What do you like more: a hamburger with potatoes or a salad? Vegetables don't usually like them, but they should. Livestock emits more than 14,5% of the world's greenhouse gases, and that is a problem, since An average of 40kg of animal products is consumed in the world per person per year; in Spain, 100kg.
For the planet to be sustainable, meat consumption should be reduced five times according to Florent Marcellesi, Equo MEP.
Meat consumption in so-called First World countries is skyrocketing, which is reflected in the streets. More and more obese people while in countries like Japan, where they have a more vegetarian diet, it is difficult to find someone who is overweight.
Según un study led by the University of Oxford and carried out in 2014, the CO2 emissions of vegetarians are 50% lower than those of daily meat eaters, and those of vegans 60%. However, it is not necessary to become vegetarian to help the planet; just eat everything: fruits, vegetables, and occasionally meat. The human being is omnivorous and comes from monkeys, which are animals that mostly eat plants, except the odd one, such as the African chimpanzee, which also feeds on insects.
What happen? What eating processed meat has become more affordable than eating fruits and vegetables, which is illogical since many more resources are required to produce meat than fruits and vegetables. It is cheaper to buy meat than vegetables, and therefore, that is what we eat.
But if we continue like this, the natural landscapes that we love so much could soon end unless we reduce carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), and this implies reducing the consumption of meat.