A Well-Fed World’s Supply and Demand
Over their lifetime and beyond, livestock are an energy intensive commodity. From feeding, through slaughter, to refrigeration, and in resultant human ailments such as heart disease, maintaining animals as a food source is an inefficient use of resources. ‘Yeah, yeah,’ you might reply, ‘but what does that really mean?’ At the D.C. VegFest on Saturday, Dawn Moncrieffe, founder of A Well-Fed World, took the stage and illustrated her point with a hot button topic: gas prices. Currently, Americans consume more meat than any other country in the world. However, globalization has promoted a rise in meat consumption around the globe, … Continue reading A Well-Fed World’s Supply and Demand