Farewell to the steak, Arte on the over-consumption of meat

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Farewell to the steak, Arte on the over-consumption of meat




by Christophe » 30/07/13, 20:47

Tonight on Arte: http://future.arte.tv/fr/sujet/adieu-au-steak

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Little analysis: http://teleobs.nouvelobs.com/la-selecti ... iande.html

Farewell to steak: 4 lies about meat

No doubt consumers love meat. Europe produces more than 45 million tonnes per year and world consumption has increased fivefold in fifty years. The steak is a symbol of strength, gastronomy, and nature. In France, there is no good table without a piece of beef. And, on both sides of the Rhine, the advertisements rhyme cows and pastures. But what if it was all deception? This is shown in the documentary by Jutta Pinzler, which describes the behind the scenes, voice over by Nathalie Baye in support.

First lie: the outdoors. In reality, the 70 kilos of meat that a Frenchman eats each year comes for a large part from industrial farms, in which the animals hardly see the day. Example: these 38 chickens from a German farm, stuffed with antibiotics from birth. By pure prevention. With the consequence of the appearance of resistant germs, which would be responsible for more than 000 deaths per year.

Second lie: meat is good for health. Even though it is known to be responsible for overweight, cardiovascular disease and cancer. In China, these diseases have seen a sharp increase since red meat came to the table. "In the next twenty years, 21 million Chinese will suffer from cardiovascular diseases, warns a doctor. They could be fatal for a third of them."

Third lie: animal welfare. You just have to visit a fattening farm in Denmark, the second largest pig producer in the world. Pigs crowded under neon lights, sows in cages eight months a year, doped with hormones ...

The fourth lie, finally, concerns rural Latin American populations faced with the explosion of fodder crops destined for European farms. And pesticides, responsible for diseases and malformations. Why these dramatic situations? "It is the market which decides", slice Roger Waite within the European Commission. Words that sound like insults to human dignity.
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by raymon » 31/07/13, 10:22

Depending on the meat we consume, the effects on CO2 pollution or on food consumption are very different:

in co2 emission:
1 kg of beef is 27 kg of co2 equivalent
1 kg of chickens is 3.7 kg of co2
about 8 times less
http://chiffres-carbone.fr/posters/

The ecological footprints of the main types of meat are 54:

beef: 121,8 m² / kg;
pork: 42,6 m² / kg;
poultry: 21,7 m² / kg;

compare with 4,6 m² / kg for fruit and 4,2 m² / kg for vegetables.


And 5 times less area for poultry. Conclusion poultry is the least polluting meat. I did not find the consumption in kg of food but for a beef it is approximately 10kg of food per kg of meat and a chicken it is approximately 3 kg of food for 1 kg of meat.
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by Janic » 31/07/13, 10:33

and long live veganism! : Cheesy:
whatever the subject concerned one can realize the lack of information and misinformation of the general public. Fortunately, the media began to free themselves from the shackles of the official press, a great protector of the interests of lobbies, and then filtered this kind of documentary. Will this change or will it change the eating behavior of our societies? Very little because it takes between 2 to 3 generations for it to be so and the cloth burns despite everything.
For the anecdote, when I intervened on the VG sites to speak to them about ecology, the answer of many was: "why environmentalists or so-called people continue to eat products that generate pollution for the planet"and when I did and do the same on ecological sites, it is the same answer:"why the VG are so little concerned with ecology apart from their stupid things"Monologues of the deaf!
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by Christophe » 13/11/13, 18:16

Comparison of tonnages of wheat intended for animal and human consumption:

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ps: yesterday documentary on France2 on pork consumption ... by "the bitch" (who had talked about her about the doc she had done on the Coca-Cola) I will make it a subject ...
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