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Eating Meat if You Want to Live: Schwarzenegger Pushes Vegetarian Diet to Stop
Climate Change
Former bodybuilder, action
star, and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is now advocating a
part-time vegetarian diet to
protect the planet from climate change.
Speaking at the United
Nations Paris Climate Change Conference this week, theTerminator star was
asked by the BBC whether
he would recommend reducing meat consumption to save the environment
from greenhouse gases.
The former Mr. Olympia, who
is now a staunch environmentalist, told the outlet 28
percent of greenhouse gasses are caused by meat production and meat-eating and
said people should be
willing to cut back.
Schwarzenegger said asking
people to completely eliminate meat and dairy from their diet would be too
drastic, and instead advocated one or two vegetarian or vegan days a week.
“You have to start slowly,
you can’t just convince people to stop eating meat altogether. It’s a very big
challenge, it doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done and you shouldn’t be on that
campaign, but it’s a very hard thing to overcome,” Schwarzenegger said.
As for how prospective
bodybuilders are supposed to build muscle without meat, the actor said, “I have seen many bodybuilders and weight lifters that are
vegetarians.”
“You can get your protein
source many different ways,” he added.
Addressing a message to
climate change deniers, Schwarzenegger told The Guardian, “It drives me crazy when
people talk about 30 years from now, rising sea levels and so on. What about
right now? Thousands of people are dying from pollution. People are living with
cancer [because of air pollution].”
He also told the paper,
“Global warming is an extremely important issue, the most important issue. You
have to communicate it properly. You have to communicate to people that this is
right now.”
On his Facebook page Monday,
Schwarzenegger penned a lengthy note for fans who disagree with his stance on
climate change, which he referred to as a “crusade for a clean energy future.”
“To use one of the
four-letter words all of you commenters love, I don’t give a damn if you
believe in climate change,” Schwarzenegger wrote. “I couldn’t care less if
you’re concerned about temperatures rising or melting glaciers. It doesn’t
matter to me which of us is right about the science.”
The Daily Mail reports that Hollywood
stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Redford were also present for the Paris
climate summit.
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