Read the article What would happen if the world suddenly went vegan? at http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160926-what-would-happen-if-the-world-suddenly-went-vegetarian
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Becoming vegetarian is' t as hard as it seems and as I have told it is only the matter of thinking another way.
Lastly things stated in this article like for ex. reducing emissions are only a "side-effects" of being vegetarian not the main reason for being vegetarian.
Being serious, in my opinion, the vast majority of people nowadays are vegetarians because it's popular. They don't care about environment. They do this because the want to keep up with the Joneses. I don't condemn them. I don't say that it is bad. But when i think about vegetarian diet aspects below are crossing my mind:
1) It takes time to read labels in shops,
2) Any dinner engagement requires briefly explanation of your eating preferences,
4) Meal choices can seem limited.
I think that there is not chance that whole world chose vagerarian diet. One of the reasons is that there are lots of people who work realy hard and overtime. It causes that after work they are lazy and convenient so they don't have time for reading labels in shops :-)
Also, sadly most vegetarians I met were too "aggressive" about their life decisions, trying to force and convince people into their opinion. I don't like such people in general, but I didn't see anybody trying to convert vegetarian to start eating meat again, so... :).
It won' t happen because inter-population mechanism between residents.
When specific species start to reproduce and the number of individuals begins to grow, it has influence among all other species.
This mechanism is conducted by natural selection.
For further read, please check this sites: :)
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_25
http://evolution.about.com/od/NaturalSelection/tp/4-Necessary-Factors-of-Natural-Selection.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection
The climate change thing is a little far-fetched in my opinion since both taking care of animals and plants are the source of pollution or greenhouse gases, so one side would recompense for the lack of the other one.
I could agree with you that when you are starting being a vegetarian, you need to control what you eat and how.
Later when you get used to your new eating habits you do it in a transparent way, just like with normal diet.
People always think that when you are a vegetarian you have nothing to eat. Thats not true, you have a lot things to eat and you are discovering a lot of new tastes that you have never even thought of.
Too much of CO2 emissions? That is absurd for me. Some research has suggested tropical forest produce more CO2 than they can absorb but no one therefore suggest to cutting down all the trees.
First of all we should deal with problem of famine in overcrowded area and then we can thinking about animal suffering.
I have another problem with „vegetarian” people - they threat themselves as superhuman and create specific group of people. I heard joke once about it: how to know if person you met at a party is a vegetarian? Calmly, he will tell you about it.
If the population of cows would keep expanding, they would quickly eat all their previous food supply - which used to be grass (actually, germs, cows are eating germs that feast on grass in their stomachs, but that is another story). In the brink of starvation, nature would make them slowly evolve into predators, first eating other, weaker cows, and then other species.
So yes, the nature would probably find a new balance, but that balance could be grassless world full of carnivorous cows. Not a bright future at all.
In fact, it does not matter why.
There are a lot of opinions that we cannot live without meat (which, of course, is not true). It shows that there is huge lack of knowledge.
First of all, people should learn something about it, know pros and cons, and what's more important - effects. Then, they could comment consciously and would be able to decide what is better - to be a vegan or not.
The truth is that we evolved to eat meat and we certainly need all the nutrients that come with it. It is also important to remember that healthy diet is not the only thing that makes up for your healthy lifestyle. Apart from food, we need a regular physical activity. That's why I recommend everyone to finish reading those articles, go to the gym, give yourself a good workout and then have yourself a nice steak with fresh salad ;)
This article shows that we, as a population, are starting to think “what if the whole world will not eat the red meat?”. For me becoming a vegetarian is a step in the direction to changing habits, which we had from the previous generations and our childhood. Our habits lead to bad consequences: poor treatment of animals, greenhouse gas emissions, natural habitat destruction. But we can't stop and probably will not save a planet for the future generations.
I like this article because it shows pro's and cons of the vegetarian planet. I was shocked that vegetarianism would stave off about 7 million deaths per year. From the other side, realising that meat is in our history, traditions and culture was also important. It's not only about changing our diets but also changing our mindsets.
I like this example: "Simply conforming to the World Health Organization’s dietary recommendations would bring the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions down by 17%". Of course, 7 billion carnivores and 7 billion vegetarians are being between Scylla and Charybdis. To my mind, the best solution for this problem is a balance in everything. It's good to know that even small changes could help.
Vegetarianism is not just a matter of some whim. People go vegetarian because they realise the way we treat animals is not right and they don't want to be involved in it anymore.
The idea of an entire population becoming vegetarians or vegans by 2050 sounds ridiculous to me. I don't think it could be possible at any time in the future, because most people just don't want such a radical change. Another problem is that we really don't know how the environment would look then. All the forecasts presented in the article are nothing more than hypotheses.
People always eat meat, and we can not predict what would happen if this state of affairs has changed. It could be either a great success or a great failure.
We don't have to become a vegetarian/vegan to change our eating habits, all we need is to have a healthy, balanced diet. With little effort we can take care of themselves and the environment.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/ct-met-vegan-cardiologist-20140817-story.html
http://www.forksoverknives.com/why-the-president-of-the-american-college-of-cardiology-wants-heart-disease-patients-to-eat-vegan-diets/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyNy2mSnNRo
Being vegan isn’t only not eating meat. Sometimes you must change your whole life. Different pillows, shoes, coats, cosmetics. A lot of people don’t know about it. Before taking a decision you need to learn about diet and rest.
I can believe that excluding meat from diet might be healthy for some people for a while but in my opinion we cannot predict the impact on humanity in the long run. People eat meat as long as they exist and basing opinion on others speculations might be dangerous.
Especially that nutrition facts are not sure and may change every day. For example just like facts about milk.
On the other hand there is a matter that every carnivore should care about, that is humanitarianism for animals. I've seen videos from abattoirs and conditions are inhuman and terrifying.
I can believe that excluding meat from diet might be healthy for some people for a while but in my opinion we cannot predict the impact on humanity in the long run. People eat meat as long as they exist and basing opinion on others speculations might be dangerous.
Especially that nutrition facts are not sure and may change every day. For example just like facts about milk.
On the other hand there is a matter that every carnivore should care about, that is humanitarianism for animals. I've seen videos from abattoirs and conditions are inhuman and terrifying.
Of course, if I did it, it would be primarly to stop consuming animals and basically save at least some of them.
the answers for both questions in my opinion are the same. i don't know
it's just something that grow up with me, at that time there was not much talks about being vegan.
now a days with the power of social media it's possible by 2050 every one will be vegan :)
Of course there would be incredible impact on our whole society and some aspects of such a change would be negative but talking about it in perspective of less than 40 years is absurd. The article tries to be present positive aspects of the whole world changing to vegetarian diet basically overnight, and at the same time ridicules the whole idea by mentioning problems such as finding alternative job opportunities for people who work in the meat production industry right next to wedding gifts consisting of meat.
Apart from that, I think the problem lays in people who could eat less meat (not even none entirely) but won't think about making even the slightest change in their lifestyle. Most people don't want to see the bigger picture.