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  tofu

  well cows can consume up to 25 times what a human will consume on the same amount of land to produce the same amount of calories i think the number 14 for pigs and 2 to 3 for chickens
  now this is not that they eat more than us per body weight its that after it is converted to muscle and then we consume the muscle it becomes grossly inefficient
  in Australia we produce 450 million chickens each year that is 22 chickens per person per year that same amount of feed and land use could feed a person  of a approx 50 kilo's in body weight for a year yet the 22 chickens would not be enough food for one person to survive for a year
  the other issue is that if all 6.5 billion of us ate meat at the rate of the western world we would require 650 billion animals each each year in order to meet demand.. plus the breading stock to produce 650 billion animals
  my point is no matter how it is produce 2 things must happen first you need to have available land to grow the food for the animal second you must kill the animal the first can be easy but degrading to environment the second comes down to ethics and for me there is no choice no kill
  thanks CraigOn Umbra on homegrown meat posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago 33 Responses

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  Green House Poop

  Thank you Umbra,
  Although I never see it fit to eat meat, dairy, eggs, fish etc... If someone does decide they can't do without these wonderful animals in their diet, well always consider the source and don't support anyone or any company that sells the wrong products. The Peta Meat is Murder really says it all you cannot under any circumstance eat meat without killing or having to pay someone to kill for you. That would be your animal hit man.
  I would encourage everyone that is not already Vegan to what the movie start to finish "Earthlings" then come back and comment on your rights to eat meat.
  But as Meat contributes to the degrading of the environment, Eat less or no meat and they will produce less the more that don't eat meat the less they will produce it ...simple boycott strategy
  On Umbra on meat eating and global warming posted 2 years, 1 month ago 41 Responses

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  Meat Eating Environmentalist

  Well,
  Peta neither road the backs of the UN nor did they create the Facts. I have been Vegan for the better part of 10 years now, and for 10 years I have been saying that you really can't be a true greeny unless you give up meat and dairy (notice I skipped eggs and honey but that is another story) Even in the post factory farm happy cow in the field happy chicken in the barn smiling pig in the meadow world. they still use a minimum of twice the resources that plant based alternatives do ....and you cannot eat beef without cutting down rainforest it takes almost 25 acres of land per cow not to mention the vast resources of water to raise each cow. And milk directly effects health and environment of every region it's in world wide

  But really why eat meat? Haven't we evolved? The cave man ate meat I would like to think my family has evolved quite a bit in the last 20000 years. And knowing what I know about nutrition what is the point of growing vast fields of soy beans, wheat, millet just to feed to animals when the soy beans, Wheat & Millet have more usable protein & Vitamins than the meat of the animals they kill to feed to human animals.

  I think the real issue now is that the western diet if extended to the entire population of the planet so all 6.7 billion of us ate 100 kilos of meat per years we would need about 9.7 earths to do so if the same number of people just ate plant based food well we can all have children and restore about 50% of our farm land to wildlife.
  The numbers add up and they are well documented do your own search you will find what I found.

  one report I read about 3 years ago claimed that 40-60% of all fossil fuel was used in the production, transport refrigeration and storage of meat, next time your in the grocery store just look how much of the fridge section is dedicated to storage of meat and dairy. The list goes on an on. Sorry meat eaters this is not a football match that you can win or loose we either all win or we all loose. And I for one think that if there is hope it come from compassion not asserting our dominance over the world but trying to live in our world...
  On Animal-rights group makes the stupid claim that enviros must be vegetarians posted 2 years, 1 month ago 208 Responses