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Maybe it's time for a lifestyle change away from our meat-centric eating habits. My area, which used to be heavily into small scale family dairy farms, has evolved into two mega factory dairies (populated by Hispanic "slave" labor) and a patchwork of small, mostly organic, beef, pork, poultry, and mutton producers, as well as organic vegetable farms and green houses. It's amazing the volume of food produced by the vegetable farmers on not much land, compared to the meat producers, who feature "grass fed" rather than feedlots.There are, reportedly, quite a few people in US slaughterhouses and meat processing facilities who have become sick.
Same people that have 144 rolls of toilet paper. Just have the words potential shortage hit the news and you will have an actual shortages (how temporary?) in just a few days.A good friend of mine went to the grocery store this morning for their biweekly run. Texted me saying meat was scarce.
Same people that have 144 rolls of toilet paper. Just have the words potential shortage hit the news and you will have an actual shortages (how temporary?) in just a few days.
How many of these people actually have the freezer space to store the extra food?
Maybe I could get by with eating meat once or twice less a week, same with a lot of other people, most ot the shortage solved at least for now. But with only a few cubic ft of freezer space and no place to put a freezer in the house (live in Florida, you could put the freezer outside but the electric cost in 90-100 degree weather would be????)
Same people that have 144 rolls of toilet paper. Just have the words potential shortage hit the news and you will have an actual shortages (how temporary?) in just a few days.
How many of these people actually have the freezer space to store the extra food?
Maybe I could get by with eating meat once or twice less a week, same with a lot of other people, most ot the shortage solved at least for now. But with only a few cubic ft of freezer space and no place to put a freezer in the house (live in Florida, you could put the freezer outside but the electric cost in 90-100 degree weather would be????)
Non-haem iron is readily available, but not as easily absorbed so you need to consume a lot of green vegetables to get enough.The hardest nutrient to get in a vegan diet, according to the vegans I have known, is iron. Many adults -- especially male adults -- could probably do fine with no animal protein in their diet without the use of any supplements. Women tend to have higher iron needs than men; without meat, they'd probably need supplements.
Note that I'm not a nutritionist, but if one asks a nutritionist (they'll have letters after their names, preferably PhD) they'd probably say that meat eaten by an average First World citizen is probably ten or twenty times what's needed for health and probably high enough to actually be detrimental to health.
Non-haem iron is readily available, but not as easily absorbed so you need to consume a lot of green vegetables to get enough.
However, B12, which is not manufactured by plants is not available without supplements: Office of Dietary Supplements - Vitamin B12
Me either, but there was an advertising campaign here that was along the lines of: "you need to eat 2kg of spinach to get the same amount of iron as a 200g steak" vegos all complained about it being misleading, but once the science came out...See, I told you I wasn't a nutritionist....