(Natural News) If you want to live a healthy and sustainable life, try switching to a low-meat diet. Doing this could make a huge impact not only on your health but also the environment.
Modern animal agriculture is destroying the earth. Most of the world’s meat, eggs, and dairy are produced in factory farms. The livestock industry calls this concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). (Related: How eating a plant-based diet can save the world.)
In these establishments, a lot of chickens, cows, pigs, and other livestock are put together in extremely close quarters. These animals are fed a diet based heavily on genetically modified corn and soybeans instead of eating bugs, grass, leaves, roots, or anything like their natural diet. Instead of their manure fertilizing grasslands, it piles up in massive lagoons that pollute nearby air, groundwater, and rivers.
Reducing your meat intake and consuming more produce, such as replacing beef-burgers and bacon with beans, could lead to significant reductions in rates of Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and other chronic diet-caused ailments. This, in turn, could also lead to profound economic savings. Today, the world spends more than $60 trillion on health care every decade, and much of this goes to the treatment of chronic and preventable diseases.
But you don’t really have to eliminate meat from your diet if you don’t want to. Whether or not you want to go vegetarian or vegan, you can eat less meat and move away from industrialized animal agriculture.
Switching to a new dietary pattern can be difficult at first. To help you get started, here are some tips for following a healthy and sustainable diet:
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