“Meat is murder” after all. The Smiths said it best.
I’m on a broccoli and cauliflower diet on weekdays with whatever protein I can curtail on weekends.
Came about in a sort of sober appreciation for the amount of sheer death we inflict on other living beings.
Worldwide, more than 70 billion land animals are killed for food every year. Our series of charts based on United Nations data shows the trends by type of animal.
70 billion - nearly 10 times as many animals per every living human on earth, per year.
Not that bad. We only eat 10 full animals a year? Does that even make sense? Is my math wrong, as per usual?
Apart from the sheer numbers, the sustainability of agriculture is an issue too.
Sorry to ruin anyone’s dinner plans. I’m more than willing to eat meat, myself. I’m an omnivore after all. There really are certain amino acids I simply can’t make without animal by products.