Daily Medical Advices

6. With only reduce meat consumption by 10% can greatly reduce the environmental damage

7. The only reason we can consume as much meat is because prices are relatively low. Are low for the inhumane treatment of farm animals. We could fill pages describing the atrocities committed for meat at low prices. People avoid seeing the pictures of the breeding of animals and read about how millions of chicks are thrown away to die slowly from hunger and bitten by ants and rats because they have high commercial value.


The high cost of frequent consumption of meat
The cost of beef is very high and beyond the money coming to our very humanity. Besides the inhumane treatment of animals is a health cost and a very high cost in damage to the planet.

If the U.S. people just stop eating meat a day could save:

100,000 million gallons of water
1500 million pounds of food grains
70 million gallons of gasoline
3 million acres of forest land could be
33 tons of antibiotics

According to estimates a pound of wheat can be produced using 60 pounds of water while a pound of beef requires 2500 to 6000 pounds of water.

If every person in the U.S. stopped eating chicken one day a week to replace it with another food that would have the same effect by reducing the carbon dioxide emitted by half a million cars.

According to studies by eating less meat is more beneficial and immediate effects on the environment than other types of energy use in transportation.

Protein meatless
Only junk food is not protein. If you eat vegetables, beans (beans), nuts, grains, seeds they consume protein. It is not necessary to eat meat or animal products to be healthy. Read proteins in the diet.

Our ancestors did not consume the average amount of meat consumed and were currently healthy people.

How to consume less meat
As we said earlier is not that all people become vegetarian is eating less meat. This is very easy you can avoid eating meat (all types) in some meal times, you can eat less meat for example making a stew or meat mixed with vegetables (eg Chinese style) instead of serving chicken pieces or whole pieces of meat .

Better yet rarely eats meat, the meat used most of all as part of the dish instead of using it alone.