Sentences with phrase «overall rice production»

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And, as much as vegans wouldn't want to admit it, if the human species returned to a more literal Paleo picture — actually hunting for actual wild animals when necessary (and eating them fresh), making animal foods just a part of the overall diet, and eating no refined plants (like white flour or white rice, which don't exist in nature), a couple things would happen: (1) we could put an end to the horrific treatment of animals in the factory farming industry, and (2) the environmental devastation that results from our current food production model would be substantially minimized.

Even accounting for the 2 - 4 times greater inorganic Arsenic content of US - grown rice (which accounts for just 1.4 % of total world rice production), people in those Asian countries still consume up to 10 times as much Arsenic from rice, yet they have among the lowest overall incidence of cancer.

Moreover, doubling of atmospheric concentration of CO2 in combination with a similar rise in temperature would result into an overall 20 % rise in rice production and 31 % decline in wheat production» (Ministry of Environment and Forest, 31).