The Impacts of Eating Beef
The vegetariandiet, as it is now known, has become an increasingly popular food style in industrialized countries, sometimes for strong animalistic principles, sometimes for healthy beliefs and sometimes just to follow a trend.
The fact is, even if we can not completely exclude meat from the diet, it is useful to know the impact that the daily production of meat and various animal derivatives has on the environment and ecosystem.
A study conducted by scientists at Bard College in New York, published last July, shows how eating beef has an environmental impact 10 times higher than other types of meat.
Specifically, analyzing the resources needed to produce the foods derived from animas (meat, dairy products, eggs, etc), it is clear that beef is by far the one with the greatest impact on the environment. Beef requires 28 times more land and 11 times more irrigation water of other products coming from animals.
In light of this new data, the American EWG also encourages a change in eating habits aimed at reducing beef consumption by replacing it with chicken. This replacement would not only guarantee a significant reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases, but also a reduction in the use of artificial food used to raise steers at low costs and meet the current large market demand
Doctor Olga Cola for ToBeOrganic