The article discusses the current environmental impact of meat productoin, inlulding the growing of animal feed and the raising of the animals themselves. The article is full of facts and figures and this for me, really makes it a high impact read. It is clear that the way we farm animals and grains for the meat trade is something that will need to change in the future in order to curb the negative environmental impacts.
A part of this article that I hadn't considered before was the patterns of meat production and consumption, particularly patterns of inequality across the world.
Over all, and interesting and thought provoking read that I would urge you to have a look at. Please feel free to comment below with what you thought about it.
Summary - Main points that hit home to me:
- 30% of world's ice-free surfaces are used for meat production (either for animals themselves or for raising the grains to feed these animals)
- Americans on average eat 270lb of meat each a year. Bangladeshis on average eat 4lbs of meat each a year.
- 75% of the global emissions from cattle and 56% of the global emission from poultry and pigs come from the developing world.
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