The World Isn’t Going Vegan Any Time Soon

<p>In 1960, the world population reached&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">3 billion people</a>. Sixty years later, and it hasn&rsquo;t quite trebled yet, although we&rsquo;re likely to get there in the next decade.&nbsp;<a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-consumption-by-type-kilograms-per-year" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Meat consumption</a>, however, has more than quadrupled in the same time.&nbsp;I&rsquo;ll save you the trouble and do the maths: per capita meat consumption has more than doubled in the last 60 years.</p> <p><a href="https://www.unep.org/resources/whats-cooking-assessment-potential-impacts-selected-novel-alternatives-conventional" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">A recent report by the UNEP (United Nations Environment Program) projects that global meat consumption will double again by 2050</a>. It doesn&rsquo;t look like the world is going vegan anytime soon.</p> <p>That&rsquo;s not good news for our planet. Animal agriculture&rsquo;s impacts on the environment are much higher than those of crops directly fed to humans.&nbsp;<a href="https://medium.com/the-taoist-online/without-meat-eaters-farm-animals-would-be-doomed-b21b2d571578?sk=adc7d9f7c7b11b071a38f4143d57b83b" rel="noopener">Although farm animals might not be at risk of extinction any time soon</a>, several other species are.&nbsp;<a href="https://medium.com/the-taoist-online/the-world-is-on-track-to-surpass-3-c-this-century-0cd2947b85f8?sk=ddb23466ef9b61d325c64546ac882cdd" rel="noopener">If we&rsquo;re to curtail climate change</a>, a reduction in meat and dairy production is crucial.</p> <p><a href="https://thetaoist.online/the-world-isnt-going-vegan-any-time-soon-fdabc821309c"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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