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Perhaps it can be said that no issue is more controversial than vegetarianism. It is like a Rubik's Cube that rotates around and can be pieced together into various arbitrary combinations of planes that are difficult to unify. Religious experts say it is a religious issue - because vegetarianism originates from religious beliefs, and Buddhist scriptures, the Bible, and the Koran all have passages advising people to fast. Ecologists say it is an ecological problem - because vegetarianism can alleviate the earth's carrying and regenerative capacity, it is especially needed to be promoted in today's era of population explosion. As far as water resources are concerned, which will become the biggest panic for mankind, groundwater sources in areas with developed intensive livestock industries in the United States, Australia and other countries have been drying up due to excessive industrial use. The American "Newsweek" has a vivid description of the water consumption of the cattle industry: "The water used in one thousand pounds of beef cattle is enough to float a destroyer.
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