The World Resources Institute (WRI), which is supported in part by the U.N., is encouraging humans to give up eating meat.
Doing so, they believe, will not only help with food supplies but will also combat climate change.
Become a vegetarian or watch the world starve to death and burn is the messaging, I guess.
Writing in their report, the WRI project claims:
[C]onsumption of animal-based foods to rise 68 percent between 2010 and 2050, with an 88 percent increase in consumption of ruminant meat (meat from cattle, sheep, and goats).
These trends are a major driver of the food, land, and GHG mitigation gaps. For every food calorie generated, animal-based foods—and ruminant meats in particular—require many times more feed and land inputs, and emit far more greenhouse gases, than plant-based food.
After the begrudging acknowledgment that meat does provide some needed nutrients to people in developing countries, the WRI adds that the increase in meat consumption around the world “is both unnecessary and unhealthy.”
Playing the spoilsport, WRI felt the need to then insert that science ” has now identified processed meats as carcinogenic and red meat as probably carcinogenic.”
We get it, leftists, things that humans enjoy are bad and should be taken away from us. Who cares that quinoa tastes like dirt, no matter what you do to it?
Massive amounts of red meat might be carcinogenic and forests have to be cut down to accommodate the cows. We should stop eating delicious meat and eat more tasteless quinoa and kale instead.
Well, no thank you. I was once a vegetarian and I ain’t going back. I’m much smarter now than when I was a member of PETA.
I also grew up in the Florida Panhandle surrounded by tree farms, so I don’t buy the “we’re running out of trees” scare tactic. Acres and acres filled with rows upon rows of pine trees blanket the area.
As a fun way to combat any leftist tendencies they may have, I love pointing out those tree farms to my kids whenever we visit my dad.
I then ask, “So, kids, what do you say whenever your teachers complain about deforestation?” The correct reply, that they’ve learned by looking out of the windows of our car, is, “Trees are a renewable source of energy.”
Of course, raising more cattle to feed this world’s growing mouths will require some deforestation. So, what? There are more trees in this country than when the Pilgrims landed.
There are also way more fields containing cattle, too. Lots of deforestation has happened as has even more reforestation. I understand that land is ultimately a limited resource, but we are far from coming close to that limit.
Protecting virgin forests is all fine and dandy until it begins to threaten humanity’s ability to flourish. Cut trees down when and where needed, and plant and cultivate trees when and where needed.
Another way to help ensure that everyone has enough food is to put an end to the irrational attack on GMO food. The Green Revolution started by American scientist Norman Borlaug has been attributed with preventing billions of people from starving to death.
Imagine how many future people could be fed if we’d stop demonizing big businesses that have the resources and incentives to develop more and better GMO crops.
The WRI isn’t completely opposed to innovation, though. In fact, one of their proposed solutions is an investment in the production of plant-based meat substitutes.
I don’t really have a problem with this proposal; if there’s a market for fake-meat, then enterprising souls should capitalize on that market.
However, let’s be honest: We are a long way away from plant-based meat substitutes actually tasting like meat.
When I was a vegan eating vegan “hamburgers,” I never once thought to myself, “You know, this fake meat tastes as good as the real thing.”
It was never even close. In fact, I was elated whenever I could find fake meat that didn’t cause me to wheeze and gag in order to force it down my gullet.
In conclusion, yes, the world’s growing population presents challenges. Going backward isn’t the solution.
If unleashed from governmental regulations, innovation and enterprise will go a long way to solving those challenges. There’s no need for anyone to give up meat.
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We’ll deforest much more land to make way for the improperly named “renewable energy”, wind and solar farms. Build more nuke plants as well as supplement them with gas-fired plants for the marginal electricity needs. Much more land would then be available for either forests or for raising cattle, sheep, etc.
Go tell the World Resources Institute to Go kiss a donkeys backside were not going to all go Vegan because of some idiotic study by a bunch of Crack-Pots.This kind of stupidity will only get those jerks from PETA to step up their stupid GO VEGAN nonsense
Vegans — my food eats your food.
First, animal protein contains the essential amino acids that humans cannot make. That’s a HUGE stumbling block to veganism. To achieve a diet with all the nutrients and amino acids needed to be healthy requires a complex and expensive diet of nuts and other veggies. It is not easy. Most vegetarians suffer from longterm malnutrition that takes 10–20 years to manifest. There is good reason that the people of India say that red meat causes war. If you are vegetarian and weak, you cannot resist oppression. But, if you are eating red meat and healthy, you may very well resist oppression and actively rebel.
Okay, you go ahead and stick to your rabbit-food diet. As for myself, I am made of animals (being an animal myself) and god made animals taste good for a reason. Why foresake such a fabulous match? If there really is a connection between the consumption of animals and the output of so-called greenhouse gases, then I have even more incentive now to order the XL Prime Rib.
Good one, Dave O. Can I use that on a bumper sticker?
Of all causes hitch hiking on the climate change fraud, the vegetarian ideology is the most legitimate. Cows have as much green house emissions as transportation. The vegetarian argument gets weak after this in that the emissions could be significantly reduced by changing our diets to poultry. I’m sure a vegetarian would be just as opposed to eating chickens.
Meat eating causing food shortages is a totally bogus argument. World wide food production is way up. This is partly due to higher CO2 levels and fertilizer from natural gas.
Organic gardening requires considerably more land to produce the same amount of food as standard methods. If the vegetarians are opposed to eating meat because of the extra land required, then they should be opposed to organic farming for the same reason.
Climate change is a fraud so I’ll enjoy my steak without worrying.
The most notorious vegans in History Genghis Khan,Adolph Hitler,Pol Pot,Charles Manson
If it is true that the climate is getting warmer because we eat meat, we should eat more of it. A warmer climate would be highly beneficial. Too bad that the idea is based on junk science and that it isn’t going to work.
It takes More Land and More Water to produce Organic Food then it dose Conventional Food
Ants and termites produce ten times the CO2 and much more methane in our environment than man’s industrialization so why don’t these vegans go live on the aforementioned, if they want to stop the expulsion of the aforementioned?