Global and personal benefits of “eating green”
It takes six pounds of plant protein to produce a pound of beef. If you know nothing else, that fact helps drive home the central message on the environmental cost of Western-style diets now being adopted in developing nations that include China, India and Brazil – following Americans’ 33 percent increase in consumption of animal protein since 1960. This article for Hairloss.com reviews the global as well as personal reasons for adopting a diet that leans much more toward plant foods and away from animal sources of protein. It doesn’t mean we all have to turn vegetarian – it’s all a matter of proportions.