If successful, lab - grown meat could become a viable way to tackle the increasing environmental
impact of meat consumption around the world.
It is only a learned cultural behavior, not for the vast majority of people a biological need — certainly not at current
levels of meat consumption.
A UCLA study has found that dogs and cats are responsible for 25 to 30 percent of the environmental impact
of meat consumption in the United States.
I've researched the pork / poland thing, and Poland has a disproportionately high
amount of their meat consumption as pork, moreso than any other country I think.
If we read carefully, we see that Paul is actually denouncing stipends, and for the same reason given in the
case of meat consumption — that the strong should limit their freedom in order to avoid causing «scandal» for the weaker members.
«Meat free based «diets» are becoming more and more common as consumers learn more about the environmental impacts
of our meat consumption habits and the health benefits of cutting down on our meat consumption.
«We're all for arguments about the
ethics of meat consumption, but we also realise that the easiest way to encourage vegetarianism is to make it seem like less of a frontier and more of a transition.
For me, understanding how the body functions and exactly how eating plant foods will affect particular enzymatic processes, as well as the deleterious
effects of meat consumption, delivers a stronger message as to why I should make better dietary choices.
Perhaps people would have to make changes in their diets that mimic the China Study and Okinawa levels
of meat consumption if the government would simply STOP intervening.
«Eating Animals» [CAA] Natalie Portman produces this well - received doc about the
horrors of meat consumption based on a memoir by Jonathan Safran Foer.
He focuses on Smil's
analysis of meat consumption (which is the subject of yet another new book by this amazingly prolific writer: «Should We Eat Meat?
Residents of the United States seem to be at particular risk, with each person in the U.S. having about a 4 % chance of developing Alzheimer's disease, likely due in part to the Western dietary pattern, which tends to include a large
amount of meat consumption.
~ The China Study Even though in «Diet, lifestyle, and the etiology of coronary artery disease: the Cornell China Study,» he writes, «[T] he wheat - flour effect appears to be
independent of meat consumption, so enhancement of coronary artery disease risk by wheat consumption may be a possibility.
In a paper publishing Aug. 2 in the journal PLOS One, Okin says he found that cats and dogs are responsible for 25 to 30 percent of the environmental impact
of meat consumption in the United States.
«Meat Free Monday at Imperial allows us to raise awareness of the impact
of meat consumption on the environment, to show students that it is possible to have a satisfying, nutritious meal without meat, and to make a small but important contribution to our carbon cutting schemes.
I appreciate that someone has spoken up on the benefits of (small amounts)
of meat consumption.
According to recent FAO statistics, pork is second only to beef in terms of meat production in Uganda (see Table Below) since imports and exports of meat products are negligible; this ranking also reflects the relative importance currently of pork in terms
of meat consumption.
Clearly if Americans replaced
some of their meat consumption with equal calories of grain or vegetables, there'd be a net surplus of corn.