I have been so busy with work and being sick (eeh) - wait it's 2008? when the hell did that happen?
Anyway. I am posting for the first time this year. man I suck.
Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler - NY Times
Read this article! I'm just happy stuff like this is getting in the Times more and more frequently these days. Now if only this article can be syndicated into every small paper in the country - especially in places where the word vegetarian/vegan is considered foreign.
So the author, Mark Bittman recently wrote "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian" yet he is not even a vegetarian. ?!?! let's not touch that one.
"If price spikes don’t change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals."
Animal cruelty is last - people will reduce their meat intake for climate control or pollution waaay before animal welfare. You can't force every single American to watch Earthlings.
"It’s likely that most of us would do just fine on around 30 grams of protein a day, virtually all of it from plant sources." THANK YOU MR. BITTMAN. Can we put this sentence on the front page of every newspaper on this planet?
"Animal welfare may not yet be a major concern, but as the horrors of raising meat in confinement become known, more animal lovers may start to react. And would the world not be a better place were some of the grain we use to grow meat directed instead to feed our fellow human beings?" UM. HOW ABOUT YES. !!!
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