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Quote by: DEEJ85  It is true that Humans these days are suffering from early onset chronically debilitating diseases. This seems to have only started happening recently.
Yet we have been dining on meat for thousands of years.
If meat was the cause of these major health problems, Shouldn't we see these health problems leading back thousands if not millions of years?
Perhaps the current trend of health problems relating to diet are caused by the current trends of food processing or preparation.
If meat was that bad, then we would see its affects before the major food epidemic of our time. It would have to also affect all cultures that consume meat. |
Meat accessibility in the form of fast foods is making it easier for people consume more than in the past millenium. Just look at the retail landscape; it is littered with MacDonalds, KFC, Burger King.....etal!!!!
The quality of meat today leaves a lot to be desired, my grandmother isn't vegetarian and she is 92yrs young, she says that the quality isn't like it used to be, she should know she grew up on a farm, they killed their own animals.
The quality issue is that as more countries become affluent they want to partake in consumption of meat, that is seen as a status symbol of wealth, particularly in China. Unfortunately the global ecology, & the meat & dairy industry is straining under the demand to produce the crops for the animal we consume, therefore the industry is forced to implement more efficient means to 'manufacture' the meat.
The cause of "mad cow" was discovered to be due to feeding the corpses of other dead animals not fit for human consumption to cattle. This practice was borne out of desperation to get a financial return from diseased animals not fit for human consumption, again efficiency....
Growth hormones are used to force the animals to grow faster. A consequence of human consumption of these GH is the earlier maturation of young teenage girl ie menopause starting younger.
Additionally intensive agri practices in the rearing of animals has caused the emergence of virulent diseases, H5N1, SARS, this monoculture is a breeding ground for virus & bacteria. Is that burger really worth the onset of a global pandemic?
The USA produces a lot of crops as animal feed, the majority of this feed is from crops that have been genetically modified(eg to enhance crop yield....etc), so consumers indirectly end up consuming GMO, most people don't believe that GMOs have enough of an track record for safe consumption, I don't, and probably never will, what about you Dee??
Just some of the concerns about meat quality....:(