Career Group Reading Report NO.2

Reference: Kanter, J. (2010, January 24). Stop Eating Meat and Save the Planet? The New York Time.

Summary:
In the article “Stop Eating Meat and Save the Planet?”, Kanter showed an argument about livestock rise the levels of greenhouse gases and what people could do with it. In Kanter’s article, there were many famous people in the world who showed their opinions about this topic. At the beginning, there was a woman who was showing a picture to warming people do not eat meat on the climate conference in Copenhagen. She came from Ching Hai organization and she wanted people ccould think about eating meat which has raised the planet-warming gases. Paul McCartney, who was a former member of the Beatles and joined in the parliament, said European legislators need to come out a law which could encouraged people just eat meat once a week. However, Mr. Slater said meat contained a lot of nutrition which people need in their body and meat was not green food was people’s bias. At the end, Mr. Seré said if people cut off the meat supporting, it would affect poor people and poor countries. Also, in same situation livestock was pillar of the economy in a country, so it was not easy to solve this problem just without eating meat.

Critique:
This is a very interesting article. It mentioned people eating meat will affect the climate change. Generally, it is hard to think about the relationship between meat eating and climate change. Even though this was not my first time heard about it, I still think it is interesting. Nowadays, the rising demand for meat and dairy products become more and more serious. People like eat meat for many reasons. As the person said in the article, meat maintains different kinds of nutrition and it is good for our body. However, methane is the main gas exhaust from livestock. In the past few years, methane was the major gas raising the temperature and it has became more and more serious.
In Belgian, Civil servants and schoolchildren have already begun with a meat-free day a week. I think this is the first step to solve this problem which began with slowing down the meat consumption. In my opinion, people should eat food in an appropriate way because different people have different health situation with their body. Some people can not eat meat, but others need to eat meat. It is hard to control people eating meat, but I think people can decrease the quantity that they eat.