Why reducing meat eating is the best thing you can do to the planet in 2019

A scientific search of last year has made clear the great impact that meat eating, particularly eating steak and pork meat, is in the environment through fostering climate change and soil pollution and underground water resources.

Industrialized agriculture and the beginning of the most severe crisis of species extinctions since dinosaurs mean that humans and livestock now make 96 percent of all mammals. Despite the use of most agricultural land, however, meat and milk products offer only 18 percent of all food calories and about a third of the protein.

Farm meat, except it is inefficient, is also harmful. Deforestation for animal food spaces, along with the release of the methane from the cows, causes gas emissions in the same amount as car gases, trucks, and airplanes worldwide. The practice of breeding meat endangers other animals and causes pollution in streams, rivers, and oceans.

In October last year, some scientists said that climate change could be fought through a 90 - percent reduction in meat consumption and five times the consumption of peas and other foods of plant origin.

The decline must also take place in the use of pork, milk, and eggs, since the world's population is expected to rise to two billion more people by 2050. Researchers say that the world must change its diet to prevent global temperature from rising by two degrees, as set out by world governments.

A series of measures have been proposed to achieve that goal. These include taxes on red meat and cow feed on algas to reduce the amount of methane. Some activists have advised people to eat more insects. The most accessible solution is also to promote vegetarianism through the production of artificial meat in the laboratory and other vegetarian foods.

Despite the selected route, there is still hope that the year 2019 will be a turning point for regulating the world's disorganized food system, writes the Guardian”,