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Food for a FutureTop of Form

Jon Wynne-Tyson was an original thinker whose best-known book ‚Food for a Future‘ was published in 1975, In this classic work, a case was forward for  can only be described as a more responsible and humane attitude towards the world’s food resources. It had gradually  clear to Wynne-Tyson that the economics and ecology of meat production did not sense. What justification was  , he argued, for using seven tonnes of cereal to produce one tonne of meat? Even today, the book's succinct style makes it compulsively readable. his approach is basically an emotional one, Wynne-Tyson goes to great lengths to back  every statement with considerable supporting evidence and statistical data. Thus, even of us who are widely read the subject of vegetarianism will gain fresh insights from this book. It is generally agreed that his most skilful achievement is the slow revelation of his main thesis the arguments unfold. The book concludes that a move away from an animal-based diet to  which is based on plant sources is inevitable in the long-term, in  of the fact that there is no sound nutritional, medical or social justification for meat eating. of whether you agree with  a conclusion or not, the book certainly makes fascinating read.

 

The Desire to Know

Curiosity goes back to the dawn of human existence (EXIST). This irrepressible desire to know is not a  (CHARACTER) of inanimate objects. Nor does it seem to be attributable to some forms of living organism which, for that very reason, we can scarcely bring ourselves to consider alive. A tree, for example, does not display  (RECOGNISE) curiosity, nor does a sponge or even an oyster. If chance events bring them poison, predators or parasites, they die as  (CEREMONIOUS) as they lived.

Early in the scheme of life,  (DEPEND) motion was developed by some organisms. It meant an (ORDINARY) advance in their control of the environment. A moving organism no longer waited in stolid  (RIGID) for food to come its way, but went out after it. The individual that hesitated in the (ZEAL) search for food, or that was overly  (CONSERVE) in its investigation, starved.

As organisms grew more complex, more messages of greater variety were received from and about the  (ROUND) environment. At the same time, the nervous system, the living instrument that interprets and stores the data collected by the sense organs, became  (INCREASE) complexBottom of FormBottom of Form