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Re: The myth of sustainable meat.
There are actually FEWER cows on farms today.
yes I agree with you and made these same points.
The Western diet contains much more of everything than at any time in history. We have our girth and disease to show for it. And even though meat is calorie-dense, the standard american diet (healthy or not) derives a majority of calories from carbohydrate and not protein/fat.
On that note, while everyone is debating cow farts again, I'm going to think about the sustainability of coca cola, fruit pies, canned frosting with rainbow sprinkles and crackers with cheese out of a can a.k.a 80% of most supermarkets. This would make a good post, I think. I wonder how much of our resources go into producing and consuming food with little or no nutritional value. How much CO2 does eating for entertainment produce? hmmm.
::raised eyebrow:: Huh?
Or offal, or even stuff like snakes and bugs and rodents.. all fine sources of animal protein that people in the US just aren't tapped into or interested in yet, but feed people the world over. If you focus primarily on poultry, beef, and pork, and just the choice bits and not using the whole animal, then yeah, it's not sustainable, but it doesn't address that those are only a tiny fraction of available animal protein sources.
Oh come on! Asking people to consider eating rabbits isn't even remotely like suggesting we start living on termites, or even guinea pigs!
People have been eating rabbit for hundreds of years and its on many restaurant menus. It just needs to be made more mainstream.
Sure. I'm not sure I understand your point though.
Yes there are people who will never change their ways. That doesn't mean "sustainable agriculture" can't be sustainable because some people will never touch that value chain with a ten foot pole.
It's two different markets altogether and the people who are stuffing themselves with supermarket ground beef don't really have any bearing on whether or not small organic, grass fed operations are virtuous or not.
I mean yeah, we could all become vegans, but the people more likely to become vegans out of those two groups are not the ones eating vast quantities of cheap supermarket meats.
Erp da derp. I got my figures confused. There are fewer dairy cows, but more beef cows (well, actually, beef cow numbers peaked in 1975, but as a trend there are more beef cows now.)
Forget me and carry on.