Livestock Creating World Food Shortage!
In light of alarming articles now appearing proclaiming a global food crisis, all I can say is DUH! If anyone would bother to listen to some science-types and most vegetarians have been saying for years, this wouldn't even be a problem. Oh and that whole carbon emissions problem would be solved too.
It's simple. Cows eat many times the amount of the amount of food they will eventually become, and they consume a whole lot of fresh water. And if you think automobiles emit a lot of greenhouse gasses, guess how much greenhouse gases these bovine eco-terrorists emit? A whole lot. Worse yet, at this moment, vast swaths of pristine, virgin rainforest are being cleared to make room for more livestock to graze. These acres of ancient trees, which help soak up carbon-dioxide, are being slashed and burned so more cows can eat up more of the world's food.
At a time when the economy is faltering, meat consumption is devastating to world finances. An unthinkable amount of time and money is wasted in food production for livestock, meat production, transportation (as in millions of gallons of gas annually), massive recalls, and most crushingly the health care cost of having everyone sick, debilitated and dying. Poor diet is the main cause of heart disease which is the still the number one killer of Americans. As the threat of mad cow disease is always looming.
Eating meat and dairy products is a choice, the same as driving a gas-guzzling SUV. There are plenty of vegan foods that taste wonderful and are as healthy as can be. Instead of blaming gas prices for the food shortages, maybe the media should look a little closer. This problem has been a long time coming and even electric cars aren't going to stop us from using cows to kill us all.
It's simple. Cows eat many times the amount of the amount of food they will eventually become, and they consume a whole lot of fresh water. And if you think automobiles emit a lot of greenhouse gasses, guess how much greenhouse gases these bovine eco-terrorists emit? A whole lot. Worse yet, at this moment, vast swaths of pristine, virgin rainforest are being cleared to make room for more livestock to graze. These acres of ancient trees, which help soak up carbon-dioxide, are being slashed and burned so more cows can eat up more of the world's food.
At a time when the economy is faltering, meat consumption is devastating to world finances. An unthinkable amount of time and money is wasted in food production for livestock, meat production, transportation (as in millions of gallons of gas annually), massive recalls, and most crushingly the health care cost of having everyone sick, debilitated and dying. Poor diet is the main cause of heart disease which is the still the number one killer of Americans. As the threat of mad cow disease is always looming.
Eating meat and dairy products is a choice, the same as driving a gas-guzzling SUV. There are plenty of vegan foods that taste wonderful and are as healthy as can be. Instead of blaming gas prices for the food shortages, maybe the media should look a little closer. This problem has been a long time coming and even electric cars aren't going to stop us from using cows to kill us all.
