Despite well publicized warnings of the risk of shortened lives and chronic disabilities from eating red and processed meats, global meat consumption has risen 20% in the last 20 years.
A new assessment published in Zero Carbon Analytics shows that wealthy countries in Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania consume high amounts of red and processed meat and face a substantial disease burden as a result, despite having well-resourced healthcare systems. Reducing the disease burden caused by processed meat by 30% could free up $21 Billion annually in healthcare spending in the US alone. This is enough money to pay the salaries of 247,000 skilled nurses.
It would also result in 350,000 fewer cases of type 2 diabetes, 92,500 fewer instances of cardiovascular disease, and over 53,000 fewer occurrences of colorectal cancer over a 10-year period.
Just think how many lives and how money (and land and water and animals and ecosystems and greenhouse gases we we save if everyone adopted a vegan diet.
Our source for this meme is Zero Carbon Analytics
A new assessment published in Zero Carbon Analytics shows that wealthy countries in Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania consume high amounts of red and processed meat and face a substantial disease burden as a result, despite having well-resourced healthcare systems. Reducing the disease burden caused by processed meat by 30% could free up $21 Billion annually in healthcare spending in the US alone. This is enough money to pay the salaries of 247,000 skilled nurses.
It would also result in 350,000 fewer cases of type 2 diabetes, 92,500 fewer instances of cardiovascular disease, and over 53,000 fewer occurrences of colorectal cancer over a 10-year period.
Just think how many lives and how money (and land and water and animals and ecosystems and greenhouse gases we we save if everyone adopted a vegan diet.
Our source for this meme is Zero Carbon Analytics
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