Cowspiracy

[AFTT47]

In terms of health for environment, Protein from Cows...

Here's something people need to get through their heads: WE DON"T NEED TO CONSUME PROTEIN. How do you think cows, rhinos and elephants get protein? The same way we get it: By building it from amino acids. In fact, protein from from a cow (or any other animal) is useless to a human body directly. The human body breaks down the cow protein to its component amino acids and then uses those to build human protein - a very inefficient process. It is much more efficient to get those amino acids from vegetable sources because they are much easier to extract.

On the other side of the equation, the herbivores that we eat need vegetable matter to grow so we have to cultivate vegetables to feed them anyway. More inefficiency. Cultivating vegetables for ourselves and bypassing the animals makes much more sense. This doesn't even consider climate change or ethical issues.

I won't address the issue of culinary preference. I really admire people like Robvalue and Bill Clinton who subjugate their own preferences 100% for the common good. I'm not quite there. I'm maybe 80% vegetarian, My biggest vice is cheese. I have a hard time resisting tuna too.