Global Climate Change and many more vegetarians by necessity

The price of meat will continue to go up exponentially worldwide. Eventually, the only people who eat meat will raise it themselves or go hunting for it worldwide.

Global Climate change is the cause of this as the fish in the oceans and rivers get fished out from overpopulation and weather causes ranchers to sell all or most of their livestock because of weather being either too much snow(livestock can't get to food and water is frozen), too much rain(livestock all drown), too little rain(livestock die without water). This is happening worldwide which is driving up the cost of meat exponentially every year now.

Since this is only going to get worse by the day and year worldwide now, I thought I would write about how to be the various kinds of vegetarian in a healthy way since I was a lacto ovo vegetarian from birth (not just so we didn't kill animals) but my father became a vegetarian for healthy reasons in 1934 when he was valedictorian of his high school class for health reasons after reading about the shots they gave cattle then that were making people sick when they ate the meat.

I was raised a Lacto ovo vegetarian which means you eat eggs and milk in addition to vegetable matter but you don't eat anything that swims, walks or flies. You don't eat fish or fowl either.

Some people believe you need to eat meat to live. However, if you are a low burner with an indigenous background genetically(someone who lived close to the earth up to recently (like within the last 100 to 200 years, likely you would be better off being more of a vegetarian anyway because eating too much meat and sugar might cause you to get diabetes young or old. People who are low burners among indigenous peoples are the ones who survive large droughts and starvation the best. The people who might have the most need for meat are the ones who stay skinny no matter how much they eat(high burners).

However, even they on the right vegetarian diet will be okay. My father was a high burner and I and my mother whose parents were both from Scotland were low burners. So, being a vegetarian is an advantage in preventing diabetes for my mother and I so we never got that.

I was a lacto ovo vegetarian from birth until I was about 32 or 33 when I started studying with Tibetan Lamas in the U.S., India and Nepal. They told me I needed to eat some meat. However, I wouldn't have listened to them except that around 1980 and1981 the unemployment in the U.S. was 10% and I was worrying at the time of government collapse and bankruptcy because of the waste of the Viet Nam War and the ARab Oil Embargo causing gas and diesel to cost about 4 times as much as before 1973 generally speaking. So, my thought about meat and fish then was that I might need to hunt to survive so I should adapt myself to possibly eating a little meat and fish so I didn't die and not be able to take care of my wife and kids and eventually my parents.

However, still I am about 90% to 95% vegetarian even now which is why I or my mother never got diabetes in our lives. Too much meat and sugar and soft drinks and high fructose corn syrup is probably the main cause of diabetes in low burner people around the world.

So, being a vegetarian if you know what you are doing and can afford it will be the most likely diet to take you to 100 or more years of age around the world with all your marbles intact. Not knowing what you are doing being a vegetarian and not being healthy about your choices could shorten your life even more than eating too much meat can.

For example, when I grew up in the 1950s men often died from being meat and potatoes men. They would work hard all day and then have a steak with gravy and mashed potatoes every day for dinner then go to sleep immediately and often they would die in their mid 30s to early 40s from this heavy diet killing them usually with a heart attack in the night. This combined with a carton of cigarettes a week or even two cartons (not packages, cartons of many packages) as well as drinking hard liquor every night or many beers tended to kill hard working men by 35 to 45  years of age unless they had special genetics that saved them but these were the exceptions and not the rule. So keep this in mind when thinking about how the world's Global climate change is forcing more people to be vegetarian or to eat more vegetarian things and less meat and fish.

If you are going to eat a lot of baked potatoes (which is one of the few things you can actually live on without eating anything else but water) be sure they are organically grown because potatoes, carrots and apples and a few other vegetables take in the pesticides through their skins into the meat of the vegetable. So, if you eat a pesticide covered potato as well as the skin you are always eating pesticides too. So, as you eat a pesticide covered baked potato to a greater or lesser degree you are also making yourself sick in some ways(the same with carrots and apples and other things).

So, choosing to be healthy one must find organically grown potatoes to be healthy and one must always eat the skins too (if that is all you are going to eat) because you cannot afford anything else if you want to survive the baked potato only diet.

note: A friend of mine who climbed many high mountains with me from 11,000 feet to over 14,000 feet in our 20s has been a vegetarian since he was born and is now (born in 1951) 62 and likely 63 this year some time. He found that this last year he had to start taking B-12 sublinguals but this is the only medicine (a vitamin) he takes even at 63 and has been a vegetarian since birth.