Posts Tagged "meat consumption"
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Childhood Obesity
Widespread obesity has become a continually increasing problem over the last two decades for many countries, especially the United States and United Kingdom. It is very apparent that if massive changes aren’t made, the nations will face “a public health problem of epic proportions” due ...
Deforestation Due to Global Meat Demand
“In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York.” According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 25 to 30 percent– or 1.6 billion tonnes– of ...
On Our Radar: Al Gore, tastier meat, and fashion
On Our Radar will be a new series of posts where we share links reflecting our travels throughout the internet. Here we will give a snapshot of the places that we’ve been, and still are, on the world wide web. You can use this to ...
Save Money with Less Meat
#ISavedWhen As we’ve said many times, eating less meat greatly benefits your health (see our weight loss and heart disease posts) and the environment– but another benefit that’s regularly overlooked is the amount of money you can save! The people over at LearnVest did a ...
Heart Disease and Meat Consumption
Coronary heart disease is the number one killer in the world, responsible for over 12% of all deaths. Consuming an unhealthy amount of meat (which nearly ALL of us do) drastically effects your health later on in life- It not only increases your chances of ...
Less Meat = Weight Loss
In general, the less meat you eat, the thinner you are. I know it sounds like quite a stretch, but it’s been proven! A 2009 study by Oxford’s Tim Key found that vegetarians (who don’t eat animals) and vegans (who don’t eat animals or animal ...
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