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I've been think about this a lot over the last couple of years. And I have cut down my meat consumption quite substantially.
However I'm still not happy with choices I feel that animal welfare is not quite there yet. We have choices like fair trade organic and free range.
What I would like is animals that treated well and as nature intended.
The truth about food programme was an eye opener with a third of our chicken coming from Thailand. I found conditions not adequate, food is soy rather then grains for more protein and flouresecnt lighting is used to keep them awake for longer so they eat more. With careful breeding we can now get from egg to full size in about 40days.
I really don't think this natural and why the meat is of such poor quality.
To save our planet we need to use less land to grow animal feed. It's crazy. We can survive with much less land used for agriculture and stop destroying the planet.
Beef from America is also likely to increase after brexit and that even more of a horror story.
The first thing I done was to cut out fast food chains. But I have relapse ever so often. And halal and kosher is also pointless in my book and causes needless suffering for our eating pleasure. Our insatiable appetite for cheap meat needs to end.
Overall our percentage of meat in our diet needs be slashed. Not only for our healthy but the welfare of the planet and the animals that we choose to eat.