jordan and pablo
how true is the following statement?
"Half of the food we produce is fed to our livestock. If we stopped eating meat and instead used our entire food production on human consumption we could feed the entire world."
First consider we are currently at 7bil. The world is only so big and the numbers grow all the time.
Another thing to note is i've already spent a long time just finding the facts (google is your friend if you really want to learn something) So this doesn't include hay which is most commonly fed to cattle and takes up a TON of room for all it's eaten, the grains are usualy only fed for the last few months of their life to make them fatten up.
ok so
A vast amount of land goes towards those animals and the sheer amount of food required to raise one cow needs to be accounted for one LB of beef requires
12-16 pounds of grain (varying sources although from farm life i've know 16 is on the fair side)
55 sq feet of rainforest <........don't ask.
2500 gallons of water
Also a study done by the American Journal of Agricultural Economics stated that areas with high amounts of livestock farming results in higher infant mortality rates due to by products of the animal farming (such as gasses and ground water contamination)
meat is also bad for the environment. A diet with meat is equal to 4,758 kilometres (almost 3000 miles) driven in a mid size car enough to cross the us sea to sea (depending on where you cross may be a bit over or under)
A vegetarian diet is half that. and a vegan organic diet is only 281 kil.
Also producing 2.2 pounds of beef is equal to 71 kil, the worst where as the same amount of pork is just 26 kil (pigs eat a lot of leftovers humans waste)
not to mention the sheer amount of meat that is accepted as a meal is ridiculous compared to the filling capability and energy provided by veggies, if people complain they don't get full without meat they don't even know what they're talking about a ounce or less is fine a meal if you must eat it, chicken and pork are better than beef anyway and just a couple times a week is plenty but people want what they want and they don't care what happens.
why are meat grouped with dry beans and nuts on the food pyramid? because they have the same energy power. and if your not a complete idiot you get more nutrition and energy from vegetarian than meat
i won't say milk is bad.
I won't say butter is bad.
Or yogghurt, or honey or eggs or fish sometimes (although that's a whole other bucket of environmental things)
the reason your stomach doesn't feel heavy and "full" when you eat a full meal of veggies is because it's not struggling. a serving of beans rice and corn gives you the same protein you get in meat, so it's just as good for muscles. in fact since i stopped my silly vegetarian experiment a few years ago i've felt horrible and i rarely eat large amounts of meat anyway. i also remember a brain splitting migraine a while after i went cold turkey (lol?) one of the only full migraines I've ever gotten (blackout bad pain with nausea and cold sweats) a while after i saw a mcdonalds commercial before that i had hardcore meat cravings after not one.
just food for thought. Yeah i'm making jokes i'm sorry... I know they're terrible.
rolleyes
Reply to other people=
potato skins? no....Corn cobs potato skins and most all human waste goes to PORK not cattle, even old cakes in fancy shops and the hundreds of pounds of food left over from vegas buffets goes to pork. and remember all that waste also has to be safely contained (as per germaphobe us standards) and shipped to the cattle location.
Also a ton of food is wasted in markets but i haven't seen any go to livestock and that's from working at walmart and super 1 two large market chains. along with local markets. and markets i've asked about. not a lot of markets actually do it and it's no wonder, the time and effort to remove the food instead of having it compacted and gotten rid of isn't worth it.
Cattle eat corn cobs sometimes but it doesn't work well. cows are almost always raised hay then corn or just corn (america likes to waste corn which is tasty... :
what's with the corn hate people? corn is delicious and carrys a lot of what you need to survive, it's not the corns fault you eat too much.