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.
Not exact matches
Clean
meat will not
require the land, water or crops of traditional
meat production.
Memphis
Meats acknowledges it used FBS to start its cell lines but says, «We have validated a
production method that does not
require the use of any serum, and we are developing additional methods as we speak.»
Producing «clean»
meat by culturing cells — instead of raising or slaughtering animals - is a new frontier in food
production, but will it
require a new regulatory framework, and what should we call it?
Producing «clean»
meat by culturing cells — instead of raising or slaughtering animals - is a new frontier in food
production that will
require consumer education and transparent labeling.
The vast amount of grain
required to feed the animals for
meat production is a significant contributor to deforestation and species extinction.
Many people are unaware that
meat production creates harmful greenhouse gases and
requires increasingly unsustainable levels of precious resources including land, water and energy.
According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), the
production, processing and distribution of
meat requires huge outlays of pesticides, fertilizer, fuel, feed and water while releasing greenhouse gases, manure and a range of toxic chemicals into our air and water.
In contrast to previous studies, lab - grown
meat was found to be no more sustainable than chicken or eggs,
requiring an equivalent area of land but using more energy in
production.
Organic food
production requires more land, but a study claims cutting
meat eating and food waste will solve this problem.
In fact, the
production of one pound of beef
meat requires over 1.000 pounds of feed.
The
production of red
meat, for example,
requires large amounts of water and livestock feed, and produces liberal amounts of methane.
Red
meat also contains great amounts of vitamin B 12, a famous enemy of both adrenal and ordinary fatigue, and zinc, which
required for testosterone
production and can act as an aromatase inhibitor and reduce estrogen levels.
To live within Earth's natural boundaries
requires rethinking
meat and fish
production practices to respect ecology.
study would
require 728,000 famers — before we've even thought about cereal, bread, dairy and
meat production, whereas there are just half a million farm workers in the UK.
While less
meat gets wasted than does fruit and vegetables, the amount of energy
required to produce
meat is «significantly» more than that for plant - based food
production, which means that the associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from
meat production is also much higher, leading researchers to indicate that
meat waste has a «greater negative environmental impact.»
Simply feeding all those people will
require doubling agricultural
production if their diets are improved with a bit more
meat as the fish in the oceans will be long gone and that's all supposed to happen without tractors powered by fossil fuels and nitrogen fertilizers from NatGas.
As a
meat production worker, you will be
required to possess knowledge of sanitation procedures as they relate to raw food items.