14 DAY TRIAL // Several studies that have until now hit the public eye argue that, all things considered, climate change and global warming will soon compel human society to drastically chance its dietary preferences.
While some say that it might not be such a bad idea if people worldwide were to embrace a vegan diet, others claim that switching to eating insects and laboratory-grown meat instead of beef, pork and the like is the right thing to do.
What these people are trying to say is that, given the amount of pressure raising livestock puts on the environment and also taking into account changes in weather patterns, it is high time that human society to bid sausages and hamburgers their eternal farewell.
Just in case some folks will wholeheartedly refuse to eat insects or lab-grown meat, professor Paul Ehrlich with the Stanford University in the United States has come up with another possibility: not-so-good and yet fairly old cannibalism.
Daily Mail tells us that, the way Paul Ehrlich sees things, it might be only a matter of time until lack of resources and overpopulation leave people with no choice except start chewing on their friends and family.
“We will soon be asking is it perfectly okay to eat the bodies of your dead because we’re all so hungry,” the Stanford University professor has reportedly told members of the press in a recent interview.
“We are moving towards resource wars. Humanity is moving in that direction with a ridiculous speed,” the academic goes on to comment on the dangers associated with overpopulation and a drop in global food resources.
Truth be told, there is plenty of evidence that food availability and even quality are likely to soon be an issue. Thus, a recent investigation has shown that, courtesy of chances in environmental conditions, certain crops gave high chances to become less nutritious.
Besides, it was earlier this year that World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said that, the way things were going, fights over food and water would happen within 5 to 10 years, and that the only way to prevent them was to put a leash on climate change and global warming.
Still, specialists say that Paul Ehrlich's gloomy predictions can and should be taken with a pinch of salt, maybe even a spoonful or a bucket. Especially given the fact that this academic has many times made such scary predictions over the years, and none of them has until now come true.