According to FAO statistics, meat is harmful to human health:
◆ 45% of the total number of human deaths is caused by meat; Animals lost 424 billion lives.
◆ Antibiotics/hormones/tranquilizers/pesticides/heavy metals contained in human meat residue.
◆ Cancer: Every year, more than 6.5438+00000 people suffer from colorectal cancer, and more than 600000 people die from colorectal cancer.
Heart disease: Every year, 6.5438+0.7 million people die of heart disease, which costs more than one trillion dollars.
◆ Diabetes: The number of patients worldwide exceeds 200 million, and the annual treatment cost is about $654.38+74 billion.
◆ Obesity: 65.438+06 billion people in the world are overweight, and more than 400 million people are obese.
In the United States alone, the annual medical expenditure is $93 billion. At least 2.6 million people die of overweight or obesity every year.
14 15 years, 6 1% of human infectious diseases are transformed from animals.
In the past 10 years, 92% of pathogenic diseases were spread by animals.
Carnivores have a higher incidence of cancer than vegetarians by 20% ~ 40%.
◆ The pesticide residue in meat food is 55%.
The residue of pesticides (insecticides) in fruits, vegetables and grains is less than 10%.
◆ The situation that the breast milk of meat-eating women is contaminated by pesticides is 35 times that of vegetarian mothers.
◆ The breeder feeds a large amount of antibiotics to livestock, poultry and fish → The residual antibiotics affect the microecology of human large intestine → Then affect immunity → The human body is resistant to bacteria → There is no medicine to treat severe infection; Growth hormone pollution leads to precocious puberty in children.
Diseases caused by meat
List diseases caused by eating meat:
Breast cancer and ovarian cancer
Skin cancer and colon cancer
Salmonella renal cell carcinoma.
Bluetongue prostate cancer
Avian influenza, Campylobacter.
Mad cow disease and Escherichia coli.
Shellfish poisoning)
Listeria
preeclampsia
Classical swine fever (pig disease, such as pmws).
The health benefits of vegetarianism.
★ The benefits of vegetarianism include: lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes, preventing stroke, improving arteriosclerosis, reducing the risk of heart disease by 50%, reducing the risk of heart surgery by 80%, enhancing the immune system, improving IQ and preventing various cancers.
Is vegetarian nutrition enough?
★ According to the research results of international gerontologists, the quality of protein in green plants and unprocessed grains is higher than all animal proteins-eggs, meat and milk.
★ Since 1967, the Department of Nutrition Physiology of Max Planck Academic Center in Germany has come to a definite conclusion that the quality of plant protein is always superior to that of animal protein.
★ As long as the plant food is properly ingested, there is no shortage of nutrients needed by the human body.
All the nutrients needed by human body can be obtained from plant food.
Vegetarian food can also prevent global warming.
Because of animal husbandry, factories burning petrochemical energy, power plants, automobiles and other means of transportation, a large number of gases such as carbon dioxide and methane are emitted, which prevent the heat energy of the sun from being released into outer space, thus producing a greenhouse effect and raising the temperature of the earth itself and the earth's atmosphere.
What is the impact of global warming on human beings?
Global warming will lead to permafrost melting, desert expansion, glacier melting, temperature rising, sea level rising and extreme weather increasing. The chain reaction caused by this has a far-reaching impact on the global ecosystem, water resources and the health of all mankind, in addition to people's livelihood problems such as lack of food and water.
What kind of disaster will global warming cause?
Global warming will lead to the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and the Arctic Ocean ice sheet, which will not only promote the sea level rise, but also make these areas no longer reflect the thermal radiation of the sun, thus leading to the continuous rise of the atmospheric temperature, further aggravating the melting of the ice sheet, causing a series of natural disasters such as floods, droughts, the discharge of a large number of toxic gases from the seabed, and the extinction of various animals and plants. The chain effect of global warming will also endanger the survival of mankind. Climate warming is faster than scientists predicted. If the sea water temperature rises, it will cause the ice to melt. When the ice layer exists, it can reflect heat energy, so the sea water will not heat up. But now the sea water temperature is too high, which makes the ice layer melt, and nothing can reflect heat energy, which makes the sea water temperature higher.
Animal husbandry is the chief culprit in destroying the environment? !
The report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, The Shadow of Livestock, points out that livestock production is the biggest factor leading to global warming. Every process of meat production will emit three main greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide (N2O). Among them, the influence of methane is 72 times that of carbon dioxide, and the influence of nitrous oxide is as high as 300 times.
More than 20% of carbon dioxide comes from animal husbandry, which is more than the total emission of all vehicles in the world 13.5 times! !
Animal husbandry is also the biggest culprit in destroying polluted land and water sources. 70% of Amazon's virgin forests have been turned into pastures. About 20% of the pasture has been destroyed by overgrazing, intensive livestock raising and soil erosion. In the United States alone, trillions of liters of irrigation water are used to grow livestock feed every year, accounting for about 85% of the fresh water resources in the United States. The large amount of excrement produced by livestock also makes the ecosystem difficult to load.
Production 1 kg beef: water consumption is 20000 liters.
Production 1 kg rice: water consumption 1, 9 12 liter.
Production 1 kg potato: water consumption is 500 liters.