This is the title of this interesting meeting and debate, organized by the Chamber
Friulana from LAC (League for the Abolition of Hunting
) Saturday afternoon and held in Pordenone in
site Palazzo Gregoris. The conference, moderated by the local manager of the LAC
Attorney Alessandra Marchi, who has had
actors as speakers, Dr
LUCIANA BARONI, MD, specialist in Neurology, Geriatrics and Gerontology
, an expert on vegetarian nutrition,
president of the Scientific Society of Nutrition and Vegetarian
PROF. Gianni Tamino, Professor of Biology
General at the 'University of Padova,
expert on the environment, waste, energy, biotechnology and sustainability
,
Member of the House of Representatives from 1983 to 1992 and the Parliament
Europe from 1995 to 1999.
Dr. Baron explained
promptly and effectively caused serious consequences on human health from consumption
increasingly disproportionate meat and animal products
by the vast majority of Western countries
. In fact, atherosclerosis, hypertension, cancer
and obesity are chronic diseases that afflict people in rich countries
, arteriosclerosis and obesity,
also occur more often in the age
child just because of recruitment fatty foods.
against the risk of these diseases there is a solution
simple, but still little known and disclosed by the same doctors
: the vegetarian or vegan diet
associated with physical activity. Dr. Baroni was clear
a vegetarian diet would reduce, in Italy, by 26%
mortality from cardiovascular disease. In addition,
the same guidelines for the prevention of cancer
stress the importance of plant-based diet.
The beneficial effects of vegetarian diets are unequivocal
with reference to diseases such as obesity, osteoporosis and Parkinson
.
In turn, the prof. Tamino has analyzed the relationship between dietary
Western countries and the environment,
identifying the presence of factory farming and
the excessive consumption of meat (over 100 grams per day)
a major cause of environmental disaster. Suffice
think that farm animals produce enormous quantities
methane, which contributes to one fifth of total greenhouse gas emissions
. To produce 1 kg of beef, it
pollutes more than 3 cars to circulate for a day full
! In addition, to produce a pound of pork requires
14,910 gallons of water per pound of beef well
47,700 liters.
addition to this - tells Tamino - the consumption of meat is
one of the fundamental causes of death by starvation of millions of human beings
poor countries. Increasingly large territories
of these countries are, in fact, removed from the
forests for the cultivation of cereals,
intended for farm animals that will fill the bellies already
sated the West, instead
African populations of Southeast Asia, and Latin America. It
consider that 1 hectare of land planted with soybeans
produces 1800 pounds of vegetable protein, pasture and livestock
produces about 60 pounds of animal protein.
This will not only lead to war and famine. If
all humanity, in fact, wanted, like
Western countries, consume 80 kg of meat per person per year,
would have an area three times that of Earth
. And since we in the West can not
assume the right to be the only feed on animals
, the only possible solution is to reduce
drastically the consumption of meat in our diets.
The adoption of a vegetarian diet would reduce to 3 / 4 times
the need for land, energy and 30-40%
the water needs and the impact eutrophying. Tamino
concludes: it is the same FAO warned:
"men carnivores are destroying the Earth.
is not enough food for everyone. "
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