Let's Talk Beef

Random Fact of the day: "Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together."
That figure comes from no less authority than the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Ha-ha anybody who knows me is moaning and complaining already because they know where I’m going with this. I don’t eat red meat (which for anyone who doesn’t know beef is considered red meat). Now there are 3 main reasons for this odd little quirk of mine.
1) The Beef Industry (which includes the actual cows with all the space and other resources they take up, the machinery used when taking care of cows and butchering these innocent creatures, and then shipping all this beef all over the place to be eaten) is not healthy for the Environment.
2) Beef is not really healthy for you either (I don’t care how good you claim it tastes). It makes you fat, gives you high cholesterol, and so on. If you keep eating beef like you are now you’re more likely to have a heart attack later.
3) I got bored one day and decided to work on this whole concept of will power, so I decided to deny myself something I enjoy t see if I could do it (originally I gave up all meat but my mother claimed I was going to starve to death because I don’t eat enough vegetables as it is and I do really enjoy chicken so I decided to just give you the red meat part).
Now reason three is my own personal decision and I really don’t think it will pursued you to give you red meat so I won’t explain that anymore and reason two is more of a health aspect which I may touch on later (because believe it or not fat people affect our environment too) but it’s not really relevant as of now because I’m talking about wasted resources right now not health care (but believe me I have an opinion on that too).
Now environmentally speaking today our world produces massive amount of grain yearly, like enough grain to feed 6 billion people a sufficient vegetarian diet, yet we are using nearly one third of this grain to feed livestock. Now of all the grain produced in the US alone nearly 75% of this goes to feeding live stock. So broken down a bit more if we took all the grain feed to just cattle then we could feed 800 million people. Which is a colossal number considering that every year 15 million children die of hunger (that’s just children, meaning I’m not including all the adults that also die every year of hunger too).
Ok so now you know that our own food source is eating more than we do let me tell you a few more facts. Our population is rising. It has been for a while and it seems to be a major concern that we may not have enough land here soon. So while were worried about where our grandchildren will be living cows are taking up nearly 25% of are available land….. And remember all that grain they consume? Well that grain has to be grown somewhere. So not only is livestock eating our food, they take up our living space, and waste even more land because we have grow excessive amounts of grain. And as anyone know all this farming just strips the land of all of its nutrients.
So all in all livestock is eating our food, taking our living land and stripping away our farm land. Which if you think about it really this is a negative feedback loop. Cows need grain, to get grain we need fertile land but the grain strips fertile land so before long there will be no more fertile land so there will be no more cows and then there will be now cows or grain and we shall all starve to death.
See this is the cost of the hamburger you had for dinner last night.
I’m sorry but this to me is just ridiculous. Does it really make that much sense to spend so much of our time and valuable resources to invest it into some farm animals, when our own people are right in front of us starving to death?