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Originally Posted by AKid2
I think we've got them packed in as tightly as we can.
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Hardly.
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The real issue here is meat production itself. Meat consumption parallels economic development, and not necessarily health.
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Well, meat is very good for you, so I would say it does have something to do with health.
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Meat is terribly inefficient;
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No it isn't.
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cattle use 70% of US grain and 50% of US water. It'll take 8 pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef. An acre of spinach produces 26 times as much protein as an acre of grazing cattle. Etc.
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Not sure about the grain statistic (even though I do know we export lots of our grain anyhow), but I do believe your water statistic is wrong. If I recall correctly, the largest uses of water are for field irrigation and thermoelectric power, not watering livestock. So actually, it is your fields that use more water than cattle.
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It's much less resource intensive to eat non meat products, that's why developing countries do it.
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Good for them. I will keep eating meat because 1) I like it and 2) it is healthy for you.
Also, it actually kills less animals than farming.