This is the Tom Hartman program.

We have climate disasters happening all over the planet.

We've had our share of them here in North America as well.

And one of the things that is feeding this is meat.

The consumption of meat around the world is contributing about 10% of the greenhouse

gases out there.

So you've got, on the one hand, scientists, climate scientists saying that we all need

to eat less meat and revisit how we do agriculture.

And then also you've got the Lancet, the British Medical Journal.

This was a new report published in the British Medical Journal Lancet recommends a largely

plant-based diet, a group of scientists from around the world who studied nutrition and

food policy, deliberated for three years and said that around the world meat consumption

should drop by 50%.

Now that's for health.

That's to reduce the number of heart attacks, to reduce the number of strokes, to reduce

the amount of obesity and the concomitant type 2 diabetes and problems that follow along

with that.

Another separate, completely separate study was published in the journal Nature that essentially

said the same thing.

In fact, here's the abstract health risks associated with meat consumption or review of

epidemiological studies.

This was in the journal of nutrition research.

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