2008: the year much of humanity began to go hungry
Isn’t it, truly and honestly, time that the world stopped eating meat—or, at the very least, individuals and families in the West, cut back to one meat-based meal per week? If Westerners had most meat all to themselves, like so many things, the food crisis might not have grown as rapidly as it has.
But diets are changing in countries such as China, India, Brazil and Russia, where economic growth has boosted meat consumption—in China, the world’s biggest nation, the rate is up 150 per cent since 1980. In India, it has risen 40 per cent in the last fifteen years. Demand for meat from across all developing countries has doubled since 1980. Now it seems the hunger for meat in preference to vegetables, rice and other staples will, in 2008 and beyond, be the death of many millions.
tags: animals, chickens, cows, environment, famine, food, food crisis, health, meat, pigs, planetary resources, self-sufficiency, selfishness, sheep, starvationI am slim
I went to the doctors yesterday for a medical, which you are required to have when you first register as a patient. I am six foot 2 inches tall, and weigh 13st 4lb. According to the BMI—Body Mass Index—which is the government’s accepted standard for determining what is safe and unsafe, I am slim. Not thin, but slim. I am well within normal parameters for my height, and impressive for my age. All praise the vegetarian diet, reduced salt intake, and an ongoing determination to ignore anything Delia Smith has to say about food these days.
tags: Body Mass Index, fat, health, weight
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