Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants. We can survive without it; millions of vegetarians choose to do so, and billions of others have that choice imposed upon them by poverty.
Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less.
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.
Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.
In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
Beef should be organic and grass-fed; fish should be wild, not farm raised.
I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.
Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.
It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.