La guerra por la proteína animal : La carne es salud. ¿Por qué quieren quitárnosla?

We are at war. A declared war against animal protein, fueled by activism, ideologies, and powers that are not always as innocent as they pretend to be. But also, and above all, a war for its global supply. The major powers will compete to secure their share: none can afford to run out. Meanwhile, global demand for meat, fish, eggs, and milk is reaching record highs, and Europe, paradoxically, is dismantling its livestock and limiting its fishing production. The result? Food prices are rising, and animal protein threatens to become a luxury reserved for the wealthy. Urban society ignores the countryside and its people. It only knows animals through its pets, which it treats as family members. And from this disconnect, it despises and attacks farmers and fishermen, accusing them of being abusers, polluters, and enemies of the planet. It wants them to disappear, while simultaneously protesting the high prices of animal protein in the supermarket. How did we arrive at this suicidal contradiction? Why do we persecute farms —now all intentionally labeled "mega-farms"— while idealizing a bucolic past that never existed? Why do we blame cows for climate change when, in truth, they have virtually no impact? Why do they want us to eat synthetic meat, grown in laboratories with hormones and chemicals, while persecuting natural meat? This essay, written by a veterinarian and an agricultural engineer, dismantles the fallacies that attack animal protein. It demonstrates that eating meat is necessary for our health, that livestock does not deplete water resources, that its climate impact is exaggerated, that the animals are not mistreated, and that farmers are essential allies in the fight against forest fires and in maintaining biodiversity: Farmers and fishermen, despised and persecuted, are not the problem. They are the solution. This book is their defense and our survival guide.