Grayson recommends increasing intake of nuts, beans, and dairy products to provide enough protein. Grayson, who also heads Grayson Nutritional Services in Boulder, is a vegetarian, and feeds her young children a vegetarian diet as well. She adds that most Americans get much more protein than they need, an average of 70-100g a day, but there is no evidence of it being a major health risk. People also choose vegetarianism not for the environmental aspects but for animal rights, but vegetarian groups have provoked some backlash. An alternative to PETA, called People Eating Tasty Animals, has attracted a following.
Many people say they still eat animals simply because they taste good.
It makes my meal feel complete. Often livestock feed is grain that the FDA would not deem fit for human consumption, as well as agricultural waste. However, many people are alarmed that meat consumption has been linked by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to soil erosion, water pollution, global warming, fossil fuel depletion, rain forest destruction, and wasted agricultural resources. Within the U.S., agricultural industry is exempt from the Clean Water Act of 1972. In 1996, factory farms produced 1.4 billion tons of animal waste.