Thai environment, energy, safety issues

Small changes are big changes

By bobbyd, Created on: 22/04/2015, Last updated on: 24/04/2015

» If humans stopped eating red meat, world hunger would disappear! The agricultural acreage and water to produce a human-edible calorie from meat is 3 times the acreage and water to produce a calorie of cereal grains or vegetables. Animal agriculture is one of the leading causes of climate change...

• faranginkorat commented : The ratio is three for chickens and fast growing fish. It is higher for animals that live longer in order to grow larger. It is 5 for pork, and 10 for "red meat". Another observation: The corn used (in the USA) to make 25 gallons of ethanol is enough to feed a person for a year, or to cruise down the highway in an SUV for about 4 hours. One problem with your comment is that having enough food does not ensure that everyone eats. South Koreans throw away more food than North Koreans eat, and some 50,000 North Korean children die of starvation each year on average. Finally, millions are malnourished even though they have adequate food to eat. Intestinal infections, mostly from contaminated water, dirty hands, etc. damage the intestine wall and make it inneffective at transporting nutrients into the body.

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