Tuesday, 5 September 2017

Environment, humans and non-veg diets

Humans digestive tract is a long one like that of the herbivorous animal.
While that of the gut of carnivorous animals is small & less unfolded.
This indicates that humans are suitable for vegetable diet.
Even evolution theory says humans are from monkeys which are herbivores.
But interestingly most of the human population relies on the non-veg diet.
This reliance on the non-veg diet is expensive in terms of environment. e.g., to grow a hen of a kilo weight we need many kilos of wheat. Instead, a kilo of wheat is sufficient for a diet of more than two individuals.
So we grow animals for food at the cost of many kilos of herbal diet.
This requires growing cereals in many acres of land by use of manures, pesticides etc. which is again polluting nature.
Similarly, we kill many birds, deer and other mild animals from the forest for sake of diet. This decreases their population drastically and is a cause of extinction.

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