Animal Agriculture
The public nowadays are concerned about where their meat and produce come from, and farmers are moving towards improving animal welfare that will impact climate change. This movement is due to the transparency of agriculture in its modern and onerous time. Twelve states have banned extreme animal confinement, resulting in more use of green space in the natural environment for animals to roam and eat from the earth. Producing less meat products are driving consumers to eat more plant based foods. Through this shift in food consumerism, it is predicted to have less pollution, odor, better operating systems and food delivery.
How does this consumer movement on the type of food consumption effect climate? The authors of a recent article states that by using ecological regenerative systems that mixes with animal agriculture, plants and fungi, will be more intuitive to nature. This ecological movement will ultimately decrease greenhouse gases because the type of diet people consume is more conservative in energy used to raise animals, process the meat and ship it to the consumers. The earth, people and animals all benefit from this change in diet and industry.
Funny you mention decreasing consumption of meat. I just saw a news story stating that this year the US has the largest surplus of bacon ever. They apparently can't give it away. I guess that is a step in the right direction.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is!. I didn't know we had a surplus of bacon, so then, why is it still so expensive in the grocery stores?
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