China Plans To Reduce Meat Consumption

China’s health ministry released new dietary guidelines — with profound implications.

The guidelines encourage the nation’s 1.3 billion people to reduce their meat consumption by 50% between now and 2030.

If achieved, these guidelines would lead to a reduction in meat consumption that would be greater than all the meat currently consumed in the United States.

Their reasons are:

As Dr. T. Colin Campbell documented in “The China Study,” the rapid rise in Chinese meat consumption has produced exploding rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.

Tragically, more than 114 million people in China are now suffering from diabetes, according to a 2013 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And 28% of men and 27% of women are overweight or obese, as found in a paper published in The Lancet.

The primary goal of these new guidelines is to improve the health of the Chinese people. But this dramatic change would also have an extraordinary impact on the world’s climate, water supplies, and food security. Millions of lives would be saved, and greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by a billion tons per year.

Doesn’t really matter what their reasons are, but if it leads to less killing at the slaughter-houses and less suffering at the factory farms, it is a good thing.

Can we hope the Yulin festival will come to an end?

Change begins with us.