The Environment

When sitting down to have a meal, you’re focused on the food and what it is about to taste like not what went into it. There is so much that goes into the piece of meat on your plate. The environment is one of those things to consider...

In order to raise these animals there must be a significant amount of land as well as food…makes sense, right!The space required to raise these animals is growing as the demand gets higher and higher.The typical size of a shed that houses chickens is 50 feet wide by 500 feet long!! Usually there will be a few sheds of that size lined up beside each other. On top of that some of these sheds are lit up throughout the night and hold heating lamps for the baby chicks, due to the absence of warmth from their mother. Think of how large these animals get and the amount of food they’d need to grow to that size. The amount of space for the food to grow, is incredible. 90% of the corn grown on the planet is for live stock. Yet cows stomachs are not designed to digest corn. Parts of the rain forest are being torn down simply to raise cattle. This ofcourse affects the habitat of the wildlife. Nearly one third of the planet is dedicated to live stock. And to think this space if being taken up and destroyed only to feed us. We are harming this planet without even realizing it. Most of us try and do our part on a daily basis but there are so many ways we are negatively affecting this earth without being conscious of it.