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 Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:56 am Post subject: "Re-Thinking the Meat Guzzler" |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html
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A sea change in the consumption of a resource that Americans take for granted may be in store � something cheap, plentiful, widely enjoyed and a part of daily life. And it isn�t oil.
It�s meat.
The two commodities share a great deal: Like oil, meat is subsidized by the federal government. Like oil, meat is subject to accelerating demand as nations become wealthier, and this, in turn, sends prices higher. Finally � like oil � meat is something people are encouraged to consume less of, as the toll exacted by industrial production increases, and becomes increasingly visible.
Global demand for meat has multiplied in recent years, encouraged by growing affluence and nourished by the proliferation of huge, confined animal feeding operations. These assembly-line meat factories consume enormous amounts of energy, pollute water supplies, generate significant greenhouse gases and require ever-increasing amounts of corn, soy and other grains, a dependency that has led to the destruction of vast swaths of the world�s tropical rain forests. |
Of course, it isn't just meat, either -- it's everything that we are consuming in such vast amounts. |
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