Healthy Eating, Healthy World by J. Morris Hicks & J. Stanfield Hicks

Author:J. Morris Hicks & J. Stanfield Hicks [Hicks, J. Morris]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Health
ISBN: 9781936661268
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
Published: 2011-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

Something has to give. With the world’s population projected to reach 9 billion by 2050, we’re in for some serious price hikes in food unless the balance in what we eat changes soon. Clearly, the path we’re taking is not going to work in the future. The obvious solution would be a planned, systematic shift in the direction of consuming primarily plant-based food, but the reverse is happening. Millions of people in the developing world who grew up eating plants are now rushing to buy animal-based foods as soon as they can afford them.

As Julian Cribb explains in The Coming Famine, “The first thing people do as they climb out of poverty is to improve their diet. Demand for protein foods such as meat, milk, fish, and eggs from consumers with better incomes, mainly in India and China but also in Southeast Asia and Latin America, is rising rapidly. This in turn requires vastly more grain to feed the animals and fish.”[186] As a person comes out of poverty, he naturally feels that “improving” his diet means copying what the wealthier people have been eating for a long time. Eric Schlosser in Fast Food Nation provides another reason for the adoption of this new diet: “The anthropologist Yunxiang Yan has noted that in the eyes of Beijing consumers, McDonald’s represents ‘Americana and the promise of modernization.’”[187] Little do they know that while they may begin to crave the calorie-dense foods, “improvement” in terms of their health is not part of the bargain, and neither is their continued ability to be able to afford the “rich” foods they have recently learned to love.

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