Why you should eat less meat

Daniel Silva
Escuela Politcnica Nacional
05-15-2015
When we started to talk about food you have to be careful about cultural ways of living and a
lot of ideas that you get used to since you are child, for example that you should always eat
meat to growth strong and tall, the same kind of stuff happens with the milk consumption.
The idea of this essay is give you scientific evidence of the problems related to health in
direct relationship with the consumption of meat.
Consumers would like that the meat industry could be modern in the use of land and
resources,
1.- The relationship between the de increasing necessities of land required to growth cattle
Amazonia is under pressure because the global consumption of meat needs more land and
resources like water and food, in Amazonia live around 39 million people, 420 indigenous
tribes, that had lost a big part of their land to produce animal feed or to convert forest into
fields where cattle could develop.
The global warming effect is normal phenom that sustains life on the earth otherwise we
could live in a earth so cold like 92 F less warm that it is our normal temperature around the
earth.
Climate change it is related to the consequences of extreme climate events, droughts, floods.
According to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 18% of
greenhouse gases emissions (ghg) came from livestock

2.- A political, economical and ecological issue is related to the distribution of land required
to raise cattle for example for 1 cow is necessary 5 hectares of land for the same area of land
we could feed 5 persons with corn, 15 persons with wheat and 30 persons with soy crops,
3.- Human beings don't have the digestive system of a carnivore or the digestive system of an
herbivore, when a carnivore eats meat their body has shorter bowels and smooth to take the
nutrients of meat really quickly and take out the waste fast from their system, our bowels are
fluted and larger like 5 to 7 meters so when we eat meat there are a lot of acids and toxic
substances related to the natural process of putrefaction of meat that get absorbed in our
shorter intestines and our blood, that is the reason why people is poisoning their own bodies
without knowing the consequences of eating too much meat.

According to FAO we should have an intake of animal protein around 25 grams per day but
in England it is like 50 grams per day, FAO said that the consumption of meat is related to

eradicate the problems of nutrition in all the nations, there are a lot of papers that shown
relationship between cancer (Prostate cancer just one of them) and meat consumption.
It is a famous study made by Nicolas Stern he is a british economist that suggest that we are
going to evolve to a society where just thinking about eating meat is inacceptable1.
The UN has warned that meat consumption is on course to double by the middle of the
century....In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: Meat is a wasteful
use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the worlds
resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
I think that we should experiment the changes of a diet with less meat from my experience I
was a vegetarian for 7 years and i feel just fine, i made my clinicals reviews and all was fine
nowadays I'm taking some salmon fish once a week.
The meat industry means a lot of waste of resources like land water, and why not said it your
own health.

References
1.- FAO Yields to Meat Industry Pressure on Climate Change, The New York Times, july 11,
2012, <http://goo.gl/thnL8g>
2.- Meat consumption, Cooking Practices, Meat Mutagens and Risk of Prostate Cancer
Esther M. John1,2, Mariana C. Stern3, Rashmi Sinha4, and Jocelyn Koo1 1Cancer
Prevention Institute of California (formerly the Northern California Cancer Center), Fremont,
CA 945382 Division of Epidemiology,

1 Give Up Meat to Save the Planet: Climate Chief Lord Stern: <http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/envgive.html>