If you don't eat meat, what will people do?

The truth is that when people become abundant, people tend to buy more meat to eat. Increased demand for meat followed by supply was also expanded to develop, enough to meet the people.

As a result of environmental pollution, climate change , land use is becoming increasingly difficult to control.

Many people ask the question, what if one day the whole world boycotted meat - instead everyone just ate vegetables?

In 2009, researchers from the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency proposed what a greenhouse climate change situation would look like if humans reduced meat consumption or more completely boycotted meat.

According to statistics, the world consumes about 230 million tons of animal meat each year, twice as large as 30 years ago. We often raise and consume four basic animal meats: chickens - cows - sheep and pigs.

These animals also require a large amount of food and water and a huge amount of methane, which contributes to the global warming.

Along with that, they also release the environment of organic waste, polluting the environment and water sources . If this situation continues, our green planet will become "hot" more and more .

Therefore, experts say, the boycott of meat helps to reduce grain prices, reduce carbon dioxide emissions from agriculture by 21% by 2050 and increase energy reuse.

Experts say that even though stopping meat eating cannot completely block global warming, it also helps to mitigate climate change in the long run.

Another benefit that researchers mention is that huge plots of land are recovered from livestock production.

Danish scientists have calculated that nearly 30% of the freezing area of ​​the Earth is used to feed cows and to grow grass as a food source for animals.

Accordingly, there will be about 2.7 billion hectares of livestock land will be converted into natural land, 100 million hectares of land used for livestock farming will be liberated if we give up the habit of eating meat.

Third, a global boycott of meat will contribute to reducing the rate of antibiotic resistance . Currently, the habit of using antibiotics in animal husbandry in unsanitary conditions is the main cause of promoting weight gain and antibiotic resistance in humans.

In 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that at least 2 million Americans are infected by antibiotic resistance each year.

Overuse of antibiotics will increase the rate of drug resistance, leading to a more serious infection caused by bacteria that are greasy, leading to more difficult treatment.

Another point that experts want to mention is that the world ceases to consume animal meat in 1-2 centuries whether it is enough to help restore the economy.

In the 2010 UN report on environmental destruction caused by meat consumption, livestock production accounts for about 14% of the world's total GDP.

However, the production and trade of animal products accounts for about 1.3 billion jobs and 987 million of them are poor. Therefore, if the demand for meat products suddenly disappears, these people will not know how to continue their lives.

Although many arguments have been made, experts insist that imagining the prospect of not eating meat by everyone in the world will not come true.

But each person should also try to reduce the amount of animal meat consumption. This can help reduce methane emissions from cattle, sheep and goats as well as recover some of the land devoted to livestock.

Because, by 2050, when the world population increases to 9 billion people, if we cannot recover 25% of the land used for livestock, we will no longer have a place to live.

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