Surely if you factor in all the fertilisers used to grow food for the cow/bull etc then to have a fair comparison you must also account for the same fertilisers used to grow food for the people who work in the Quorn factory?
(Yeah really really picky but hey, I'm bored )
Well yea if you want. But then you have to factor in the farmer who rears the cows, his labourers, the butcher, lorry driver etc etc etc, you can go on forever! It might be interesting to see how many people actually work to produce a kilo of quorn versus a kilo of steak and do a comparison that way but i have no idea how you'd go about it.
If you look at it logically then theres no point whatsoever in Quorn.
If you want something that looks and tastes like meat then eat meat.
We've already established that both processes are wastefully inefficient in production of the final product.
If you don't want to eat meat then don't eat it.
Therefore a single meat producing process thus halving the environmental impact. Simples.
Proof that hippies are killing the planet by their unnatural urges.
Awful lot of assumptions in this post.
If you want something that looks and tastes like meat but doesnt have any of animal welfare issues then eat quorn.
We've already established that both processes are wastefully inefficient in production of the final product but we have no actual figures, just assumptions that because its an industrial process it must be extremely environmentally damaging. Yoghurt is essentially processed but i dont hear many people complaining about that!
As for the rest of it, read my OP. I do still eat meat. I love meat and ive just started this journey. Eventually the aim might be to do away with quorn, however for now even a meat substitute is better than no meat. At least quorn is produced in this country, bringing the food miles down.
A general note to everyone though. The semi vegetarianism was never the point of this post, i can see now why the writer of fake plastic fish created a separate vege blog rather than combining it with her hatred of plastics. The point was to tell people about plastics and try and give some people ideas on how to reduce their usage, as well as to show people the damage they do. Perhaps this link will help:
From the Photographer Chris Jordan said:These photographs of albatross chicks were made in September, 2009, on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.
~cj, Seattle, October 2009
http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=11