Thinking Caps
MEAT’S
But how can this be? Well, when you think about
the whole system it star ts to make sense. A lot of
energy is needed to raise animals for food. Think
about this, farming animals means:
AND WE’RE NOT JUST TALKING
ABOUT ITS COLOUR...
A SERIOUS SYSTEM
Clearing space
(and trees) for
them to live on
Energy needed
to cook them
The energy
needed to keep
the meat
fresh so that
it doesn’t rot
on the way
t
Dealing with
their waste
(that’s a lot of
poo!) including
methane (yup –
animal far ts, a
big contributor
to greenhouse
gasses)
Energy to transpor t them to where
they will be killed, and then to
where they will be butchered,
andTHENtowhere
they will be eaten
Growing food
to feed them
Pumping water for
them to drink
NOT GREEN
Did you know that the industr y that gets your meat
on your plate is responsible for more of the climate
changing emissions than all the cars, planes,
trains, ships – basically for all forms of transpor t
PUT TOGETHER!
Today, people are eating more than twice
the number of animals than we were eating 30
years ago. In total, livestock farming is considered
to be one of the three major factors causing
climate change, and one of the largest contributors
to environmental destruction.
GOING GREEN!