The report presents a global perspective on the impacts of
industrial meat and dairy production, and illustrates its increasingly devastating impact on society and the environment.
High - sugar, refined carbohydrate diet, caffeine, stress, hormones in
industrial meat and dairy and estrogen - like toxins can cause various imbalances in your hormones, including testosterone.
«
Industrial meat and dairy has an outsized impact on the environment — it's a major contributor to deforestation, climate change and water pollution, and it harms our health,» said Dawn Bickett, Greenpeace International's global engagement lead for the Less Is More campaign.
Our current global food system, which is dominated by
industrial meat and dairy, is pushing our land and water resources to their absolute limit.
In a new report, GRAIN outlines the contributions of
industrial meat and dairy to global climate change, arguing that reducing their production and consumption is one of the most important actions we can take to address the climate crisis now.
Not exact matches
The company's primary products are
meat, seafood
and poultry; fruits
and vegetables;
dairy products; canned
and frozen foods;
industrial products; pulses (organic
and conventional);
and specialty products such as syrups, sauces
and marinades.
Our high
industrial capacity allows us to offer solutions for an extensive range of
dairy product uses in different sectors:
dairy,
meat, ice - cream, bread - making, biscuits, frozen products, nutritional
and sport products, among others.
Except for people living or working around
industrial sites, the most common source of exposure to PCBs may be from eating animal foods, especially seafood, but also
meat, cheese, eggs,
dairy,
and poultry.
Unlike the people who think that we should eat only what our Paleolithic ancestors ate (
meat, vegetables, fruit, nuts, tubers) because that is what we are genetically adapted to eat, people who follow the teachings of Weston A. Price (see May 20, 2010 post) look to our more recent ancestors
and what they ate prior to the introduction of
industrial foods in the 1800s, i.e. paleo foods plus
dairy products
and properly prepared grain products.
When I go out, I still order mostly vegan, as I don't trust sources
industrial sources of
meat, fish,
and dairy.
Certainly there are
industrial carcinogens, like dioxins, that may increase risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma,
and have been found in
meat and dairy.
When I first learned about eating whole foods, avoiding
industrial food,
and figuring out how to obtain local, pasture - raised
meat and dairy, I admit it, I felt overwhelmed,
and I was already a Health Nut.
Coronary heart disease, for instance, does not arise simply from excessive saturated fat in the diet but rather from a complex interaction of multiple nutritional factors directly linked to the excessive consumption of novel Neolithic
and Industrial era foods (
dairy products, cereals, refined cereals, refined sugars, refined vegetable oils, fatty
meats, salt,
and combinations of these foods).
The novel foods (
dairy products, cereals, refined cereals, refined sugars, refined vegetable oils, fatty
meats, salt,
and combinations of these foods) introduced as staples during the Neolithic
and Industrial Eras fundamentally altered several key nutritional characteristics of ancestral hominin diets
and ultimately had far - reaching effects on health
and well - being.
Cutting
meat out of one's diet is seen as the logical reaction to these injustices;
and yet, increasing numbers of articles, photographs,
and video footage from
industrial farms suggest that
dairy, allowed in vegetarian diets, raises far more ethical red flags than even
meat.