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Originally Posted by Parthon  Well over 65% of these grains are fed to animals on feed lots as they are going to be slaughtered for meat for meat eaters. The grains that do end up feeding humans are overprocessed junk like cereals and breads.
A vegan diet that consists of mainly fruit and vegetables with proper agricultural methods is sustainable.
Animal based and grain based diets are both detrimental to the planet.
In all three cases, most people could do with eating less, which would require farmining less too. But we can't do that, because it would get in the way of the corporate machine. |
It is also the truth that in the last hundred and ten years or so the American diet has changed a lot. From eating a small portion of meat one or two times per week with what ever grains, vegetables and fruits that were available at the moment we have moved to a diet that is deemed deficient by the majority of citizens in the developed world if their is not ample portions of meat at each and every meal.
My grandfather and grandmother who were born in 1900 and 1902 respectively in a small rural farming community often spoke of feeling well off and well fed if they had meat for Sunday dinner. The rest of the week it was either left over meat from that Sunday dinner or meatless meals.
This was the way foods the working man and middle class lived at that time. They were still omnivores but the biggest portion of there food was not meat or meat products.