Carryover from the press arrivatomi SSNV (Science vegetarian - www.scienzavegetariana.it ):
Dear readers, you
announced that the next episode of Report - that of May 17, 21.30, Rai 3 - will be 'devoted to damage environment and human health caused by the farms understood.
The title '"meat for all, and among those interviewed there' s also Dr Luciana Baroni, president of Societa 'Scientific Vegetarian Nutrition.
This press release of the Author of Report:
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In Italy we are 60 million people slaughtered and about 500 million chickens per year, 4 million cattle and 13 million pig. But since there are enough we import the rest. With the rest means that meat used to come in hundreds of pounds that each of us eats. Same quantities are consumed in Europe and the United States. But 6 billion living on planet Earth and a half people, many are starving, others who can not afford the meat they want. In a few years will become 10 billion, could produce meat for everyone? Some say that it would be suicide on the planet. FAO, UN, the IPCC warns that 18% of the greenhouse gases that fuel climate change is the result of the herds, which beat all other human activities, including emissions of the entire fleet on the planet. Still, a kilo of beef cattle consumed ten times its weight in cereals to be produced - cereals that could feed many more people - and consumed 15,000 liters of water. It is not enough. Over half the antibiotics produced are used for livestock use. Diseases increase in factory farms, as well as strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, but also increase the welfare of human diseases such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, obesity, which directly result from excessive consumption of animal foods. Not to mention the problem of sewage and mountains of excrement that pollute water and soil and we do not know where to put. No, not even close to farms, now in Veneto, Lombardy and Emilia Romagna password is: pyrogasification or make electricity with manure and the like. Calorific ridiculous, no viability, smoke pollution from intolerable, but the trick was to equate the faeces of solar energy and wind power and then take advantage of incentives that pay four times the market value of electricity produced from renewable sources!
The paradox is that it costs less to produce the food, meat, with this model of industrialized farming, the greater the impact on the environment, so that agriculture is the first casualty of an economic paradigm that no longer holds. What to do?
Some solutions are possible. Be implemented immediately, but something already moving.
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Enjoy it, Writing of the
SSNV
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