The previous generation tackled smoking. Now is the time to tackle our food issues.

Dr. Neal Barnard

Dr. Neal Barnard är en amerikansk professor i medicin (se hela hans titel nedan) och en av de mest framträdande förespråkarna av en kost baserad på mat från växtriket.

Nyligen intervjuades han i tidningen Forbes.

På frågan om han tycker att det är realistiskt att förvänta sig att människor ska göra så omfattande förändringar i sin kost som detta innebär svarar han såhär:

“We have no choice. The previous generation tackled smoking. Now is the time to tackle our food issues. In my opinion, our collective eating habits are terrible for health and for the environment – and the animals are not so keen on any of it either.”

Intressant infallsvinkel! Jodå, en gång i tiden ansågs det ju faktiskt både nyttigt och trendigt att röka… Och se hur vi ser på rökning idag!

Han fortsätter:

"There is no longer any question that people who avoid animal products are, as a group, thinner, healthier, and longer-living, compared with their meat-eating friends. What is up for grabs is how far we should go in a plant-based direction, and my response is, how healthy do you want your kids to be?"

Och hur ska budskapet nå fram på bred front?

"Remember when President Kennedy set a goal of putting a man on the moon? He did not send out grants willy-nilly to anyone who had an idea about how to get there. He set in motion a coordinated effort that put Neil Armstrong's boots on the lunar surface within the decade. We need to tackle health problems in the same way. That means directly addressing their causes, the vast majority of which are in front of us when we sit down to eat." 

Tänkvärt.

Läs hela artikeln här: "Occupy Your Diet: A Discussion About Food, Health and Kindness With Dr. Neal Barnard"  

Neal D. Barnard, MD, is the president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC.