Meat is...food waste

So putting aside the ethical and health concerns over meat, another aspect of meat production that is often overlooked is how utterly inefficient it is to raise animals for consumption.

Animal agriculture uses over 80% of farmland, but produces only 18% of calories and 37% of protein.

Even when animal-based food is not "wasted" in the traditional sense, i.e. not thrown away, it creates more environmental issues such pollution, GHGs, soil degradation, and uses higher levels of resources such as land, water, fossil fuels than plant-based alternatives.

So why base your diet on something so resource intensive when there are perfectly viable alternatives that don't have such a negative impact. Why choose the least efficient option which is inherently more wasteful? We would be better off not producing such wasteful products altogether.

This is why I consider meat to be food waste.

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And of course as well as the environmental destruction the consequences of this inefficiency means that meat is a contributing factor world-wide hunger and poverty , all of which could be reduced with a fairer plant-based food system.