World may be forced to go vegetarian by 2050, scientists say | The Lookout - Yahoo! News
I came across this interesting article and wanted to know what you guys think about this?
World may be forced to go vegetarian by 2050, scientists say | The Lookout - Yahoo! News
I came across this interesting article and wanted to know what you guys think about this?
Nah, meat grown in vats will become normal once people get used to the idea.
Seriously, the crap they put into most meat products these days, we will all be better off when there isn't hooves to worry about!
Hell no i'd rather die.
Well then it's not all bad...
Fuck that shit, ill farm my own meat in my backyard if I have to -.-
we would be healthier :)
I love how everyone talks about becoming vegetarian when you (have to) eat less meat or even very little. Most people about 50 years ago only had money to have meat like once per week, there were times people were just mostly living of fruits and vegetables, this didn't mean they were vegetarian, just meant they couldn't afford a lot of meat.
That's where we need to head towards anyway, let's ignore the whole water thing for now, what's much worse is the fact that the diseases animals have, are getting worse and worse, the way we produce meat is just absolutely horrible for our health, we need to stop putting so much crap in them, we need to stop trying to make them grow faster then nature allows, we need to stop putting them in small holes and just allow them to live like they should, have some freedom, have proper food etc.
Yes this will raise the prices of meat big time, yes it will be the end of McDonalds, KFC, BK etc etc and most people will only eat meat once or twice per week, but hey, it will be safe, will be much healthier, taste better and will force us to eat healthier other foods.
vege is good but meat is better :)5
Mind explaining that?Originally Posted by earltop123
Meh, I couldn't care either way. Meat or no meat. I'd be happy to have something to eat everyday. I currently eat 6 meals a week.
I would do the same thing. :-)
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How will there not be enough water on crop lands, I don't understand how there won't be enough water as water never runs out?According to the Stockholm International Water Institute, "There will not be enough water available on current croplands to produce food for the expected 9 billion population in 2050 if we follow current trends and changes towards diets common in western nations."
everything runs out, but i guess its impossible for us to "finish" the waters on earth. also i recall they found water on the moon.
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Your actually wrong because the water on earth will never run out.
Source:Discovery Kids :: Tell Me - Will the Earth ever run out of water?No, the Earth will not run out of water. That's because the amount of water is always the same -- it just changes in form. Water from oceans, lakes and rivers evaporates into the atmosphere. There it becomes clouds and returns to Earth as rain or snow. Plants and animals consume water, but they also release water
I wonder how many people who claim this would raise and then kill their own animals, it is very different to buying flesh pre-packaged in the store.
Makes perfect sense, and it is healthier not only for us but for the environment.
Who knows - maybe synthetic meat will be perfected by then.
youre wrong.
they wont run out soon, thats for sure, but dont forget ppl take water, clean it in and make it able for drinking, washing and useable. they will run out, as theres a certain amount, and that amount will run out.
As long as animals are getting butchered, animals are getting bred. We won't be running out any time soon. I doubt shortages of meat will happen either.
In this day and age of genetic modification and super science I would imagine we could eat meat forever.
Meh, they already have animal cloning down packed. If we run short, they could just dump money into cloning more cows. Problem solved... Sorta.... It still takes an egg to make a cow... So yea... Maybe that wouldn't work on a mass scale, as eggs are pretty hard to come by, and they're only good for one use.
I think you might have missed the point of the article, as they do discuss this in the article itself. There is a certain amount of available water to be used on the Earth. While there is a massive amount of water on the planet itself, the vast majority of it is not usable without being treated. Treatment of water is both timely and expensive. Right now, according to the article, 70% of the planet's usable water supply is going towards sustaining the agricultural infrastructure. With an estimated population of 9 billion by the year 2050, more of this percentage will have to go towards sustaining this infrastructure. The problem, however, is there already isn't enough water to go around to people like you and me. Even in the United States some areas have to have water shipped in from other areas of the nation.
Indeed. Most people I've talked about this subject have said that they can't even stand it when you can still see it was an animal. So yay for chicken fillet, nay for fish with the head removed.
When we buy and eat meat, we are not thinking about eating an animal, just about eating food.
Personally I know I could never kill an animal for food as long as there were other options.
Actually our messing around with meat is causing the opposite. Right now 1 of the major problems is is that we're filling animals with hormones, either directly into them or through their food. To combat diseases etc we are filling them with anti-biotics and many other crap. What we are doing is producing meat and with that comes a shitload of problems and diseases. Frankly it's not the water or anything else that will force us to stop eating meat, but the way it's processed right now.
Our meat is reasonable safe right now, at least as far as we know, but many studies have shown that there will be a day where they won't be safe, basically the diseases evolve, right now we can still combat them, but we are running out, eventually we will be fucked, don't get me wrong, we won't die all the sudden since they are keeping some ways to combat diseases which are not allowed to use on animals just to keep them on hand if humans were to get ill from eating meat, but we are getting closer and closer to that point.
The problem is though that the whole world is addicted to meat and not just small amounts, most people in western countries expect meat on their plate everyday, it's just so cheap, I can easily afford 0,5 kilo meat on my plate everyday, that's how cheap it is.
thats just pro ;)
Lol, sorry but I couldn't help but laugh at that News story. Us running out of water for our Livestock is like the Sun running out of Gas. Our water sources come from a continuous cycle, just like the Sun's heat from the Nuclear Fusion in it's core. Whether there is a 'set amount of useable water' or not it will continue to recycle putting back the same amount of water that got taken away.
You drink water, what happens? You pee it out and it goes right back into the rivers/oceans. The Sun heats the oceans evaporating a bunch of the water, what happens? It goes back into the clouds, forms moisture and rains. You pour water on your garden, what happens? The water soaks into the soil and eventually evaporates back into the clouds forming moisture, and eventually rains. You fill your Livestock's water supply, what happens? All the animals drink the water and piss it back out into the soil, guess what happens next? - And in the case of these last 2 examples the dirt acts as a natural filter to filter out a lot of the bad stuff in the pee before it evaporates.
Now obviously just like the Sun, there will come a time down the road where there will be no more Gas, and no more Water on Earth, but those are in timelines of millions to billions of years - not less than 50 years. I don't think we need to be worrying about running out of water for our livestock, a more serious issue would be one of which Gohan was talking about.
Also;
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HowStuffWorks "How much water is there on Earth?"There's a whole lot of water on Earth! Something like 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons (326 million trillion gallons) of the stuff (roughly 1,260,000,000,000,000,000,000 liters) can be found on our planet. This water is in a constant cycle -- it evaporates from the ocean, travels through the air, rains down on the land and then flows back to the ocean.
/gg stupid "scientists"
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