The Pleasures of the Flesh

Like George Monbiot, I almost feel weary of saying this, but I really do feel it's urgent to say it, because clearly a lot of us are in flesh-addiction denial. The following quote is from The Pleasures of the Flesh � Celsias and says: "there is a bigger reason for global hunger, which is attracting less attention only because it has been there for longer. While 100m tonnes of food will be diverted this year to feed cars, 760m tonnes will be snatched from the mouths of humans to feed animals(9). This could cover the global food deficit 14 times. If you care about hunger, eat less meat."

Here are the comparisons, and later on the calculation is that we should eat no more than 30% of our present meat consumption in order to have a sustainable diet in flesh terms.

a vegan diet grown by means of conventional agriculture would require only 3m hectares of arable land (around half the current total)(13). Even if we reduced our consumption of meat by half, a mixed farming system would need 4.4m hectares of arable fields and 6.4 million hectares of pasture.