Should We Stop Eating Meat for the Sake of Exploding Third World Populations, and Cuddly Animals? By James Reed

     It is hard for a little old wine drinker and red meat eater to accept, but, well, the logic can’t be faulted …  can it? You have, global warming, starving billions of people, all because of farting cows and juicy delicious slabs of red meat that melt in your mouth … no wait James, control yourself, meat is racist, like everything else, just ask Steve King (covered in another post by one of the American writers):
  https://www.livescience.com/64530-plant-focused-diet-helps-humans-earth.html?utm_source=ls-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190117-ls

“There's a new diet in town, and it offers a two-for-one special: People can help the planet and even live longer … so long as they stop devouring so many burgers, a new report by an international commission finds. The diet, known as the planetary health diet, is essentially a strategy to help people, especially Westerners, eat healthier meals, with fewer unhealthy foods (red meat, for instance) that are linked to climate change, freshwater pollution and the devastation of wildlife, the commission said. The new diet could make a real difference, too. If practiced by people the world over, as many as 11.6 million fewer people would die every year from illnesses such as coronary heart disease and stroke, the commission said in the report, published online yesterday (Jan. 16) in the journal The Lancet.

"Because food systems are a major driver of poor health and environmental degradation, global efforts are urgently needed to collectively transform diets and food production," the commission wrote in the report. The publication was convened by The Lancet and Eat Forum, a nongovernmental organization (NGO). Making the diet a reality, however, would require a global effort. Red meat and sugar consumption needs to be chopped in half, while the production of vegetables, fruits, legumes and nuts has to double, The Guardian reported. In particular, North Americans will have to eat 84 percent less red meat and chow down on six times more beans and lentils. Europeans are instructed to eat 77 percent less red meat and 15 times more nuts and seeds. In a nutshell, people are asked to eat more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and unsaturated oils; a low to moderate amount of seafood and poultry; and little to no red meat, processed meat, added sugar, refined grains or starchy vegetables, such as potatoes, the report said.”

     Here is the report, to be read whilst eating a ham and cheese toasted sandwich, and increasing one’s carbon footprint as much as possible:
  https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/EAT

     The writing is on the wall, literally. First they took away sex and family life, then the Dark Lords of Mordor stole masculinity, and now we are not going to be able to eat anything tasty, like meat, red meat on the bone. That is why, as an act of defiance, I will be eating red meat at every meal until I die of cancer, a happy man to the meaty end.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Rs7Mn9iKM