Americans eat an average of 222 pounds of meat each year. Though we only rank 17th in world per capita consumption (Denmark ranks #1, followed by the Czech Republic and Spain), that’s still a lot of meat– roughly 73 billion pounds per year, the equivalent of 146 million heifers or 18 billion chickens. We eat more [...]
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If You Eat Meat, Know Its Source
(Detail of a photo by VirtualErn.) The Reverent Eater reminds us that most store-bought (and restaurant) meat comes from CAFOs in which the animals are kept in appalling conditions— and fed food that they have no business eating. Cows are often fed corn (which they don’t digest well) and feather meal, the waste from chicken [...]
