21 April 2016

How the world is going to sustain an increased population? Become vegetarian.

A new study discovered a meat-eater requires at least double the resources of a vegan or vegetarian. The problem is that grain is fed to cattle. In the US it takes an astonishing 25kg of grain to produce 1kg of beef. Why not just eat the grain? The grain currently fed to US cattle, could feed 800 million people.

The other problem with eating meat is that cattle require grazing land, so forests are destroyed to run beef. An area the size of Panama is deforested every year for grazing. If the world suddenly went vegetarian in 2050, we'd save an area the size of India from deforestation, and if we went one step further and became vegan, we'd save an area the size of the Amazon.

Luckily I've always liked a chick pea. Read all the details here