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© 2017 selection and editorial matter, J. D’Silva and J. Webster; individual chapters, the contributors. Meat and dairy products (MDPs) have long been regarded as good for health (Fiddes, 1991) but this assumption is increasingly being called into question. It has come to be recognized that vegetarians are generally as healthy as non-vegetarians and sometimes healthier. This has led some to question whether MDPs are necessary for a healthy diet and even whether diets would be healthier if people ate less MDPs than they currently do. The debate about MDPs and health is particularly intense in industrialized countries, where people have diets that are relatively high in MDPs and where it has come to be realized that the production of MDPs - at least as generally practised - has detrimental effects on the environment (see chapters by Bernués, D’Silva, Hoekstra and Young in this book).

Original publication

DOI

10.4324/9781315562032

Type

Chapter

Book title

The Meat Crisis: Developing More Sustainable and Ethical Production and Consumption, Second Edition

Publication Date

01/01/2017

Pages

240 - 256