Unbelievable Pollution

Nowadays the human diet is really balanced, a person normally has no problem ingesting the basic nutrients minerals and everything one need for living, especially proteins, there are a lot of protein sources for us, like eggs, legumes and meat. This last one is actually incredibly full of this proteins, and that’s why humans have eaten meat from the beginning of history. In almost all cultures meat has been a a fundamental part of their food consumption and in many of them its also considered a delicacy. While the population grew and with this the global market, the meat business has been always in growth too, with this I mean that with more people, there’s a need for more production, so every year the amount of cows and pigs needed are increasing.

Where’s the problem with all this?

Hundreds of years ago humans ate meat because it is a good source of proteins and there were not many option, so the consumption per person was not that high. Today the offer will depend on the demand, and with technology the production cost are always getting smaller. That’s why the consumption per person today is getting higher every year.

Livestock sector is responsible of the 9% of the CO2 that the human produces. That’s actually nothing compared to the 65% of nitrous oxygen that they produce with their manure, this is 265 times more dangerous for global warming that the CO2.

Of all the space we have to live in our planet, 30% of the earth is destined to the production of pastureland that the livestock sector uses for growing their animals. In South America 70% of the deforestation is because of this.

So, even when nowadays vegan and vegetarians are increasing in number, the meat market keep getting bigger and bigger. This blog is an invitation for the one that reads, not to stop eating meat, but to consider this and decrease a little its consumption.