@joz*garage wrote:
We should be cutting down on meat consumption. Too much is not good for you.
Who is consuming too much?
I'll have balanced meals that includes meat (me likes it) each day
The only issue I see with meat is animal farming that heavily impacts on the environment
methane gas etc etc
I think if you look into the carp that is pushed by the vegie and vegan lobby, you will that a lot of the information bandied around is based on intensive Northern hemisphere farming systems. While land is certainly cleared for grazing, it is also cleared to grow crops so that issue is a neutral, no win one for either side.
On the subject of water used to produce a kg. of beef compared to a kg. of vegies, the extravagant claims of the greens movement are based on feeding animals on intensive irrigated crops and intensive winter housing as practiced in Europe, rather than the broadacre grazing methods used in Australia. And water isnt just used. It rarely breaks down, it just vaporises and returns to earth as rain. It is a cycle, not a single use, end product as the greens would have us believe.
The same applies to methane emissions. Yes if you feed an animal a diet high in irrigated crops and whole grains, they are going to produce a lot of excess gas. The reason being they are not really designed to eat that type of diet. If you feed them salt bush and blue bush or harder native pastures as used by Australian graziers, the diet is much more natural and the animal creates less emissions.
There is a lot of diesel fuel emissions, phosphate damage to water systems, herbicide damage to the environment, dergradation and errosion of fragile soils, exploitation of low paid workers and insecticides killing our micro fauna and bee's involved in getting your fresh, unblemished tomatoes and lettuce to the supermarket shelves.
As with most things pushed by the greens / animal rights movements, there are a lot of porkies dressed up as pork. Lies and carefully selected statistics told to an unsuspecting public who usually accept them at face value without taking the time to really think through the issues logically.
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