Living longer and lowering mortality rates from cancer (it's inevitable if you live long enough that it'll come into your life at some point these days) is a wonderful idea, idealistically, however there is no point living cancer free if you're just going to starve to death.
At present six times what would feed the entire world in grains and food stuff is fed to pigs in the United States. One country, one industry, six times. Eating meat is not economically, ecologically, or in any way a viable food source, as science fiction authors and philosophers have been expounding since even the 1800's. Due to the population of humans reaching such a critical mass, it is inevitable that we will need to identify these issues and begin to look into an alternative.
Eating meat, however, causes more cancers than smoking, and more disease than any other source. However, I'm not a vegetarian or being preachy here, I'm speaking objectively on world hunger and the food shortage that will, by Christmas this year, lead to over a million deaths.
As an aside, the African horn drought is killing millions of men, women, and most of all children. They are vulnerable and need our aid. Think before being a glutton and eating ten kilo's of crap this Christmas. Ask yourself whether you need a 60" plasma or whether you could manage to somehow find a way to live with a 58" and give the extra $500 to charity. The Red Cross have an appeal going for it atm, so hop on over to their site, make a world of difference to some poor unfortunate sods, and have a less gluttonous and guilt free Christmas and NY!
cure for cancer or end world hunger?
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Living longer and lowering mortality rates from cancer (it's inevitable if you live long enough that it'll come into your life at some point these days) is a wonderful idea, idealistically, however there is no point living cancer free if you're just going to starve to death.
At present six times what would feed the entire world in grains and food stuff is fed to pigs in the United States. One country, one industry, six times. Eating meat is not economically, ecologically, or in any way a viable food source, as science fiction authors and philosophers have been expounding since even the 1800's. Due to the population of humans reaching such a critical mass, it is inevitable that we will need to identify these issues and begin to look into an alternative.
Eating meat, however, causes more cancers than smoking, and more disease than any other source. However, I'm not a vegetarian or being preachy here, I'm speaking objectively on world hunger and the food shortage that will, by Christmas this year, lead to over a million deaths.
As an aside, the African horn drought is killing millions of men, women, and most of all children. They are vulnerable and need our aid. Think before being a glutton and eating ten kilo's of crap this Christmas. Ask yourself whether you need a 60" plasma or whether you could manage to somehow find a way to live with a 58" and give the extra $500 to charity. The Red Cross have an appeal going for it atm, so hop on over to their site, make a world of difference to some poor unfortunate sods, and have a less gluttonous and guilt free Christmas and NY!