Join the Protein Revolution

This is a MUST read article for everyone.

For her last birthday, my daughter got the amazing gift of a National Geographic subscription. Every month she (well, I) looks forward to checking it out.

You can only imagine my excitement when this is what I saw on the cover of the May 2014 issue.

Pick it up and check it out for yourself, it is quite an amazing article written by Jonathan Foley

Here are some of the highlights:

• Demand for meat has tripled in the developing world in four decades
• Egg consumption has increased sevenfold in four decades
• The demand for more crops to feed livestock is one reason experts say we’ll need to double crop production by 2050
• Our need for food poses one of the biggest dangers to the planet
• Agriculture is among the greatest contributors to global warming, emitting more greenhouse gases than all our cars, trucks, trains and airplanes combined

The list goes on and on.

One simple solution from my opinion. Entomophagy. Eat insects, bugs, critters… whatever you want to call them. Just start eating them- baked, fried, as flour- the form doesn’t matter. What matters is that you Join the Protein Revolution with @protein2050

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