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- lowimpakt0
one of the many many reasons why I became vegetarian was because meat is hugely inefficient way of getting food. I remember back during the massive ethiopian famine in the 80's (think live aid) the country was exporting massive amounts of food grains/stuffs. These were used mainly as cattle feed in the west instead of feeding the starving people. They had to sell the produce in order to pay off debts. This made me learn more about global food-systems and since then meat started to appeal to me less and less.
thats aside from the realities of intensive farming, hormones, BSE, mad cow disease or the massive amounts of pesticides cattle ingest etc.
there is nothing natural about the systems that get the nicely sliced and prepared slabs of steak in its shrink wrapped and barcoded pacakge on the supermarket shelf.