high intake of meat kills people//in china meat is eaten only 3 times or 3% of the time per year
" ... Mr Lei (now aged 51) ate pork only three times a year when he was growing up. The high intake of meat in the passed ten years has also caused a LOT of DISEASE amongs the people in China.
Even before the revolution of 1949, most people in China got only 3% of their annual calorific intake from meat.
Pork soon became scarcer still. Tens of millions died in the famine that followed Mao’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early 1960s. For decades after that peasants would rub pork fat around their woks to give their vegetables a meaty hint, says Ms Dunlop, before putting the fat away to use on another occasion.
As recently as the early 1990s many Chinese mostly subsisted on a diet of vegetables bought at street markets." Which also accounted for their longevity, often living to age 100 with very few health troubles along the way.
The higher intake of meat (mostly pork) has given rise to a lot of illness and death and total misery and brutal suffering for the factory farmed animals.
Even before the revolution of 1949, most people in China got only 3% of their annual calorific intake from meat.
Pork soon became scarcer still. Tens of millions died in the famine that followed Mao’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early 1960s. For decades after that peasants would rub pork fat around their woks to give their vegetables a meaty hint, says Ms Dunlop, before putting the fat away to use on another occasion.
As recently as the early 1990s many Chinese mostly subsisted on a diet of vegetables bought at street markets." Which also accounted for their longevity, often living to age 100 with very few health troubles along the way.
The higher intake of meat (mostly pork) has given rise to a lot of illness and death and total misery and brutal suffering for the factory farmed animals.
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I always find this stuff interesting, but I love my meat too much to give it up. I cut out red meat for a short while in college, but every now and then I craved a meatball sandwich or a hamburger. I mean, I wouldn\'t be able to even think about anything but beef. And when I went home, I had to eat whatever my mom made for me, so special diets went out the window, which sent my system reeling. I finally just gave up.
And now I\'m jonesing for a hamburger...I\'m so suggestible!! *HUGS*