Obviously, the decision of China’s health ministry to release new dietary guidelines aiming at cutting off meat consumption by 50% in the next 14 years is not only a step towards the right direction but a milestone in China’s health policy. The decision is strongly supported by the former Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Avatar producer, James Cameron. The decision is China’s response to the dramatic surge of diet-released diseases due to the explosion of fast food restaurants such as KFC and McDonald’s which have sprung up like mushrooms in the last 30 years in China. If those guidelines are implemented properly, they are going to reduce meat consumption up to only 14 kg per year per capita. This would be the fastest decrease in meat consumption in world history.
“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.
The Chinese communist party has found unusual allies. Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Avatar producer James Cameron have produced a series of provocative videos aimed at supporting the cause.
In the last 30 years, Chinese meat consumption has quadrupled.
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 reducedby a billion tons per year.
A global switch to diets that rely less on meat and more on fruit and vegetables would have staggering benefits, researchers from the Oxford Martin School reported in March 2016. Such a shift could save up to 8 million lives by 2050 and reduce food-related greenhouse gas emissions by two-thirds, and lead to healthcare-related savings and avoided climate damages amounting to $1.5 trillion.
China’s new guidelines are a huge step in that direction.
Currently, the average Chinese person eats 63 kg of meat per year. The new guidelines call for reducing this to 14 kg to 27 kg per year — which would be the most rapid drop in meat consumption by a population even remotely near this large in world history.
For the last 30 years, China has been following the American example — with an explosion of restaurants like KFC and McDonald’s — and with a corresponding explosion in rates of a long list of diet-related diseases. But now, the nation is seeing where this path leads — and is beginning to change its course. Perhaps now, the United States will follow China’s lead.
The future of the planet may depend on it.”
Source: foodrevolution.org!
Does it include dogs?
Can’t tell you. However, I could imagine that both of them are going to their best to make sure that this is also applicable to dogs if the new dietary guidelines don’t consider this, too!
No i mean they eat dogs