Care about the environment? Eat less meat

Changing one's lifestyle for the benefit of environment does not seem appealing to many. But changing one's lifestyle where cutting down meat consumption for the sake of one's vital health can be promoted because of its mass appeal. Studies after studies show the link between high meat consumption and life threatening disease like cancer, obesity, diabetes, heart disease and hypertension.

Vested interests directly and indirectly related to meat industries will be vehemently against any kind of arguments against the reduction of meat consumptions and productions, like the previous similar arguments made against the cigarette industries or the safety related standards in automobile. Even the Nobel Prize winning scientist hesitates raising this sensitive issue before getting the respected prize. Rajendra Pachauri who is the head of the United Nation's scientific panel on climate change implored the world with following comment: "please eat less meat." "Speaking at a press conference in Paris, he said meat was a very carbon-intensive commodity, a fact established by UN research showing that livestock production creates more greenhouse gases than all forms of transport combined."

Read Peter Fricker's article on this neglected subject from the following link:
Care about the environment? Eat less meat