It does include where he is trying to get the price of meat up to a point where no one but rich hypocritical asshats like himself can afford it.
He's an elitist prick.
Wow. Lil' chip on your shoulder there? There's a difference between banning all meat and going back to meat being a sidedish rather than the entire meal. For the record, I'm not a vegetarian, I simply think that the current mainly-meat-menu that's popular in Europe and the States is unsustainable in the long term.
More than methane production, meat production from cattle is very inefficient and resource-hungry compared to growing vegetables, farm-fish, chicken or insects. It should therefore definitely be scaled down in western diets in favour of more efficient foodstuffs.
You're growing food for animals which have a food conversion ratio (FCR) of anywhere from 3:1 to 8:1 (pigs and cows respectively), whereas chicken has a ratio of 2:1 to 4:1 and farm-fish anywhere from 1.2 to 2 (Salmon and Tilapia, respectively). All of the animals also produce waste, lots of it.
Let's take pork as an example - Smithfield is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) pork producers in the States. 500,000 Pigs at one of their production plant will generate more fecal matter per year than 1.5 million human inhabitants - about 26 million tons a year.
Industrial pig waste contains a host of toxic substances: ammonia, methane, hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide, cyanide, phosphorous, nitrates and heavy metals. This is in addition to the microbial and bacterial pathogens it carries like salmonella, cryptosporidium, streptocolli and girardia. A lot of pig **** is one thing; a lot of highly toxic pig **** is another. Where do you keep millions of tons of highly toxic pig ****** Why, in the open air in the ground, of course!
Rolling Stone said:
Smithfield's holding ponds -- the company calls them lagoons -- cover as much as 120,000 square feet. The area around a single slaughterhouse can contain hundreds of lagoons, some of which run thirty feet deep. The liquid in them is not brown. The interactions between the bacteria and blood and afterbirths and stillborn piglets and urine and excrement and chemicals and drugs turn the lagoons pink.
The lagoons themselves are so viscous and venomous that if someone falls in it is foolish to try to save him. Even light rains can cause lagoons to overflow; major floods have transformed entire counties into pig-**** bayous. To alleviate swelling lagoons, workers sometimes pump the **** out of them and spray the waste on surrounding fields, which results in what the industry daintily refers to as "overapplication." This can turn hundreds of acres -- thousands of football fields -- into shallow mud puddles of pig ****. Tree branches drip with pig ****.
Some pig-farm lagoons have polyethylene liners, which can be punctured by rocks in the ground, allowing **** to seep beneath the liners and spread and ferment. Gases from the fermentation can inflate the liner like a hot-air balloon and rise in an expanding, accelerating bubble, forcing thousands of tons of feces out of the lagoon in all directions.
More here:
Rolling Stone: Pork's Dirty Secret. Good read even if you don't agree with Stern.
Also: glazed crickets are delicious.
