Should We Eat Meat?

Buchzusammenfassung

Vaclav Smil is an interdisciplinary researcher who has authored hundreds of books and papers on energy, the environment, and population development, food production, the history of technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy.

The fact that we can survive without meat does not mean we have to. Although it may be true that current meat production methods and rates raise various environmental and animal rights concerns, what we need to do is not avoid meat altogether, but produce it in more rational ways.

"Life’s great dichotomy is between autotrophs, organisms that can nourish themselves, and heterotrophs, or life forms that must feed on other organisms."

"Most people in affluent and middle-income countries worry about what is best to eat in order to maintain or improve their health and extend their longevity, not whether they will have enough to survive."

"Energy is the only truly universal currency, and nothing (from galactic rotations to ephemeral insect lives) can take place without its transformations."

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