What is the problem with the 'animal meat' that people around the world love?

by pulaw

In recent years, many people around the world prefer meat such as chicken, pig, cow and steak, hamburgers, barbecue and so on. In the past, the meat of animals, which was not easy to eat as food, is easily available in the 21st century. A movie summarized on the problem of eating meat of such animal is published on YouTube.

Why Meat is the Best Worst Thing in the World


People love cooking with meat such as steaks, fried chicken and sausages.

However, it was valuable food material only when decades ago was said to be meat, it was said that it was often eaten as a special feast.

Because we need a lot of energy to produce animal meat ......

To eat meat means to eat the resources of the earth.

Humans raise many livestock for the purpose of getting food, breeding 2.3 billion chickens with 1.5 billion cattle, 1 billion pigs and sheep.

The earth is now being used as a "huge farm" ... ...

Of the agricultural lands existing on the earth, 83% are actually used for raising pasture livestock and cultivating forage crops.

It accounts for 26% of the earth's land.

In addition, it accounts for 27% of freshwater consumption in the world for the production of meat and dairy products.

The resources necessary to produce meat is enormous, and meat production is said to be a black hole of resources.

Since livestock are kept alive for a long time, they consume a large amount of resources necessary for food, water and other living things.

Among the resources used for breeding, nutrition which is eventually absorbed by the human body as meat is insignificant. For example, the protein contained in beef is only 4% of the resources consumed for breeding and 3% of calories.

The grain necessary to make 1 kg of steak meat is 25 kg and the water becomes 15,000 L.

On the other hand, it seems that calories obtained from human beings such as meat and dairy products from livestock are only 18% of the total.

Considering food and resources given to livestock directly to humans, it is possible to spread nutrition to as many as 3.5 billion people.

The meat industry consuming a large amount of resources emits 15% of the greenhouse gases emitted by humans ... ...

This is almost the same amount as greenhouse gases emitted by all ships, planes, trucks and cars.

And the thing which should not be forgotten is that "the meat was originally an animal with life".

From livestock it is no exaggeration to say that humans are massacre ...

About 200 million animals are said to be killed each day by human beings.

In terms of a year, about 74 billion animals are killed by human beings.

People say that they will kill a total of all the animals that existed from 200,000 years ago to the present day in only one and a half years.

Of course, domestic animals are created by human beings, food and land for rearing are also given by humans. Livestock can not survive without human who wants meat ... ...

Unfortunately the survival environment of livestock is not good.

The meat industry is operated very efficiently ... ....

There is no consideration of "living quality" of livestock there.

Animals can not get a relationship between their children and their parents ... ...

It is trapped in a narrow farm and eats feed containing antibiotics.

Especially the poultry farm is a bad environment, so we are constantly fighting each other because the distance is too close to each other.

Also, the baby chick was screened for male and female within a few minutes after birth ... ...

Male chicks that can not lay eggs are immediately disposed of. Hundreds of millions of chicks annually are being disposed of immediately after birth.

So, if the organic farm where livestock is raised in nature, is the "quality of life" of animals preserved?

There are many producers who keep breeding animals sincerely at a pasture where organic breeding is surely carried out ......

The meat production is a business to the last. The scandal that illegal acts were done in an organic farm is not going down.

Also, because organic livestock raising requires a lot of resources, damage to the environment will be more than conventional meat production.

Future generations may be furiously angered by the fact that people in the 21st century were sacrificing animals to gain a large amount of meat.

However, dishes such as steaks, hamburgers, fried chicken do not stop stimulating people's desires.

On the other hand, few people look to the reality that many animals are suffering to produce the meat we are eating.

How can we deal with this unfiltered reality?

As an easy way to save livestock, there are ways to replace diet, trying to select things other than meat such as vegetables at the time of eating meat. It is possible to greatly reduce the amount of meat consumed by making a day that does not eat meat only even one day a week.

Also, although it costs a little, there are also hands from a reliable meat seller to buy meat produced by a farmer who is breeding livestock soundly.

And, it is said that the common action "to eat purchased ingredients firmly" is also important.

The average American people say they are throwing out about 1 pound (about 450 g) of food per day.

In recent years many startups are producing artificial meat ... ...

Some are distributed on a commercial scale like " Impossible Foods ". However, it is considered that it takes considerable time for these substitute meat to become common.

For the moment, when eating steaks etc., it seems necessary to be conscious of being valuable food with awareness that "meat is appreciated".