Well, I may be ancient but I wasn't around when the dinosaurs became extinct. However, I gather that they were wiped out by a single catastrophic event, and not one that gave them the luxury of adapting. Interestingly enough, the man who was responsible for putting lead in petrol was also the man who developed CFC's ! Pretty good going for one person, who was probably acting with the best intentions.
If you want to worry about the future, then worry about overpopulation, disease and war and less about promoting a particular lifestyle.
The nice thing about being an omnivore is that I enjoy fruit, vegetables and meat. I'm damned if I'm going to change now.
Those are all issues to worry about, but we can't do anything about them personally can we? Unless you want to figure out how to be in the bedrooms of the world???? Or have a way to over ride and improve on the efforts of the pharmaceutical industry? But what we can do personally is take meat and other animal products out of our lives.
I think though that if you are going to make this choice, you should know what the ramifications are. Animal agriculture is responsible for 51% of GHG emissions, the greatest single cause of loss of biodiversity on the planet, the greatest cause of massive deforestation globally, and the reason for the continual leaching of nitrates into the ocean which is slowly killing it. It also uses the majority of our fresh water supplies and cause more pollution from a variety of toxins, ranging from antibiotics to pesticides and herbicides. Those antibiotics by the way are in all likelihood, the exact reason why we are facing the issue of danger from superbugs. This is the choice that is being made and it doesn't just affect that individual who's choosing. It is ultimately affecting the world.
But yeah, you're not alone, there are lots of folks like you. Old habits die hard. I once knew a guy who had a massive heart attack and he was 'scared straight' for a year. Exercises, guarded his diet and he lost weight, he was looking good, and the last time we saw him, he'd given up the new lifestyle, looked awful and sickly with a bigger weight gain and was obviously a ticking time bomb. So yeah, habits are hard to break.
But we aren't the last generation, the young people are coming along and more and more people are learning to live a different way. And the great thing is, the majority of those who switch are women right now, and women are in charge of the home and the kitchen and kids diets by and large and those families will learn to live according to how those women are guiding them. So it will happen and government is getting behind the idea of at least 'less meat' and studies and technologies are proving the point and making the change possible. So I'm not mad at you or any of the folks here at all even though we disagree completely on this. I have every confidence it will happen but big changes take loooottts of time.
So hope you have a nice day Captain.
