That it is healthier to eat a vegetarian, probably everyone has heard before. Would be as well known that food animals are not being cuddled to death. to post photos of bloody slaughter brings in my mind for most people has nothing-at least for me it used for 30 years nothing. I would just like to mention at this point not miss the ethics of meat consumption, and also the medical aspect, I leave for lack of skill on the sidelines. You are in my opinion not even necessary, there are more than enough facts, which speak only from environmental considerations for a meat-poor diet.
clearing of rain forests
be cleared, especially in South America rain forests, either to create grazing land for beef cattle or to grow grain for livestock feed in order. Thus, in recent years have already gone a fifth of the entire Amazon rainforest . Cattle feed is now about 30% from soy, and soy in Brazil is grown on 39 million hectares of land a former rain forest. Brazil is behind the USA's number 2 in the soybean exporters, the major buyer of Brazilian soy is also the German cattle breeding industry. In this respect, therefore, also contributes to deforestation of the German meat rain forest.
CO2 balance of meat
On the one hand, the mass farming itself by participating in the rain forest clearing a pretty bad CO2 balance, difficulty is, however, add that the animal feed is often shipped halfway around the world and that the animals even significant amounts of greenhouse gases (eg methane). The Ökoinstitut this, Freiburg has released an interesting study where to find, for example, on page 8, the carbon footprint of different foods are. produce
help combat world hunger
make 1 kilogram of meat, you need-even if mixed into the feed or industrial greases and other delicatessen depending on the animal 7 to 20 kg of plant feed, and pork has a better record than beef. Of course, other factors play into the complex problem of "world hunger" into it, the factory farming is their main cause.
waste and sewage
googled a citizens' initiative fattening "are found in all corners of protests against proposed new and expansion of broiler farms, not without reason. A pig factory that prides itself on being produced, happy times as much dirt as a small-town, the biggest pig in the United States is even higher than LA, for that matter. A mast animal can be up to 40 times its weight to produce manure. This manure contains ammonia, which is not only a fine dust in the air, but also as a nitrate on the fields. From there it gets into our ground water and is in the body to nitrite with cancer potential.
My expertise:
At this point I have to go back a little further. I stopped about 5 years to eat vegetables. Potatoes, lentils, beans, peas, mushrooms, that was pretty much all that has since come out of the ground on my plate. Do not ask why, I have no idea in children's minds sometimes go to strange things, and in my case, parents, friends and society were powerless, no matter what they tried it. So I was a carnivore through and through, did not go without.
Last year I was then, however, on a training course on which the entire board, not only vergetarisch, but * gasp * would be even vegan. After I've been ahead of the biggest concerns ("I'll starve, there's not even a pizzeria in the neighborhood!") I was then therefore confronted with the vegan food and oh miracle of cooking know his trade so was the Eating not only edible but also delicious!
This was initially cleared the way for tofu, which I missed, thanks to all the meat is no longer in the bolognaise or chilli. Then I jokingly asked how long I can take it because without meat and behold: the Bio-Metzger, whose regular customer, I was up to the time I had seen since this weekend zwangsveganen not once more. With raw vegetables and salads, I'll get used well in this life any longer, but the lentil soup is also very well without Vienna and bacon carbonara tastes good without the ham (but with more pepper and lots of fresh parmesan) holds and the same for the baked mushroom toast, I found it surprising in how many dishes to my usual diet, the meat is really unnecessary! I have also discovered soy milk for me, they might not be everyone's thing, but tastes good them in the cereal even better than cow's milk, and chocolate drinks make can be almost addictive.
vegetarians or even vegans, but I'm not at home I eat about once or twice a week, fish, and friends in the restaurant and I eat meat today. And even if I have the veggies among you may now before the head butt, I eat it is still very much . I guess I my meat consumption by 80 - was reduced 90% without regret and without even a single time have had the sense to limit me or anything having to do without. For someone to eat before 6 months or about 2 times a day meat has and the friend is not a big vegetable, I think that's bombastic, with the result would have been expected, neither I nor my entire environment ever. My absolute dream goal was originally a half, and I'm amazed at how easy it was for me even to surpass it.
I can not confirm, that I feel healthier since then-I was before anyway just got sick-but I feel better anyway. I reduced my computer according to WWF-CO2 emissions by about half a tonne per year, and if I eat meat once, then not only that, but consciously and with pleasure, and it's definitely something special. A short
Set to the source: mainly I have used in PeTA , Vegan.at and Vegetarismus.ch . This may well one or the other, admittedly not hold strictly objective for 100%, but seem to be the article to me to be well researched and are based on such studies by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN), World Watch Institute, the Federal Statistical Office etc. I think these organizations can be organic / ideological spinners not complain seriously.
clearing of rain forests
be cleared, especially in South America rain forests, either to create grazing land for beef cattle or to grow grain for livestock feed in order. Thus, in recent years have already gone a fifth of the entire Amazon rainforest . Cattle feed is now about 30% from soy, and soy in Brazil is grown on 39 million hectares of land a former rain forest. Brazil is behind the USA's number 2 in the soybean exporters, the major buyer of Brazilian soy is also the German cattle breeding industry. In this respect, therefore, also contributes to deforestation of the German meat rain forest.
CO2 balance of meat
On the one hand, the mass farming itself by participating in the rain forest clearing a pretty bad CO2 balance, difficulty is, however, add that the animal feed is often shipped halfway around the world and that the animals even significant amounts of greenhouse gases (eg methane). The Ökoinstitut this, Freiburg has released an interesting study where to find, for example, on page 8, the carbon footprint of different foods are. produce
help combat world hunger
make 1 kilogram of meat, you need-even if mixed into the feed or industrial greases and other delicatessen depending on the animal 7 to 20 kg of plant feed, and pork has a better record than beef. Of course, other factors play into the complex problem of "world hunger" into it, the factory farming is their main cause.
waste and sewage
googled a citizens' initiative fattening "are found in all corners of protests against proposed new and expansion of broiler farms, not without reason. A pig factory that prides itself on being produced, happy times as much dirt as a small-town, the biggest pig in the United States is even higher than LA, for that matter. A mast animal can be up to 40 times its weight to produce manure. This manure contains ammonia, which is not only a fine dust in the air, but also as a nitrate on the fields. From there it gets into our ground water and is in the body to nitrite with cancer potential.
My expertise:
At this point I have to go back a little further. I stopped about 5 years to eat vegetables. Potatoes, lentils, beans, peas, mushrooms, that was pretty much all that has since come out of the ground on my plate. Do not ask why, I have no idea in children's minds sometimes go to strange things, and in my case, parents, friends and society were powerless, no matter what they tried it. So I was a carnivore through and through, did not go without.
Last year I was then, however, on a training course on which the entire board, not only vergetarisch, but * gasp * would be even vegan. After I've been ahead of the biggest concerns ("I'll starve, there's not even a pizzeria in the neighborhood!") I was then therefore confronted with the vegan food and oh miracle of cooking know his trade so was the Eating not only edible but also delicious!
This was initially cleared the way for tofu, which I missed, thanks to all the meat is no longer in the bolognaise or chilli. Then I jokingly asked how long I can take it because without meat and behold: the Bio-Metzger, whose regular customer, I was up to the time I had seen since this weekend zwangsveganen not once more. With raw vegetables and salads, I'll get used well in this life any longer, but the lentil soup is also very well without Vienna and bacon carbonara tastes good without the ham (but with more pepper and lots of fresh parmesan) holds and the same for the baked mushroom toast, I found it surprising in how many dishes to my usual diet, the meat is really unnecessary! I have also discovered soy milk for me, they might not be everyone's thing, but tastes good them in the cereal even better than cow's milk, and chocolate drinks make can be almost addictive.
vegetarians or even vegans, but I'm not at home I eat about once or twice a week, fish, and friends in the restaurant and I eat meat today. And even if I have the veggies among you may now before the head butt, I eat it is still very much . I guess I my meat consumption by 80 - was reduced 90% without regret and without even a single time have had the sense to limit me or anything having to do without. For someone to eat before 6 months or about 2 times a day meat has and the friend is not a big vegetable, I think that's bombastic, with the result would have been expected, neither I nor my entire environment ever. My absolute dream goal was originally a half, and I'm amazed at how easy it was for me even to surpass it.
I can not confirm, that I feel healthier since then-I was before anyway just got sick-but I feel better anyway. I reduced my computer according to WWF-CO2 emissions by about half a tonne per year, and if I eat meat once, then not only that, but consciously and with pleasure, and it's definitely something special. A short
Set to the source: mainly I have used in PeTA , Vegan.at and Vegetarismus.ch . This may well one or the other, admittedly not hold strictly objective for 100%, but seem to be the article to me to be well researched and are based on such studies by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN), World Watch Institute, the Federal Statistical Office etc. I think these organizations can be organic / ideological spinners not complain seriously.
