Clearly diets that rely heavily on animal protein are responsible for the worst kind of enviromental destruction. And this series doesn't even focus on desertification caused by grazing cattle, Amazon forests clear-cut to provide farmland for soy, 80% of which is fed to animals intended for human consumption, and so on, all of which affect animals in the process, sending countless unknown species into extinction.
It's like an alarm bell is clanging, but no one is hearing it. This news is further behind the curve than global warming. An Inconvenient Truth focused on global warming, but the environmental crisis is much larger than that, and a key solution that needs to brought fully into the mainstream is a plant-based diet, especially before meat consumption grows astronomically in developing countries.
Each article in the series is on the long side, so you may want to print to PDF and read at your convenience. I strongly recommend doing so. It's probably one of the most important ongoing stories I've ever read in a newspaper. Today I found myself emotionally raw reading about the plight of poisoned sea lions. You'll be moved, more informed, and hopefully you'll be more motivated to help do something about it.
Labels: environment, wildlife
