By Carlos Carrillo

Is eating meat a healthy choice? As far as I remember I was raised eating all types of meat, I can tell you that I ate at least one portion of this protein every day while I lived with my parents. Moreover, it is a quite normal diet for a country where the livestock farming accounts for a significant portion of the GDP (Tapasco, Lecop, Ruden, Rivas, & Ortiz, 2019). I was always told that I must eat meat to grow healthy and strong, besides I cannot deny that I enjoy eating a juicy piece of beef. However, ten years ago, I started to notice that several anti-meat movements had arisen as well as studies of which associated meat consumption with diseases such as cancer. Hence, I became involved in the topic, consequently, I began to make my research what it led to me to read various scientific articles. Yet, it was not until I watched “What the health” a fascinating documentary on Netflix which thoroughly explains the correlation between meat and cancer that I made up my mind to change my diet.

As if this were not enough, several studies have demonstrated that meat production has a severe environmental impact (Carrington, 2018). Having said that, I do not pretend you to stop eating meat, I have not even stopped eating it, yet I have considerably reduced its consumption. Besides, you can start making a few changes, and you will surely improve with time. I can assure you that this brings you great satisfaction to your life. I highly urge you to validate all that I written here so that you can begin your way to a better lifestyle.

Here, I leave the link so that you can watch the documentary:

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References

Carrington, D. (2018). Huge reduction in meat-eating ‘essential’ to avoid climate breakdown. The guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/10/huge-reduction-in-meat-eating-essential-to-avoid-climate-breakdown

Tapasco, A., Lecoq, J., Ruden, A., Rivas, J., & Ortiz, J. (2019, Aug. 6). The Livestock Sector in Colombia: Toward a Program to Facilitate Large-Scale Adoption of Mitigation and Adaptation Practices. Frontiers. Retrieved from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00061/full

Youtube. (2019, May. 11). What the Health. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGF8CZoSlAk&t=33s