About eating meat
Some 😕 numbers ...
I am eating less and less meat, but still can't get myself to stop completely doing that.
To help and warn myself, and maybe also you, I wrote this article.
"Then I turned right and found a dead owl ..." is what happenend when I was
cycling from Moura to Mourao 🖱️ .
Too bad, they are so beautiful and so special (and specialized).
The best I can say is that I see only few roadkills*.
But owls and snakes are amongst the badest victims.
When it comes to owls that may be because they are hunting for ground-living prey.
Which also applies to snakes where they are even ground-living themselfs.
* But the question also is how many natural animals there are left anyway ...
This is what you could call a real dillema.
A prey at the ground means eating at the ground.
There were cars are riding ...
If mice would evoluate to fly then owls would not be killed.
But then the snakes would starf.
From hunger ...
About meat
But let's put this in perspective.
The number of animals killed for food in* the Netherlands per year (2018) and per day
(yes, per day, every calendarday) are :
Kills /year
/day
Chickens :
604.471.600
1.656.086
Pigs :
15.169.000
41.558
Cattle :
2.158.000
5.912
Calves :
1.504.400
4.121
Sheep :
536.900
1.470
Goats :
136.900
375
* But not for the NL since about 75% of this production is exported.
Where 100% of the environmental problems are not exported.
Environmental Factor
However, different animals have different "sets" of impact(s) to the earth's (only !) environment.
All in all the Environmental Factor is as follows :
Environmental /kg
/day
ranking
Chickens :
3 4.968.258
Least worse :
Chickens
Pigs :
4 166.232
Cattle :
16 94.592
Most worse :
Steaks and hamburgers
Cattlemeat is 4 times more worse then porcmeat, and chickenmeat is even a bit better.
Less Worse that is.
Carbon dioxide impacts
And the carbon dioxide impacts are as follows :
CO2 (kgs) /kg product
Remark
Airplane :
1740
Amsterdam - New York vv 1 person *
Cattle :
66
From Argentina
Cattle :
24
From EU
Pig :
9.5
Chicken :
6.4
Eggs :
4.5
Sardine :
2.6
Meatreplacers :
2.5
Moules :
1.4
* One (1) returnflight Adam - NY has the same impact as eating 3 (EU produced) entrecotes per day for 1 whole year.
And as eating 1 (Argentina produced) entrecote per day for 1 whole year.
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