Brad has a way of collecting the most awesome stories. No rubbish here! But I’m jotting about it for Just Jot It January. 🙂 One more impressive reason to give up beef, a powerful video on peace, increased awareness of food waste and how to stop it, and creativity are all topics dear to my heart. Thanks, Brad!
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Thanks to Wendy at Wendy’s Waffle for today’s prompt: rubbish. You can read more jots at Linda’s place: https://lindaghill.com/2017/01/19/jusjojan-daily-prompt-jan-19th17/
This week Awesome Stories brings you less beef, mothers for peace, food waste, and creativity for kids.
Bailing on Beef
I’ve been all over the map on eating meat, from meat lover growing up to vegetarian for 12 years in my 30s, and then in my 40s returning to meat in small quantities. It might be time to completely ditch the beef. From an environmental perspective, growing and eating beef is a disaster, especially modern day methods of feeding them grains instead of natural grasses. Compared to other meats, beef is far worse on land use, water use and emissions from the methane gas they emit. And compared to eating the grains directly instead of feeding them to cattle, the numbers are really bad. Beef uses 160 times more land and produces 11 times more greenhouse gas. Scientists estimate that giving up beef would have a greater environmental impact than giving…
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January 19, 2017 at 8:41 pm
Thanks JoAnna. I appreciate you and your enthusiastic support. I hope you have an awesome week! 🙂
January 19, 2017 at 10:42 pm
I have been buying grass fed beef more and I try to buy meat that is raised in the US. Grass fed beef does taste better.
January 20, 2017 at 7:38 pm
I’m not surprised. I suspect grass fed cows might live happier lives. Good for you! And good for the environment!
January 21, 2017 at 7:16 am
Interesting! Thanks for sharing, JoAnna. 🙂