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Reduce or Terminate Eating Meat
Like him, hate him, or love him, big Arnold Schwarzenegger, the once Hummer driving Governor of California, was interviewed by the BBC at the UN Climate Conference in Paris a few days ago. Arnold added his voice to the growing list of high profile celebrities who are promoting the benefits of a vegetarian diet in an effort to help reduce our impact on the planetary systems. Arnold suggests it is a “good idea” for people to stop eating meat altogether or, at the very least, to stop for one or two days a week. “Luckily, we know you can get protein in many different ways,” Schwarzenegger states in the BBC interview. He also points out that a good portion of greenhouses gases are produced by intensive farming of livestock. Schwarzenegger, who started his career as a bodybuilder, winning the Mr. Universe title at the age of twenty and going on to win the Mr. Olympia contest seven times, has inspired many young males for decades. Schwarzenegger makes a good point that it is difficult to get people to change habits immediately, hence, it is possibly a better strategy for people to reduce consumption in the first instance in an effort to move toward a more vegetarian/vegan diet.
UN Food and Agricultural Organisation Report
Last year, the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation released a report that claimed emissions from farming, forestry, and fisheries had nearly doubled over the past half-century and may increase another 30 per cent by 2050. In line with this trend of a growing awareness and the impact humans are having on the planet, there is increasing discussion around the efficiencies of our agricultural systems. According to ecologists David Tilman from the University of Minnesota and Matthew Clark, “rising incomes and urbanisation have changed the global diet which has become high in refined sugars, refined fats, oils and meats.” The Tilman and Clark study published in the journal Natureshowed that, by 2050, these dietary trends will be a major contributor to an estimated 80 per cent increase in global agricultural greenhouse gas.
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The simple point is : TERNIMATE EATING MEAT OR TERNIMATE YOURSELF ...and I am not joking ...some people have woken up and those who haven't will later wish they had given up meat ...disease and early death will fall on meat eaters as they are eating continamated meat