The Hidden Giant #1: “Food” — Vegetarianism : Planetsave

The Hidden Giant #1: “Food” — Vegetarianism : Planetsave: "."



At a time when environmental degradation and massive environmental problems have become increasingly obvious and harmful to human health (as well as the health and existence of many other species), meat production per person has nearly doubled. Granted, there are many contributors to the environmental crises we face, but this is one of the largest and, at the same time, one of the most hidden and least discussed.

For more information on the relationship between food and the environment, take a look at the UN FAO report or this webpage on the link between food and the environment.

We are the top of creation, as they say, and as we proceed, so does our planet.

We may proceed in destruction, including taking the lives of nature’s more highly evolved species to “satisfy” our tongue and stomach.

Or we may proceed in more highly evolved care for life.

Our actions come back to us.

It is a more important issue than saving the environment that sustains us, physically, but it is a critical issue in this realm as well and should not be ignored just because it is considered to be more important to the realm of morals and spiritual life.

Life is to be cherished, and not only the life of our own, but the lives of our brother and sister animals and organisms.

Without taking care for the lives of other highly evolved creatures, we threaten our own lives and the lives of our future generations.

This is a great forgotten issue in many environmental discussions and societies.