Sounds like he's intelligent not to be swayed by the fruitwagon... I consume what best suits my aspects...I know! I about crapped my pants when he told me. But I don't think he's lying. I've never met anyone as intelligent as he is... in ALL areas. Math, science, you name it. It all makes perfect sense to him. He's very logical, but can think outside the box, too. He boggles my mind sometimes... and I don't exactly have a low IQ myself! I think last time I was tested, it was 152? Somewhere around there. I don't remember the exact number.
There is no shortage of food, just too few vegetarians.
This is hogwash. There is no shortage of food, period. It has nothing to do with eating meat. If you took what Americans throw away, you could feed the entire rest of the world.
just fyi, there are a lot of great reasons to go vegetarian:
health, socio economic, environmental and moral reasons are all big reasons.
for example, did you know the following?:
Meat production turns abundance into scarcity. You need an average 16lbs of grain to produce one pound of beef, 6 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of park, 3 pounds of grain to produce one pound of chicken and 5.3 pounds of fishmeal to produce 1 pound of farmed fish, Doesn't it make sense to eat the grain and feed more people? .
We can ensure every human being on this planet was well fed if we adopted a vegetarian diet. In fact, if the Americans alone cut back their current meat consumption by 10% they could feed the 60 million around this world who are starving today. There is no shortage of food, just too few vegetarians.
a decent site with some food for thought on these matters here:
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And do we really want these people to become dependant on the grain we send them?
If you would eliminate the corrupt governments and warlordships that regularly use the 'food weapon' as a means of power and influence in their own areas of influence then distributing the food that is produced would be much easier. There would be very few hungry people worldwide.
There are more calories of foodstuffs produced now than there ever were, and it is cheaper and more available than it ever has been. There are warlords in Somalila that are sitting on vast stores of food because they want to control the population
More than a little bit sad.
(I am agreeing with you.)
i'm not sure what people are arguing about.
the point is that meat is wasteful. read it again -- it takes 16 lbs of grain to produce 1 lb of beef.
if you do your research you'll find it is our meat industry that is dependent on international grain to fatten up our livestock. i.e. the locals go hungry sending grain to america so our cows can get fat and we can make mcdonalds burgers.
America does not import grain to feed livestock. There is not enough profit in beef/meat production to warrant shipping grain from overseas.
MY point is that meat production does not stress the grain supply in the least. In fact it provides a market demand so grain producers can stay in business.
i say if you "appreciate steak" thats a strike against your intellect right there.
if your friend, his wife and his kids are all overweight, does that sound very intelligent to you?