Recent research reveals that changing to a vegetarian diet could save millions of lives, while also combatting climate change! According to a study made by Mark Springman and a team of scientists at Oxford University, if human beings continue to eat a lot of meat and fish, we are certain to suffer the harmful
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Harmful:
"Perjudicial o dañino". En inglés, el sufijo -ful, cuando se aplica a un adjetivo, implica que el sustantivo al que modifica posee dichas cualidades en exceso o que está caraterizado por ellas: careful (‘cauto’ o ‘prudente’), beautiful (‘bello’) o painful (‘doloroso’). Por el contrario, el sufijo -less se aplica para indicar que carece de dicha cualidad: harmless (‘inocuo’ o ‘inofensivo’), careless (‘negligente’, ‘descuidado’) o painless (‘indoloro’). En el caso de beautiful, sin embargo, no diremos beautiless, sino ugly.
effects of global warming
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global warming:
calentamiento global
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original RESEARCH
Today’s food industry is responsible for around 25 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions
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greenhouse gas emissions:
gas de efecto invernadero
. 80 per cent of these come from livestock
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livestock:
ganado
production and diseases
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diseases:
enfermedades
associated with eating red meat. But what would happen if humanity chose a healthier diet, replacing red meat with vegetables? And what if we became completely vegetarian —or even vegan? This study considers these options and suggests three surprising outcomes
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outcomes:
resultados
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MILLIONS SAVED!
By increasing the minimum amount of vegetables in all our diets by 25 per cent, mortality rates
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rates:
índices
would fall by six to ten per cent by the year 2050. If humanity decided to go vegan, up to
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up to:
hasta
eight million lives could be saved every year!
A vegetarian diet would also reduce the number of people who suffer from malnutrition, says Springman, as vegetables can be grown in bigger quantities and so can provide a more abundant and nutritious food source
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source:
fuente
for the world’s population than meat.
and THE planet?
The planet could also benefit from everyone eating a vegetarian diet! We could even avoid the environmental catastrophe that many scientists say is inevitable. According to this research, veganism could decrease greenhouse gas emissions by 29 to 70 per cent, enough to prevent the predicted floods
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floods:
inundaciones
, damage to crops
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crops:
cultivos
, loss of biodiversity, etc.
THE healthy CHOICE
The study concludes that “food choice affects our health and has important implications for the environment.” Making the right choice is simple: “The fewer products derived from animals, the greater benefit to health and to the climate.”
best diet for humans
Does this mean that veganism is the best diet? It certainly seems that it is the diet best suited
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suited:
adecuada
to the health of humanity! So much so that the American magazine Time called veganism “the diet that could save the planet.”
better than tech
Springman’s study also concludes that changing our diet is more effective than expensive technological solutions to climate change.
Unfortunately
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unfortunately:
desafortunadamente
, data
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Data:
"Datos". En latín, data es el plural de datum. Sin embargo, en inglés se conjuga con verbos en singular: Big data is the future.
is almost never enough to convince politicians, which is why scientists have converted their conclusions into cash
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cash:
dinero (en efectivo)
, arguing that a vegan diet could save humanity a trillion
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Trillion:
"Un billón". Al tratar con grandes cifras, y a partir de los mil millones, es fácil caer en la trampa de los falsos amigos. En inglés, a billion son ‘mil millones’ (o un ‘millardo’), mientras que el ‘billón’ español es el trillion inglés. ¿Y cómo se expresa un ‘trilló’n en inglés? A quintillion. Se trata de diferencias importantes, sobre todo cuando hablamos de dinero...
dollars a year! If happiness had a price, that would be it.
