Still Waters Posted July 21, 2014 #1 Share Posted July 21, 2014 A new study suggests that the production of beef is around 10 times more damaging to the environment than any other form of livestock. Scientists measured the environment inputs required to produce the main US sources of protein. Beef cattle need 28 times more land and 11 times more irrigation water than pork, poultry, eggs or dairy. http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-28409704 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhen Posted July 21, 2014 #2 Share Posted July 21, 2014 (edited) There's a new documentary called Cowspiracy that talks about the problems with the increasing number of cattle used to fuel the meat industry. The conspiracy title comes from the fact that almost no environmental organizations recognize or want to discuss this topic. [media=] [/media] Edited July 21, 2014 by redhen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
:PsYKoTiC:BeHAvIoR: Posted July 22, 2014 #3 Share Posted July 22, 2014 It's settled. I'm quitting beef and I'm on an "all meat is bacon" diet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartan max2 Posted July 22, 2014 #4 Share Posted July 22, 2014 The vegetarians will love to hear this If they didnt run the study themselves hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rashore Posted July 22, 2014 #5 Share Posted July 22, 2014 I'm not at all surprised by this. I think it's a good thing there are studies going on about it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted July 22, 2014 #6 Share Posted July 22, 2014 I'm not sure how much I believe in the Cowspiracy movie. It was directed by vegans Keegan Kuhn and Kip Anderson. I'm sure the base accusations are mostly true, but I doubt the numbers they give. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefenceMinisterMishkin Posted July 22, 2014 #7 Share Posted July 22, 2014 I blame McDonalds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 22, 2014 #8 Share Posted July 22, 2014 I'm not sure how much I believe in the Cowspiracy movie. It was directed by vegans Keegan Kuhn and Kip Anderson. I'm sure the base accusations are mostly true, but I doubt the numbers they give. You only have to understand the concept of trophic levels(the losses at each stage of a food pyramid) to understand that making beef is 90% wasteful of your basic resources compared to simply eating the green stuff yourself. Its a crisis that will have to be addressed before long as serious starvation will result in all areas of the globe if it is not. Br Cornelius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted July 22, 2014 #9 Share Posted July 22, 2014 You only have to understand the concept of trophic levels(the losses at each stage of a food pyramid) to understand that making beef is 90% wasteful of your basic resources compared to simply eating the green stuff yourself. Its a crisis that will have to be addressed before long as serious starvation will result in all areas of the globe if it is not. Br Cornelius I do understand that eating vegetarian is better for the planet than eating meat. I just think that the numbers put forward are most likely overblown. I'll admit that I am part of the problem. I eat meat. I also drive an automobile, use electricity, burn wood for heat and use plastic garbage bags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Raven Posted July 22, 2014 #10 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Well there are benefits to free range beef - hay fields and pastures are building topsoil and so long as you don't overgraze the land, will continue to do so. The problem stems from factory farms... and all the filth associated with them. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 23, 2014 #11 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Very little beef is free range, and if it was beef would cost 10 times its current price or more. Br Cornelius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug1029 Posted July 23, 2014 #12 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I blame McDonalds McDonald's has a little problem: the Chinese government shut down the plant that furnished them with meat. Seems it was repackaging outdated meat and shipping it as fresh. How bad does it have to be for the Chinese government to step in? Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug1029 Posted July 23, 2014 #13 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Very little beef is free range, and if it was beef would cost 10 times its current price or more. Br Cornelius The optimum use of resources would still include a little beef. There are ranges that simply cannot be used to grow row crops - too rocky, too dry, too steep - that can nevertheless produce beef. Doug 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted July 23, 2014 #14 Share Posted July 23, 2014 One has to wonder how long until cows went extinct if humans didn't eat them or drink their milk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug1029 Posted July 23, 2014 #15 Share Posted July 23, 2014 One has to wonder how long until cows went extinct if humans didn't eat them or drink their milk. If humans hadn't hunted them to extinction, the wild auroch (ancestor of domestic cattle) would still be around. Doug 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 24, 2014 #16 Share Posted July 24, 2014 One has to wonder how long until cows went extinct if humans didn't eat them or drink their milk. There is enough diversity in domestic cattle that a viable wild species would emerge fairly rapidly. Cattle are perfectly adapted to savannah of which there would be large amounts going ungrazed after a human collapse. Br Cornelius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malaria_Kidd Posted July 25, 2014 #17 Share Posted July 25, 2014 About a month ago a press release from Washington D. C.'s White House made the papers hoping for further study on bovine flatulence. But the gas coming out of the capitol city overwhelmed the study! I read this news in yesterday's paper and it stank yesterday, just the same as today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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