Why you should eat less meat

So, obviously, this post is not a recipe. It is only my thoughts about why a person should eat less or no meat at all. Feel free to share your opinion in comment.

There is 3 different reasons why you should try to eat less meat or no meat at all. The first one is because of the animal cruelty that is caused by the meat industry. Second one is for your health and third one is to help the planet. Let me explain them a little more.


Animal cruelty caused by the meat industry
The meat industry wants to make money like any other industry. In order to make more money, they needs to be efficient in the way they treat their product, the animals. The animals we eat don’t have an happy life because it is way more efficient to have a lot of them in a small area where they can’t move and play and to feed them with food that will make them big but not necessarily healthy.

Your health
To eat meat is good for you because that give you the proteins you need to be healthy. However, you can find those proteins in some other food that is not that fat. Also, it can be dangerous to eat to much meat and could lead to some disease.

To help the planet
The meat industry pollutes the environment on so many levels. Animal excrements pollute the water, the energy needed to make their food pollutes as well and the fuel to bring them to the grocery store is another form of pollution.

It is understandable that you might like the taste of meat and are not ready to be a vegetarian. But if everybody avoid meat one or two days a week, it would help the planet and their health. However, to reduce animal cruelty it would take more than that. For example,  buying meat from a small local farm.