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“Isn’t this too cruel!”
“What would a villager Yeongju know? I will stay with this taste, child.”
“You don’t have to eat it with so much pain.”
“You ignorant Num, you mean the eels are feeling the pain?!”
When we went to eat eel, we would argue lightly about whether fish feel pain or not. When I first ate Sekoshi, I couldn't eat it because of the thorns in it, but now I just can't eat sashimi because it's bland, but I still don't like eel.
There is nothing more individual than individual taste in food. I envy anyone who eats anything well. He is from the inland region of Gyeongbuk, where it is difficult to even look at fish or seafood unless it is a festival or feast day, and he has an unusually short mouth. I used to be bruised by the elders for saying 'I eat rice in bits and pieces,' and even after marriage, I heard nagging at every meal from my wife saying that I was a picky eater.
However, the interesting thing is that before I came to the city, my diet was almost 'vegan'. My favourite foods have always been potatoes, tofu, kimchi, miso, and various fruits. The fish was nowhere to be seen except mackerel, but I didn't even put it in my mouth because of the fishy smell. The only meat was a single piece of beef or lean chicken, which the adults could not resist on the feast day. The seafood (?) I ate voluntarily was seaweed, but when I was young, I didn't even know seaweed or seaweed was seaweed. I liked bread and rice cakes, and I also enjoyed flour foods such as noodles and ramen. I couldn't eat because I didn't have milk, and I didn't eat eggs well.
If you look at your diet, you can't help but be an almost perfect vegan who doesn't even eat milk or eggs. This eating habits gradually changed when I started my college life in Seoul, and now I enjoy eating pork belly or beef, but I still do not enjoy seafood.
As people become more concerned about the environment due to climate change, more and more people stop eating meat. Notwithstanding, the livestock industry is responsible for 17% of the total greenhouse gas emissions. The number of livestock raised for human meat consumption is enormous. As of last year, there were about 1.3 billion cattle, 1 billion each of pigs and sheep, and 20 billion chickens. About 2 billion people in Africa and other parts of the Third World suffer from hunger and malnutrition, but most of the corn and soybeans that humans produce are consumed for livestock. Brazil is burning the Amazon rainforest at this very moment in order to grow soybeans. Reducing meat consumption globally, not at the individual level, is the right diet for the people of the planet to cope with the climate crisis.
Of course, being vegan or vegetarian is not the answer to all these problems. Humanity's habit of eating meat since the Palaeolithic cannot be abandoned overnight. A meat diet is also necessary for effective nutritional supplementation. However, as now, excessive consumption of meat should be reduced. Reducing consumption of meat and fish, or halting large-scale factory livestock raising, large-scale monoculture, large-scale aquaculture and trawling, can stop the climate crisis.
overpayment. Too much of anything is the problem. You should also eat in moderation and not lose your balance. It will not be easy to go back to being vegan again because I already know the taste of meat and Sekoshi, but I need to reduce my consumption of meat and seafood in the future.
In order to save the global environment, many people are choosing a vegetarian diet. Can quitting meat eating and switching to a vegetarian diet save the planet and humanity? How well do we understand the world we live in? Some people wonder whether it is right and honest to abstain from eating meat and to be vegan (vegan). An article related to this was reported in The Guardian on August 16, 2016.
Lives and livelihoods around the world that depend entirely on livestock, and efforts to reduce the impact on our diet still involve meat, milk and eggs.
Veganism is not a simple solution to the sustainability that George Monbiert recently advocated. I hope it's that simple too. I encourage you to take steps to change your eating habits to reduce their environmental impact, but a vegan world - no one consumes meat, milk and eggs - is not how we achieve sustainable global development .
Some argue that veganism is the best diet to feed the world's growing population due to environmental impacts. But research shows otherwise. A study published in the United States last month compared 10 different eating patterns and concluded that foods containing some animal sources (especially milk and eggs) use less land than vegetarian alternatives.
This is because it feeds people through the optimal use of land for a more inclusive food culture. This includes arable land and pasture land where crops and hay can be grown for raising livestock. Much meat and milk, which would otherwise be counterproductive in a vegetarian environment, is produced on minimal pasture. For example, 60% of sub-Saharan Africa is covered by dry areas, which are mainly livestock-based and often multi-use land.
Decades of research have shown that moderate levels of livestock grazing are better for health, productivity and biodiversity than no grazing at all. If well managed, these areas also absorb large amounts of carbon from the soil.
People in high-income countries may be able to do a lot to reduce their dietary impact on the world. For example, they can control all the food they eat and reduce the amount they consume. Food consumption accounts for up to 50% of global production and 7% of total greenhouse gas emissions.
Above all, livestock is essential for the majority of the world's poorest people and cannot simply be thrown away. In a lower-middle-class economy where livestock accounts for 40-60% of agricultural GDP, domesticated animals provide a livelihood for nearly a billion people, most of whom are women. Cows, goats, sheep, pigs and chickens are rare assets that give the poor a certain household income, and can be sold to pay for schools or hospitals in an emergency. For those who have to live on cheap grains and tubers, which puts malnourished and stunted children at risk, livestock can provide food rich in energy and inorganic nutrients. Foods containing meat are especially important for pregnant women, young babies, and young children.
When so many lives and livelihoods depend on animals, should we really consider a scenario where African families are deprived of the opportunity to raise chickens or a pair of cows? Or preventing Asian families from keeping pigs on small plots? Or what gets in the way as shepherds move their goats, sheep and cattle across the drylands?
As in any other sector, livestock production faces challenges. Livestock production is a major user of water and other natural resources, and greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production contribute to climate change. Moreover, excessive consumption of animal-based foods can lead to obesity and poor health (many human infectious diseases originate from livestock and other animals). In addition, excessive use of antibiotics and animal welfare in overheated livestock production systems should be considered.
These challenges, highlighted by various institutions today, should not persuade us to turn away from livestock. Instead, we should encourage them to pay more attention to livestock production. It will provide the greatest environmental and social benefits to people around the world at the lowest cost. Through scientific advances and enlightened policy making.
People in wealthy countries who advocate veganism, or certainly meat and other types of food, advocate vegetarianism in the context of food gluts. But consider the multitude of people who are not so lucky. It would be a tragedy if good intentions wounded some of the world's most vulnerable people.
Whatever our passions or whatever “sides” of the vegan debate we're drawn to, we must overcome the temptation to seek simple answers to sustainability challenges in the world's complex contexts. Describing livestock as demons is one wrong answer. In order to achieve truly sustainable development, we must lead to the correct use of livestock - and all other natural resources that we freely own.
Dr. Jimmy Smith is the Executive Director of the International Livestock Research Institute.
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