This is the first entry for our Meatless Advocates group. We are a group that advocates for the reduction of meat/livestock consumption for better health, animal rights, global food crisis, food safety, public health and to mitigate the immense contribution of livestock/meat production to climate change and resource depletion.
We feed almost half the world's grain to livestock, returning only a fraction in meat...while millions starve
It takes 16 pounds of grain and soybeans to produce just 1 pound of beef in the US
Does that information sound shocking and new to you? Well it shouldn't because that information was included in Frances Moore Lappe's book
"Diet For A Small Planet" which was written in 1971!
Frances Moore Lappe has written a 20th anniversary edition to her book which includes the following:
producing one pound of steak uses 2,500 gallons of water! Livestock production, including water fed to US crops fed to livestock aboard , account for about half of all water consumed in the US.
Do you suppose we've had enough time to think about this? Especially in these days of severe
water crisis and irrefutable
evidence of livestock's production connection to climate change. We've had more than enough time to think and do something about this. We
can not mitigate climate change without a change to our diets .
What's good about this is that we have the power to make the change and it is as easy as having a meatless meal. Have one and then another and you are on your way.
The tools for a meatless meal are recipes and here are some from the out of print first edition of the iconic "Diet For A Small Planet" or check out my series Macca's Meatless Monday for almost 3 years of weekly meatless recipes!