Editing Vegetarianism (section)

=== Economic vegetarianism ===
Similar to environmental vegetarianism is the concept of [[economic vegetarianism]]. An economic vegetarian is someone who practices vegetarianism from either the philosophical viewpoint concerning issues such as public health and curbing world starvation, the belief that the consumption of meat is economically unsound, part of a conscious [[simple living]] strategy or just out of necessity. According to the [[Worldwatch Institute]], "Massive reductions in meat consumption in industrial nations will ease their health care burden while improving public health; declining livestock herds will take pressure off rangelands and grainlands, allowing the agricultural resource base to rejuvenate. As populations grow, lowering meat consumption worldwide will allow more efficient use of declining per capita land and water resources, while at the same time making grain more affordable to the world's chronically hungry."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldwatch.org/press/news/1998/07/02 |title=United States Leads World Meat Stampede|publisher=WorldWatch Institute |access-date=February 6, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517050751/http://www.worldwatch.org/press/news/1998/07/02/ |archive-date=May 17, 2008}}</ref> According to estimates in 2016, adoption of vegetarianism would contribute substantially to global healthcare and environmental savings.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Springmann |first1=Marco |last2=Godfray |first2=H.C.J. |last3=Raynar |first3=Mike |last4=Scarborough |first4=Peter |date=February 9, 2016 |title=Analysis and valuation of the health and climate change cobenefits of dietary change |url=https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2016/03/16/1523119113.full.pdf |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=113 |issue=15 |pages=4146–4151 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1523119113 |pmid=27001851 |pmc=4839446 |access-date=May 28, 2019 |bibcode=2016PNAS..113.4146S |doi-access=free |archive-date=July 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708194554/https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2016/03/16/1523119113.full.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>