of cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry and fish to feed a growing population. These costi comprendono lo spreco di acqua e terreni, l’inquinamento massiccio da escrementi animali, la percentuale crescente di disturbi cardiaci e di altre malattie degenerative, la distruzione delle foreste, da cui dipende la vita del nostro pianeta.Per produrre 1 Kg di mangime bovino ci vogliono 7 Kg di cereali, la cui crescita richiede 7 mila Kg di acqua. Rinunciare ad un Hamburger significa non consumare una quantità di acqua pari a quella che si risparmierebbe facendo 40 docce con un getto ridotto.Negli Stati Uniti il 70 per cento di tutta la produzione di frumento, granoturco e altri cereali è destinato al bestiame. In tutto il mondo si prosciugano milioni di pozzi perchè si usa più acqua per allevare maiali e polli che per raccolti destinati al consumo diretto.L 'India, China, North Africa and the United States are at risk because the water scarcity are pumping more water from their aquifers than they fall with the pioggia.Dato that the population of the regions in which the' water shortage continues to increase, governments will impose the use of water to produce food, not feed. The new policy will increase the price of meat so that only the rich can permettersela.Il chorus of protests that will rise up against this perspective is based on the fact that the cereals do not give the same amount of meat protein. But nutritionists say that most of the population of richer countries do not need all the proteins that are derived from the flesh; several plants including cereals wasted as fodder, are an excellent source of proteine.La mass production of meat has also become a significant source of pollution. The cattle manure has been identified as a cause of mass deaths of fish and diseases such as pfiesteria, which involves memory loss, confusion, and burns for those who touch the contaminated water. In the U.S., for example, livestock produce 130 times more excrement of human beings. A pig farm in Utah produces more sewage of a city as large as Los Angeles. These huge farms are proliferating and in densely populated areas are contaminating the waters potabili.In various wildernesses, Indonesia Amazon, then, the tropical forest is burned to make room for livestock. Agriculture is the main cause of deforestation and demand for meat is the major cause of development and expansion of agriculture. The recent conversion of the Chinese diet rich in meat is linked to the increase in obesity, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, colon and rectum. The World Health Organisation has found similar findings in other parts of the world. Other consequences the use of hormones in livestock and antibiotici.Queste concerns may seem illogical: we were hunters and gatherers, we have eaten meat for hundreds of thousands of years. But livestock breeding, transgenic and stuffed with chemicals, is something else than the game of our ancestors. When we moved from hunting and gathering wild fruits to sheep farming and breeding, we have forever changed the balance naturali.Occupando a growing space in the world with cities, farms, waste, we put at risk the fate of other predators, which they also need large spaces. The Tigers and the Panthers could not survive the next secolo.Noi however we are flexible, the stomach of omnivores and creative brain allow us to adapt. And we can change our position in the food chain by eating foods that require a least amount of water and soil, and pollute less, discovering the pleasure of a vegetarian diet as one that already follow persone.Non million is expected to lead to abrupt end of the habit of eating meat. It will raise more livestock, perhaps in the pastures free, for lovers of steaks that can afford them. Many others will return to eat meat only on feast days, as it was before. But the era of mass production of meat, with its inevitable cost of our health and the environment, should be completed by the end of the next century.
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