Thursday, August 19, 2004
And on That Survival Note:
Reportedly it takes much more water to eat meat than other things. In the new world we are creating, water will be in very short supply. In the modern world we tend to eat much more meat than in the less developed world. I think I heard something in the order of 200 pounds of grain needed to produce each pound of beef. Even if it were 20 instead of 200 pounds of grain, the results are obvious. You can feed a lot more people with 20 or 200 pounds than you can with one. I've always believed that less meat and more fruit and vegetables was more healthy anyway( most likely because my diet is mostly meat). One might come to the conclusion that those in the developed nations have a moral responsibility to reduce their meat consumption simply to re-direct those resources needed to raise the cattle towards the many millions who are hungry( starting with myself).
Reportedly it takes much more water to eat meat than other things. In the new world we are creating, water will be in very short supply. In the modern world we tend to eat much more meat than in the less developed world. I think I heard something in the order of 200 pounds of grain needed to produce each pound of beef. Even if it were 20 instead of 200 pounds of grain, the results are obvious. You can feed a lot more people with 20 or 200 pounds than you can with one. I've always believed that less meat and more fruit and vegetables was more healthy anyway( most likely because my diet is mostly meat). One might come to the conclusion that those in the developed nations have a moral responsibility to reduce their meat consumption simply to re-direct those resources needed to raise the cattle towards the many millions who are hungry( starting with myself).
# posted by Wil Smith : 7:18 a.m.
