Does the world need to move away from consuming animals?

The Guru

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Or significantly reduce our intake?

Center for Disease control quote:

3 out of every 4 new or emerging infectious diseases in people come from animals.

source: Zoonotic Diseases | One Health | CDC

Besides that fact, it pollutes the planet heavily through methane and other pollutants. Feeding animals takes up a ton of arable land we could be using to grow plant based food to feed the people. Floods our system with hormones and antibiotics (another issue in creating resistant disease)

Meat comes at such a tremendous price it almost seems irresponsible to keep going. Maybe we should eat animal based products once or twice a week at most.
 
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been vegan since 2013. i ain't gonna front, i was scared when i first started because i thought it was a death sentence in terms of me being able to eat food i enjoyed. let me tell ya'll straight up, it's not true. I'm eating good over here still. To keep it real I don't think about it anymore and can't really ever see myself going back to my old ways.

ya'll gonna get on the wave sooner or later.
 

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It will just turn into an sport/game/status symbol for those with wealth.

Who actually needs ivory tusk for anything but vanity? But we spend countless hours and money to protect them.
 

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Meat within small portions isn’t bad. But we love to eat meat and huge portions everyday and we snack all the time,
For real, and almost every day. Just think of the things we eat with meat, milk in some form (cheese, cream, yoghurt etc), eggs.
Just don’t eat bats
Where is the meat on a bat anyway

I wish it was like that. Mad cow disease, bird flu, swine flu, foot and mouth disease just off the top of my head.
 

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Moderation is key. Meat wasn't central to our diet 150 years ago.

Anytime we fall out of balance environmentally or socially, we should get a correction like the stock market. Unless we prop it up like the stock market, and then we just get a bigger correction, just like the stock market.
 
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