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Eating animal products has significant impacts

What kinds of meat do you consume? Beef, chicken, turkey, pork, duck, other fowl, buffalo, deer, other game, fish, shellfish How often do you eat meat? 1x a week or less - 1x a day more than 1x a day - never

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Eating animal products has significant impacts

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  1. What kinds of meat do you consume? Beef, chicken, turkey, pork, duck, other fowl, buffalo, deer, other game, fish, shellfish • How often do you eat meat? • 1x a week or less - 1x a day • more than 1x a day - never • What kinds of other animal products do you consume? Milk and dairy, eggs, honey, gelatin (in Jello, some candy), glycerin (in toothpaste)… • How often do you eat other animal products? • 1x a week or less - 1x a day • more than 1x a day - never

  2. Eating animal products has significant impacts • As wealth and commerce increase, so does consumption of meat, milk, and eggs • Global meat production has increased fivefold • Per capita meat consumption has doubled • http://www.themeatrix.com/

  3. Feedlots (factory farms) Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) • Huge warehouses or pens designed to deliver energy-rich food to animals living at extremely high densities • Over ½ of the world’s pork and poultry come from feedlots

  4. The benefits and drawbacks of feedlots • Benefits • Efficient- more food, less land used • Drawbacks • Pollution- water and air • Disease in runoff from manure • Heavy uses of antibiotics to control disease • Animal treatment concerns

  5. Energy choices through food choices • 90% of energy is lost in each step of food chain • Some animals convert grain into meat more efficiently than others • Eating lower on food chain = less energy lost

  6. Environmental ramifications of eating meat Land and water are needed to raise food for livestock

  7. Aquaculture • raising aquatic organisms for food in a controlled environment • open-water pens or land-based ponds

  8. Aquaculture is growing rapidly • The fastest-growing type of food production • Provides a third of the world’s fish for human consumption • Most widespread in Asia

  9. Benefits: A reliable protein source Sustainable Protects wild fish Energy efficient Drawbacks: Diseases, antibiotics Reduces food security Waste Disease introduced to wild populations The benefits and drawbacks of aquaculture

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