Soldato
I think giving up meat is silly. I do think the meat industry needs to be completely re-hauled though for all sorts of reasons. There is too much cheap meat produced and wasted. I think people generally should consume less meat than they should just to reduce the sheer quantities we need to produce.
The way we farm such large amounts cheaply require the heavy use of anti-biotics (far more than what is used in medicine for people). Wont go into why this is bad, there is a separate thread on antibiotics from a few days ago.
While i think lab grown meat is a cool idea, it is not viable at the moment due to production costs.
The health aspect of eating meat is bs. Yes too much meat is bad for you but only in stupid quantities of bad quality meat packaged with preservatives for longer shelf lives. You can lead a perfectly healthy lifestyle even if you wanted to put on huge amounts of muscle without eating meat. Many professionals are vegetarian and are healthy and built like brick houses, you gym nuts should know more than anyone else that variety of different proteins are available in vegetarian form.
Large retailers should be monitored on food wastage. I have worked in large supermarkets and have seen some of the smaller stores regularly throw out 3/4 cages of bread alone every other day. I have thrown away £3000 of Moet into a compactor for whatever stupid reason they gave at the time. Half a cage to a cage of meat was being thrown away daily rather than reduce it and take away sales from full price meat. If the general public knew how much they threw away and why, there would be outrage!
Dairy farming has significantly less impact relative to the return in food in comparison to meat farming.
The way we farm such large amounts cheaply require the heavy use of anti-biotics (far more than what is used in medicine for people). Wont go into why this is bad, there is a separate thread on antibiotics from a few days ago.
While i think lab grown meat is a cool idea, it is not viable at the moment due to production costs.
The health aspect of eating meat is bs. Yes too much meat is bad for you but only in stupid quantities of bad quality meat packaged with preservatives for longer shelf lives. You can lead a perfectly healthy lifestyle even if you wanted to put on huge amounts of muscle without eating meat. Many professionals are vegetarian and are healthy and built like brick houses, you gym nuts should know more than anyone else that variety of different proteins are available in vegetarian form.
Large retailers should be monitored on food wastage. I have worked in large supermarkets and have seen some of the smaller stores regularly throw out 3/4 cages of bread alone every other day. I have thrown away £3000 of Moet into a compactor for whatever stupid reason they gave at the time. Half a cage to a cage of meat was being thrown away daily rather than reduce it and take away sales from full price meat. If the general public knew how much they threw away and why, there would be outrage!
Dairy farming has significantly less impact relative to the return in food in comparison to meat farming.
