I wonder... I thought vegetarian cultures existed, and people turn out just fine also. I'm more measured, in that I'll eat some meat but try to reduce the amount for what I think are sustainability reasons.
I'm curious to hear what happened in your diet that caused problems? Maybe for another post. Or have you written about it already?
Thanks Evan.
Even the so-called vegetarian cultures supplement their plant-based diets with seafood.
What's your worry about sustainability? I'm glad you're getting some animal products. They're not as bad as the mainstream media paints them to be. You only have to look at the real scientific papers to see this.
I did a post about the vegan situation. It got wordy (as usual), so I've cut it into 3. One vegan came in, upvoted, must've seen I'm not a vegan any more, then removed her vote. Bless! XD
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Anj x
Re: Sustainability, in terms of the energy efficiency, and being able to feed the world, all that jazz. Though honestly, perhaps the causation is reverse. The population is exploding because of all these crazy ways we can sustain the meat and veggie production. If we stopped finding such methods, perhaps the population would start to show it's trend towards carrying capacity already.
Population growth in most developed countries has stabilised or is even declining. The biggest population growth areas are not Western countries, but countries that are relatively impoverished and/or have a strong religious/cultural basis for big families.
The population is exploding because some people still want to have lots of children, and because sanitation is much better than it was before, with industrialised farming playing a role but rural communities in developing nations still producing much of their own food.
The very worse thing to accompany a rise in population is an increase in demand for meat, as it is the most inefficient and resource-demanding of all agriculture. And fishing is destroying our oceans to the extent that fishless oceans have been predicted by 2048.