Just about everybody I know eats meat and they think it’s good for them. They all say they want to be healthy. They all say they want to make our environment better. What they don’t know is that we waste 30-100 pounds of grain trying to fatten up chickens, cows and pigs so that the people who sell them can make more money because they weigh more. Did you know that livestock consume six times more than the dinosaurs ever did? We’re wasting all that food just to fatten up these animals when we could just use that food to feed the more than one billion people that are starving. To make all this grain, we need more farms. To make more farms, we need more land. If we want more land, we need to cut down forests. Why should we ruin our forests so we can grow a lot of grain to feed to these animals when we could just grow much less and eat it ourselves? This is better for our forests and better for all the people who don’t have enough food.
The brown area is where all the trees used to be. These trees were cut down by people.
Meat is also bad for our bodies because of the protein and fat that are in it. In America, we eat so much meat that the adult human population weighs over 315 million tons. The average person throughout the world weighs about 135 pounds but the average person in the United States is about 180 pounds. A lot of this extra weight is caused by eating too much meat. Having extra weight is unhealthy and can make us more likely to get all kinds of diseases like heart attacks and cancer. As you can see, eating animals is bad for our bodies. Eating animals is bad for the people who are starving all over the world. Eating animals is bad for our forests and the environment. So, if you want to be healthy and help feed starving people and take care of the environment, try not to eat meat.
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