Lose the Cattle, Save the World





If you’re eating meat say four or five times a week, at 300 grams a go, there is 1.5 kilograms in a week. If you have up that meat, you’d be decreasing your emissions by the same amount of 4.5 hours of driving. This is a massive difference. It’s much easier to eat less meat than it is to give up your car, especially if you are dependent on it to go to work.

The environmental cost of meat comes from the massive amount of energy that goes into its production. The impact of animals like cattle on the environment is huge, the amount of land needed as well as grain food is massive.

To produce one calorie of grain fed meat, ten calories of grain are required. The production of grains is far less taxing on the environment. This means for every piece of meat eaten, ten times more land is required, ten times more water and ten times more energy. Over the course of a year you could expect to reduce your carbon footprint by 1.5 tonnes. Comparatively, switching to a hybrid car would reduce your emissions by 1 tonne.

You don’t have to give up the meat totally. Just try cutting down, even by one or two meals a week. If you are going to eat meat, look for environmentally sustainable kinds of meat such as Kangaroo. Eliminating just land mammals, such as beef, pork or chicken from your diet can have a massive impact on the environment.

Let’s not pretend that it wouldn’t be good for you; studies have shown time and time again that a diet high in red meat increases you risk of heart disease, stroke and some cancers.

You are what you eat, make sure you are aware of how what you eat is produced. Know what the cost is on the environment.

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