YogaEcology Team

When people talk about the rights of animals and plants to exist on this planet, diet is a topic that always comes to the forefront. One argument people have is that eating meat is exploitative and unnecessarily cruel to the animals that have to be farmed. The opposition may argue that being vegetarian or vegan …

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This doesn’t mean that we need to be all the same or that we need to be completely cookie-cutter in our approach. Instead we need “unity without uniformity and diversity without fragmentation”.

Vegetarianism: Eating for the environment

The global population is estimated to reach 10 billion people by 2050, with two-thirds of the population projected to live in cities and at least a third moving to join the global middle class. As countries become more urbanised and the average wealth of each citizen is increased, people generally consume greater quantities of more resource intensive foods such as meats and dairy. There is currently a “food gap” between the number of calories available from food and the projected calorific demand in the future, which primarily stems from continual population growth and changing diets.

“The true tragedy of our time is still unfolding – the loss of biodiversity. The living word is our unique marvel. The natural world is fading. We must change our diet. The planet can’t support billions of meat-eaters.” Sir David Attenborough The world around us is rapidly changing, and not necessarily for the better. A …

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The world has never needed us to be more united than it does right at this moment. To continue moving forward, we must move forward as a collective, free from the societal barriers we place around each other and as one with the world around us. Only then can we move forward, when we see …

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The Earth is near a tipping point in her unrelenting march onward. Recent weather events are proof of this, with seasonal changes becoming more extreme every passing year and infectious diseases cropping up more and more frequently. As Rob talks about in his article[1], our interconnectedness with the environment around us is undeniable, we are …

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