1. Impacts of Meat Industry On Environments
Presented by:-
Dharmendra Kumar
B.Sc. Agri. hons.
8th sem.
Submitted to:-
Mr. Akshay Kumar
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World scenario
Meat production and consuption
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Environmental issues
Global warming and causes
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Meat industries and environment
How meat production cause
environmental issues
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How to overcome
Conclusions
CONTENTS
Introduction
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3. Introduction
Nowadays climate change and global warming are major environmental problems.
As we know that behind these problems the major causes are vehicles, industries, deforestation etc. but these causes seems fals ,
every thing which we know about causes of environmental issues are wrong?????
According to the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation Cattle Raised for meat (beef) and dairy makeup to 65% of all livestock emissions, Livestock also
produces more than 100 other polluting gasses, including two third of the world's emission of ammonia which causes the acid rain.
New calculations based on UN FAO data and other peer-reviewed research finds that greenhouse gas emissions from animal farming in the EU account
for 17% of the EU's total emissions, the equivalent of 704 million tonnes of CO2, more than all cars and vans put together.
The analysis also shows the scale of possible emissions reductions, where a 50% reduction in animal farming would save the equivalent of 250 million
tonnes of CO2 - the combined emissions, from all sectors, of the 11 lower emitting EU countries.million
Only from Europe animal agriculture produce polution equivalents to 3 million times an aircraft fly across the globe .
4. World meat production remained stable in 2020 at an estimated 328 Mt, as output increases in poultry and ovine meats offset contractions in pig
and bovine meat production. Total poultry meat production in 2020 is estimated at 134 Mt, up 1.2 % from 2019, underpinned by a sharp rise in
demand in China. (FAO)
Beef production will grow to 75 Mt by 2030,
In 2021, around 132.3 million tons of poultry meat were consumed worldwide, making it the most consumed type of meat globally. Pork was the
second most consumed meat worldwide, followed by beef and veal.
Globally, we consume around 350 million tons of meat a year.
80 billion animals are slaughtered each year for meat.
Global meat trade in 2022 is forecast to reach 41.6 million tonnes, down by 0.8 percent from 2021, principally reflecting a projected decline in meat
imports by China by as much as 20 percent year-on-year.
Current scenario of meat production and consuption in world
Indian scenario
According to a research, meat production in India is estimated at 6.3 million tons annually and is ranked 5th in the world in terms of production volume.
India is responsible for 3% of the total meat production in the world. The nation has the world’s largest population of livestock at about 515 million.
Almost 70% of the Indian population is non-vegetarian. The per capita meat consumption in India every year is around 5.2kg. Chicken and fish have the
highest consumption rate.
India has the world's largest population of livestock. India produces around 5.3 million metric tons of meat and 75 billion eggs annually. India is the largest
producer of buffalo meat and the second largest producer of goat meat.
In 2022.
Poultry meat consumption:- 4 million tons
Sheep meat consumption :-735 thausend mt.
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Environmental issues
1. Global warming
Global warming is the phenomenon of a gradual increase in the temperature near the earth’s surface
Causes
Deforestation
Vehicals
Industries
Agricultural practices etc
Another issues
Climate change
Soil erosion and degradation
7. How meat industries causes Environmental issues
The global production of food is responsible for a third of all planet- heating gases emitted by human activity, with the use of animals for meat
causing twice the pollution of producing plant-based foods, a major new study has found.
The special report on climate change and land by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) describes plant-based diets as a major
opportunity for mitigating and adapting to climate change and includes a policy recommendation to reduce meat consumption.
Meat consumption will increase by 76% by 2050 not only because world's population will be 9.6 billion by then but also the increasing per capita
meat consumption and we will be growing more crops to feed animals than for ourselves.
According to the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation Cattle Raised for meat (beef) and dairy makeup to 65% of all livestock emissions, Livestock
also produces more than 100 other polluting gasses, including two third of the world's emission of ammonia which causes the acid rain.
About 44 per cent of livestock emission is methane gas and the remaining part is Nitrous Dioxide and Carbon Dioxide 29 and 27 percent
respectively.
Beef products, as commodity is the highest contributor to Greenhouse emissions 41% followed by the pig meat 9%, buffalo milk and meat 8%,
chicken and eggs 8%, cattle milk process 20% and remaining emission are sourced to other non-edible products.
8. How meat industries causes Environmental issues ??
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In last 50 year with increase in population and demand of meat is also increases so we can say that the population of poultry and cattle are also
increases.
In 2018, the latest year for which accurate data is available from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, livestock on EU farms (including the UK)
were responsible for the equivalent of about 502m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, mostly through the methane they release. That compares with
656m of carbon dioxide from Europe's cars and vans in the same year.
Cattles produces large amount of methane gas in the form of Burp during digestion of their vegan food.
From cattle manuar also produce Methane . Methane is most destructive gas for greenhouse effect as compared to co2 .It is 25 to 100%more
destructive than Co2.
In 20 year time frame methane is 80% more potential than Co2.
Apart of methane nitrous oxide is also produce from animal farming which is 296×more potential than Co2.
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Land and water uses
To make about 350 million tons of meat on a commercial level how many farm animals and birds are raered..?????
According to an estimation about 20% of land is use to rare them and grow their food.
Deforestation for land requirements
Over grazing
Large use of chemical fertilizers
In rain forest of Brazil (Amazon) rate of deforestation
is very high that will loose the title of rain forest.
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Water use
In Kip Anderson's documentry 'cowspirac' it said that to make one hand burger a total 660 gallons of water uses which is almost
3000 litre or it is equivalent to shawring for 2 entire months.
While millions of people around the world are experiencing droughts and
water shortages, much of the world's water supply is being diverted to
animal agriculture.
It takes 20,940 litres of water to produce 1 kilogram of meat, but only
503 litres of water to produce 1 kilogram of wheat.
A pure vegetarian diet requires only 1,137 litres of water per day, while
a meat-based diet requires more than 15,160 litres of water per day.
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We human consume around 20 billions litre of water in a year and the cattle used for meat and dairy products consume 8.5 times more water than
that.
On top of this the animals that are raered for meat and dairy they produce 10 time more waste than humans which eventually goes in water bodies.
It is clear that raising animals for food puts a tremendous strain
on our already limited water supply, and water is used much more
efficiently when it goes towards producing crops for human
consumption.
14. Waste from slaughter houses
According to a rough estimate a buffalo weighs about 2 quintals and almost 25 percent of the total body weight becomes waste. It generates 10 litres of
waste blood.
Specially developing countries in south Asia (India, Bangladesh, China etc. where slaughter houses seriously suffer from very low hygiene standard posing
a major environmental hazards due to discrete disposal of waste and highly polluted effluent discharge.
There are no special waste disposal system or treatment plants.
The solid waste is either simply thrown and dumped in the open fields or burnt or sold off to private parties. This has led to land degradation, air and
water pollution.
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Pandemics and super bugs
Meat consumption directly affect the human health, 3 out of 4 disease are from animals.
Zoonotic influenza.
Salmonellosis.
West Nile virus.
Plague.
Emerging coronaviruses (e.g., severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome)
Rabies.
Brucellosis.
Lyme disease.
Antibiotics and medicines given to animals cause resistance in bacteria and viruses make them super bugs, these super bugs can't control by any
antibiotics.
According to some experts of UK says that until 2050 if human didn't become victim of climate change then they will become the victim of supper
bugs.
16. Crueality in the industrialised Animals farming
According to an estimation daily 200 million land animals are slaughtered i.e 72 billions in a year.
Baby calves are separated from mother.
Animals are injected for soft and juicy meat.
Baby Male chicks are killed in layers farming
17. Biggest change we can make is by changing our food choices, going vegetarian is the way forward.
The best way to fight this system and reduce or eliminate its waste is to avoid meat altogether.
Choosing the plant based food can drastically cut the GHG emission.
Solution
18. Conclusions
Apart from triggering climate change, animals farming and meat consumption haven't left any other option.To satisfy short term craving people are not
able to see longer destruction.
But on the brighter side to reduce all this problems discoveries and research have started.
Apart from this to control the methane production in cattle many techniques are being used.change in their diet i.e feeding of seaweed reduce 80%
methane production.In cattle feed fat is also added for same purpose.
Cattles are vaccinated against methenogen bacteria.
Clean meat production—also known as lab-grown, in vitro, or cultured meat—is meat that is grown in cell culture, rather than in an animal's body.
Potential benefits of clean meat include sustainability, environmental friendliness, animal welfare, food safety, and novel foods.The efforts of producing
clean meat is also being made in labs because of this 99% less land and 96% less water will be used.