If we don't make any changes to our diet by then, the increase
in meat production is forecast to reach 200 million tonnes **.
By feeding wholesome, nutritious foods that are not usually consumed by humans, you help create a more sustainable planet and diminish the impact
of meat production on our ecosystem.
Meat is a major contributor to that: 80 per cent of agricultural emissions come
from meat production, and the problem is getting worse.
Yet for at least a decade, the green community has become more and more aware of the environmental devastation wrought
by meat production.
With our population growing and our diets moving to more energy - and grain -
intensive meat production, supply was already tight.
Reducing the use of animal products can have a considerable impact on areas suffering scarce water resources,
as meat production requires more water than other agricultural products.
Many people are unaware that
meat production creates harmful greenhouse gases and requires increasingly unsustainable levels of precious resources including land, water and energy.
Many people express objections against child labor, exploitation of the workforce or
meat production involving cruelty against animals.
In environmental terms,
meat production requires many more acres of cleared land and is more energy and water intensive to produce than the foods that constitute the average vegetarian diet.
Does not clearly call on people to eat less meat, both to protect their health and to reduce the harm that
meat production does to the environment.
The other ethical impact involving this question of
meat production changes would be the impact on species of animals.
Larger domestic animal size entails a number of economic advantages with an increase
in meat production or traction strength.
The vast amount of grain required to feed the animals
for meat production is a significant contributor to deforestation and species extinction.
For the Dutch researcher, the main reason for exploring this method
of meat production is to provide an answer to the mounting food crisis.
Feeding that many people with
traditional meat production will require double the amount of deforestation, which will increase greenhouse - gas emissions by 77 percent.
US commercial
red meat production in August 2011 totalled 4.30 billion lb, up 4 % from 4.13 billion lb produced in August 2010, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in...
The meat sector is the largest employer within US agriculture, and mainstream meatless consumption could create chaos and eliminate jobs across the entire
meat production value chain.
Lucia von Reusner, campaign director the campaign group, Mighty Earth, which recently exposed a link between the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico and large
scale meat production, said: «These dead zones will continue to expand unless the major meat companies that dominate our global agricultural system start cleaning up their supply chains to keep pollution out of our waters.»
US - based start - up Memphis Meats has raised $ 17m in funding to expand its
clean meat production capabilities.
«The Sustainable Consumption Institute encourages staff and students to think about the sustainability of the food they eat, and to play their part in reducing carbon emission associated
with meat production,» says Lynda McIntosh, the SCI's communications and marketing manager.
Combine latent demand for slaughter -
free meat production with the environmental and economic necessity of an eco-friendly, efficient alternative to factory farming, and it's easy to see why the conventional meat industry would want to get involved in the clean meat future.
People all around the world should ask their governments, public institutions and companies to divest stocks and bonds supporting
unsustainable meat production.
Now, Chipotle is producing a four - episode satirical series called Farmed and Dangerous, about a creepy pistol - wielding, food industry executive whose new method of
meat production also causes cows to explode.
Just months after some of the world's largest processors have stepped up efforts to
shun meat production in favor of investing in and producing allergen - friendly plant - based protein products, Axiom Foods, will launch their pea protein meat analogue at IFT.
A 2006 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) found that
meat production generates more greenhouse gas emissions (14 - 22 percent of global emissions) than either transportation or industry.
Memphis Meats, the brainchild that had the startup - investor class salivating, was aiming to remove animals from the process of
meat production altogether.
GRINDSTED ® Meatline and GRINDSTED ® Meatbinder can help reduce processed
meat production material costs by improving yield and minimizing cooking loss.
Additionally, the rise of funds with a strong emphasis on
alternative meat production and innovation, such as Tyson New Ventures, indicates that meat producers foresee the possibility of a meatless future.
Just a few months before Madison's near - century of
meat production at Oscar Mayer will end, many questions remain unanswered: Questions about the hundreds of remaining workers whose jobs will disappear; questions about the fate of the 72 - acre site and the 1.7 million square feet of offices and factory it houses — the place where hot dogs and processed meats began production in 1919 and where, at its peak, more than 4,000 people once worked.
Total meat production is forecast to fall slightly in 2000/01 as cattle herd rebuilding continues, though live cattle exports are expected to increase, reflecting a further improvement in Asian demand.
According to some sources, such as Myers, even
though meat production in Costa Rica tripled during the period 1960 - 70 internal consumption fell to a point where each person ate «less meat than a domestic cat receives annually in the United States» (Myers 1981, 6).
I don't buy Tyson meats because they are guilty of
unethical meat production, and don't shop at Walmart because they are guilty of gender discrimination and treating their employees poorly.
It puzzles me that if people and groups very clearly see the problem with the
industrializing meat production, why don't they have a problem with industrializing food production?
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation,
meat production alone now generates more greenhouse gas emissions than all the world's transport combined.
Eagle also presented a light - emitting diode (LED) Marquee Display Unit (MDU) that can be installed on
meat production lines upstream from the EAGLE ™ FA720 Series to transmit real - time CL data to operatives working at the trimming or packing stations.
As the authors - including kangaroo ecologists Dr Dror Ben Ami, Dr David Croft and Dr Daniel Ramp - show, the number of kangaroos necessary to
supplant meat production from sheep (more if cattle and goats are included) is simply ecologically unfeasible.
As a result of the small population and the large ratio of livestock to people, Australian red
meat production far exceeds domestic consumption, making Australia one of the largest exporters of red meat in the world.