Essay On Meat Dilemma

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Vidur Maheshwari
4/8/14
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The Meat Dilemma

We humans have an insatiable need for food. Whether we are hungry or not we still find a way to eat, whether it is that ice cream that you had after you were “stuffed”, or that soda, that you just found some room to fit into the remaining nooks and crannies?. As the world is getting richer, this need for food has led to a massive increase in the amount of meat eaten by the average person. The USDA found that American eats fifty-seven pounds more meat than they did in the 1950’s. In addition, the meat market has quadrupled since 1961 from 70 million tons, to 300 million in 2013.

But, how much meat is too much meat. The USDA estimates that the average American eats two hundred and seventy pounds of meat every year. That is around the weight of a household cat, or eleven ounces a day with meat as a central part of every single meal. As crazy as it may seem, the news gets worse because of the amount of meat that the rest of the world eats in almost half of what us Americans eat. The average person in the rest of the world eat around a hundred and two pounds of meat a year. Not only that, but the eleven ounces a day that Americans eat is more than three times the amount that is generally accepted as the daily meat intake a person should have by the Dietitians of Canada. This problem, though widespread, especially affects men who eat two times the red meat compared to women.

One of the most commonly eaten meats is the hamburger, it was the start of the fast food industry, but just that quarter pound of beef takes a lot of work, and resources to make. NPR found that a burger takes 6.2 pounds of feed, and 52.8 gallons of water, or the same amount of wat...

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...ng solution is to not quit meat cold turkey. As Oscar Wilde said, “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” One popular solution to this not eat meat one day a week, or a Meatless Monday. Even though meat might seem to be extremely detrimental to not only human life, it is only bad for people if they have too much meat as meat, and other protein-rich foods are important to the daily food intake of people. If we replaced the quarter pound hamburger with a quarter pound of tofu, we could save 5 pounds of food for other people, and that replacement would reduce the emissions, risks to your body, and effects on the environment. In addition the 2012 Harvard Study found if you replaced a serving of red meat with a serving of nuts a week we could lower our mortality risk by 19% and by 14% if replaced by whole grains.bring intro back in. This ends rather abruptly.

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