Fighting Starvation with Vegetarian Food

The World Health Organization has decided to fight starvation with Vegetarian Food since they considered it to be more economical and more nutritionally complete than meat. The evidence that supports this theories gives examples in which meat and cerealas are compared. The results of those comparisions show that 16 kg of cereals are equivalent to only 1 kg of meat proving that cereals have higher yield than meat.

Jean Mayer, a nutrition expert from Harvard said that only by reducing a %10 the meat production, the cereal crops will grow enough to feed 60 millions people. Several researches also showed that in the grow and crop of 1 kg of wheat only 60 lts of water are used, while the production of 1 kg of meat needs between 2,500 and 6,000 lts of water. This proves how much expensive may be to produce meat and the negative impact that this industrial activity may have on our planet by making water to be severly depleted. At the same time it has been already proved that the activity of husbandry farms is highly polluting the natural enviormnet of the areas where they function.

As well as proved to be more economical and planet friendly, vegetarian food is believed to be better for our health than meat. Dr. P. Airola, specialist in nutrition and natural biologist, says that eating too much proteins may have a negative impact in our health, especially in what refers to heart diseases. A human being is recomended to eat just 45 g of proteins per day, to which is not necessary to consume meat. This amount of protein can perfectly be obtained from a %100 vegetarian diet.

According to the World Health Organization, the nutritional concepts have changed in the last 20 years. Certain beliefs related to the eating of meat have been displaced by relevant cientific evidence that proves that vegetables and fruits have a great contribution in a satisfactory nutritional diet. Under this theories more and more people are becoming vegetarians at time at which this type of food is being used in the wordly fight against starvation in poor countries.