In the article that I found, explained ten ways that vegetarianism can help save the planet. I looked more into this when I watched a TED talk by Mark Bittman who explained how what we’re eating is causing our planet extreme problems such as global warming. The problem with what we’re eating is that the farms that these animals are on aren’t all that great. The gases from the manures, the oil burned taking the animals’carcasses to markets that are usually thousands of miles away, the energy ad electricity that is needed to keep the meat cool on the way to those markets, the gas used to cook the mat, the energy used that is needed to plough and harvest the fields that grow the crops that the animals eat, and pumping the water that they need all put all sorts of pollution into the atmosphere which is resulting into our planet’s condition now. The food that is used to feed the animals is also a problem because of the pesticides which the animals eat making us prone to diseases. The animals are all crammed together and it’s just an unsanitary area for both the people working on those farms and the animals because they’re all pretty much squashed together. This can spread E coli and that actually has happened kind about a year or two ago at several Chipotles and there were cases of people getting really sick and hospitalized. Basically becoming a vegetarian is a huge step into decreasing all of these things from happening and helping our planet.
In a way I've always known this to be true, but to see the list of what the food industries does to the environment is kind of scary. I think we need to start with the youth and show them to eat less meat and overall help the planet since they learn from us what to eat.
ReplyDeleteI think that if most of our population were to stop eating meat and other animal products, not only would it help the planet and decrease global warming, but altogether our behavior would change and we would feel better about things because we know we are doing something to help something greater than ourselves, and we would have better living conditions as well.
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