Vegitarianism - A Hidden Persp
Vegetarianism- A Hidden Perspective
Americans eat more meat per person in the world, and the world is suffering because of this. The truth is that many global problems, like hunger, or rainforest destruction can easily be solved if Americans cut down their meat consumption.
If you eat meat, you have something in common with most of the cows you have eaten. They've eaten meat too. The meat industry has developed ways to boost its productivity and lower it's costs. This process is a form of recycling.
When a cow is slaughtered, about half of it by weight is not eaten by humans. These parts including the head, hooves, horns, bones, and blood are dumped into giant grinders at rendering ...
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Angeles alone sends some two hundred tons of euthanized cats and dogs to a rendering plant every month. Added to the blend are the euthanized catch of animal control agencies, and believe it or not, roadkill! When this gruesome mix is ground and steam-cooked, the lighter, fatty stuff floating to the top gets refined for use in cosmetics, candles, soaps, lubricants, and waxes. The heavier protein material is ground into a brown powder (about a quarter of it is fecal material). This powder is then mixed with artificial hormones, antibiotics, and large portions of grains. This is then fed to livestock. Farmers call it "protein concentrates."
The hormones and antibiotics that livestock eat are getting into the people that eat them. These hormones have only been around for a few years, so the effect on the human population is not yet known. No major studies are being done in this area anyway, so this ignorance could be killing people already, in the form of cancer or other illnesses.
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of meat by only 10%, 60 million people could be adequately fed by the freed-up agricultural land. This would end the hunger problem in Africa, if the U.S. were willing to export it for low costs. A huge part of American crops are fed to livestock for little meat in return. It takes an entire acre to produce just 165 pounds of beef per year. The same land could be used to grow over 20,000 pounds of potatoes every year to feed humans. This would not be too bad if the amount of land that was used to grow cattle-feed crops was low, but 56% of American farmland is used to feed livestock.
In the U.S., water shortages are getting worse every year. It takes 25 gallons of water to ...
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