Beef in mushroom sauce, BigMac hamburgers, beef steak, beefsilog, bulalo especial - food that now must be banned from our dining tables, that is, if you’re an activist for nature. Scientists have narrowed down into three C’s nature’s most deadly enemies: chainsaws, combustion and cattle, being the main contributor. But how does a black and white spotted mammal moo nature to destruction? It doesn’t, but our appetite can.
Human consumption of meat has risen to levels that demand more cattle butchering and slaughtering. To maintain the population of cattle needed to feed the flesh-hungry masses, we pamper the steak animals with lush green fields to roam in. I am not aware of any activities involving genetically produced cattle like the rumored KFC secret. So unless we are artificially producing fat headless cattle meat, we beef-up the beef the old fashion way. The price: forest land area.
Hectares of high rise trees are converted to flat grass lands for cattle frolicking. A habitat of many species is easily converted into a playground of one. It is biodiversity sacrificed for human carnality. The funny thing is, according to dentists our teeth are not of a carnivore. Doctors say that our intestines have a difficult time digesting meat and that meat eating is one of the causes of colon cancer. So why not go veggie?
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