Vegetarians can be credited with helping to conserve nature and the environment

Wednesday, 28 December 2005

Although they may not be aware of it, vegetarians all over the world can be credited with helping to conserve nature and the environment. Meat is a regular part of the diet in Western countries. But what does consumption of meat entail in terms of the environment? It leads to the destruction of millions of hectares of rainforest and pastureland. On the area thus cleared, fodder is grown to feed the animals that will later be slaughtered for the dining tables of meat eating humans. Apart from this factor, the energy intensive requirements involved in growing, spraying, harvesting, processing and transporting a pound of meat would consume over seven million barrels of oil per day in the US alone. This amount could be substantially reduced if even 10 per cent more Americans would become vegetarians... Source: The Statesman

 

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