Responsible meat-eating

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amey

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/05/vast-animal-feed-crops-meat-needs-destroying-planet

In the UK, pork is the second favourite meat after chicken, with each person eating on average 25kg a year in 2015 – nearly the whole recommended yearly intake for all meats. UK nutritional guidelines recommend 45-55g of protein per day, but the average UK consumption is 64-88g, of which 37% is meat and meat products.

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Thrasher in reply to @amey

There is no wonder that kidney disease is on the rise as well:

https://www.kidneyresearchuk.org/news/global-figures-show-staggering-increase-in-chronic-kidney-disease

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r_mash in reply to @Thrasher

I'd like to think that eating meat responsibly is all about balance/moderation.

I think we've gone too extreme in our diets, meat-focussed and sugar-focussed. They are easy filling calories.

Michael Pollan's writing on this subject is always reasonable: "a little bit of everything, but mostly veg". I think you're never going to get the average person to cut down in an extreme way (veganism, 100% veggie) -- so it has to be about balance. People's livelihoods depend on meat farming but we just can't do too much of it.

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