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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
As I make changes to my lifestyle to be more healthy, sustainable, efficient, etc, I still have "vegetarian diet" to attempt.
Beyond a food animal's diet, there is the fact that the amount of grain used to feed food-providing animals is orders of magnitude higher than the amount of grain that could directly sustain a human diet. And as we use up more agricultural land, increase our population, convert vegetable products to oil-replacement products like ethanol, etc, we will need to be much more efficient in our use of edible grains.
Farmers are already choking over the high cost of feedgrain, thanks to so much of it being redirected into our gas tanks. Eventually, quite a few of those animal farmers will be forced to give them up, and others will raise the price of meat to compensate for high grain prices, so high that few of us will be able to afford meat.
So it's in our, especially my, best interests to try to go vegetarian. Unfortunately, I am so thoroughly pre-conditioned to a meat-filled diet, that I haven't been able to take the plunge yet. I can't even imagine enjoying the process of eating, without meat. (Sad, huh?)
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You're absolutely right, of course. But, it is not an easy thing to make a transition like that. With or without meat, my diet tends to be horribly unhealthy ... but that's because I'm basically lazy about cooking.
That said ... I can live off of dry Cheerios, chocolate and Stewart's Grape Soda for several weeks with no particular ill effects.
