Countries spend a portion of their GDP on health care, the United States for instance spends almost double the average of any other economic developing country but yet its citizens live shorter than most other developed nations. Therefore, implementing plant based diets in schools at an early age as well as in their later years of education would be promising, they may more than likely will develop and maintain more positive dietary habits. The World Health Organization documented that healthy habits will encourage, motivate and enable individuals in losing weight while eating more fruit and vegetables, as well as nuts and whole grains. (49)
According to World Health Organization estimates are of 30 percent of all deaths globally are attributed to cardiovascular disease, that is 17.5 million people having died of CVD.(50)
With meat less based diets, millions or possibly even billions of dollars may be saved of the 1 trillion USD spent worldwide on heart disease, Colon Cancer 6.5 billion and 93 billion(51)

Consistently, in the UK both adults and children are increasingly becoming overweight or obese, children as young as 11 years old are also suffering from this epidemic.
It is clear to see individuals on a plant based diet poses less of a risk of cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, obesity, cancer to name a few. Furthermore, individuals that do suffer from such diseases when placed on a meat free based diet they chronic illnesses begin to reverse improving their quality of life.(52) According to the report Overall, 2.7 million deaths are attributable to low fruit and vegetable intake and there is a great need in cutting down on fatty, sugary foods; and dumping saturated animal fats in favor of unsaturated vegetable oils. (53)

By adopting a meatless diet the poor welfare, cruel and inhumane conditions animals of intensive factory farming (IFF)can be a concept of the past minimizing all together or possibly eradicating many illnesses and future pandemics that stem directly from raising, processing and consuming animal flesh. World communities are currently facing diseases from direct or indirect usage of animals today, to name a few: Swine flu, Blue Tongue Disease, E Coli, Salmonella , Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease, Pig’s Disease (PMWS), Listeriosis (most deadly, and on the rise), Shellfsh Poisoning, Pre-eclampsia (complications in pregnancy), and other viruses of zoonotic origin (54)

As mention in here previously, pollutants from CAFOs and IFFs end up not only in our oceans but in our drinking water but in the air and land people live adding to the Socio Economic implications meat has in our society. With the absence of CAFOs and IFFs local rural communities will again bloom. First, the immediate health hazards to rural communities can be avoided due CAFOs and IFFs less than strict environmental regulations. The loss of property devaluation, As documented in a report by researchers Miguel Gomez and Liying Zhang of Illinois State University-Normal, models demonstrated how these facilities actually hindered economic growth in local communities.

In the business sector healthier employees relates to better performance and less days taken off from work. In addition, when a worker is healthier their immediate families also healthier maintaining a ‘family values’ concept; this minimizes even further family pressures in turn a better performing worker. A company that focuses on providing wellness solutions for corporations, Employee Wellness USA, they emphasize on employee incentives making it rewarding and fun. Providing at least one meal a week at the work place can be an attractive. (55)

Gradually reduction and elimination of FACOs and IFFs will relieve and achieve a significant amount of repeated animal cruelty incidents, high rates of premature death, accidents at work, stress, domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse and individuals suffering from psychological injuries (active participation of a the violent situation), officially named Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) resulting from the large scale violence and death encountered daily by workers of this industry.(56)

Furthermore, in her book book SLAUGHTERHOUSE, Author Gail Eisnitz, documented the links of violent work at the slaughterhouse to increased crime rates in the surrounding communities. (57)
As mentioned in an article of the New York Times, this unsafe and violent work atmosphere violates the basic human and labor rights. (58)
Therefore, the world’s absent demand for animal flesh would have the prospects of seeing this industry’s work force as productive citizens of these local communities with possible alternatives in learning some form of sustainable trade contributing to society rather then, being labeled a statistic of a violence.

In keeping with the planets’ limited natural resources as a result from contamination, pollution, climate change and scarcity proper usage and management is of great necessity. By actively participating in this reports suggested sustainable diet, society in turn can address many of the issues faced by both developing and under developed nations.

Considering clean drinking water shortages and a great majority of water used to feed and animal for human consumption, Half the water consumed in the U.S. is used to grow grain for cattle feed. Approximately less than 20,000 liters of water are used to make 1 pound of beef equivalent to leaving the water in your shower running for 7 minutes daily for an entire year.(59) An organic crop farming system would entirely avoid the contamination of nitrogen, phosphorus, pesticides and antibiotics in fresh water. We can easily support and contribute to the 1.1 BILLION PEOPLE on the planet that do not have access to safe clean drinking water, by simply adopting a meatless diet. Similarly, the demand of meat supports world hunger, having more than one third of the world’s grain harvest used to feed animals for human consumption. (60)

Clearly with in such modern times and many of the world’s population living in unsanitary condition we can divert resources from animal raising to those that need it the most, individuals should have basic rights to healthy food and clean drinking water.

Embracing this nonviolent, environmentally friendly and sustainable method of supplying food to our society as well as cooperative assistance among nations, we can possibly resolve and limit many potential current and future global conflicts. As documented in various papers and reports such as Water and Violent Conflict, (61) Dehydrating Conflict(62), World at War Over Water(63) Pentagon Preps for Conflicts Sparked by Climate Change. (64)

Never the less an immediate and a cost effective solution is needed to mitigate rising temperatures through environmentally sustainable techniques diverting further environmental catastrophes and estimated trillions of dollars in costs tacking climate change. It cannot be stressed enough as it is documented in a Netherlands assessment report, in which it shows just on how the global community by adopting a plant based would save 80% of the cost of mitigating climate change. (65)
Equivalently, UN’s top climate scientist, Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated that lessening our meat consumption to 1 day a week initially and decreasing it from there as a way of combating global warming and providing in a sustainable method, nourishment.(66)

In conclusion, the approach suggested here is simple enough that all nations are able to eventually partake in. By implementing this change in our eating habit we can eventually provide (every living being) all 7 billion plus inhabitants of this planet with some basic rights. Society has the right to make conscientious and healthier choices, the right to their fare share in having sufficient food, clean drinking water, and to live without fear of diseases and other arising threats related to climate change.

Again, a plant based diet is effective in mitigating the current crisis we face, as science has determined that immediate steps are required to avoid any further global temperatures from rising, affecting all life on this planet.

(49) http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2010/04/23/25-eye-popping-infographics-on-global-healthcare-costs-and-quality/
(50) http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs317/en/print.html
(51) http://meatthefacts.org/wp/category/diseases
(52) http://www.vegetarian.org.uk/guides/vplan01.html
(53) http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/en/
(54) http://wellnessblog.employeewellnessusa.com/
(55) http://www.vegetarianfriends.net/issue45.html
(56) http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages&webtag=ab-environment&tid=1673
(57) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/25/national/25cnd-meat.html?_r=1
(58) http://meatthefacts.org/wp/category/water/
(59) Lester Brown, Michael Renner, Brian Halweil Vital Signs 2000, (World Watch Institute) p. 34; Frances Lappe Moore, Joseph Collins, Peter Rosset, World Hunger: 12 Myths, (Food First and Grove Press, Second Edition, 1998) pp.8, 180; Richard Robbins Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (Allyn and Bacon, 1999), p. 220
(60) http://www.globalpolicy.org/the-dark-side-of-natural-resources/water-in-conflict.html
(61) http://www.globalpolicy.org/the-dark-side-of-natural-resources/water-in-conflict.html
(62) http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/198/40343.html
(63) http://www.globalpolicy.org/security-council/dark-side-of-natural-resources/water-in-conflict/48900.html
(64) http://www.globalpolicy.org/security-council/dark-side-of-natural-resources/water-in-conflict/48559.html
(65) http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16573-eating-less-meat-could-cut-climate-costs.html
(66) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2699173/Eat-less-red-meat-to-help-the-environment-UN-climate-expert-says.html