Dear MEL School’s
Topic Readers,
Beef environment
cost 10 times that of other livestock
Now it’s clear.
Beef is to be blamed among all kinds of meat in terms of the environmental
impacts.
A new research conducted
in the U.S., calculated the environmental costs per consumed calorie of dairy,
poultry, pork, and eggs. It suggests that beef production requires 28 more land
and 11 times more irrigation water and also emits 5 time more greenhouse gasses
and 6 times more nitrogen respectively, than the average of the other livestock
categories. It is mainly because beef has the lowest energy conversion
efficiency among the food group.
It sounds like
good news for meat or dairy food lovers because the easiest way to reduce the
environmental impacts is to simply switch from beef to some other meat products
or eggs. There is no need to be a
vegetarian or to give up meat dishes.
Enjoy reading and
learning how impactful to the environment to eat beef is.
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