2_2_Beef

Cow (cattle)
1. Water
  1. It takes 1670 L of water to produce a pound of beef (0.45 g), 11 times more than the amount required for pork or chicken.
2. Food
  1. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)
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  2. 75kg-300kg of dry matter (grass/grain) for 1 kg of protein
  3. 1/3 of world grain harvest
  4. Largest component of beef’s water footprint is the huge volume of virtual water consumed by cattle through their feed, in this case both forage and grain
3. Land
  1. Degredation
  2. Desertification
  3. Rainforest damage and loss (for example brazil, where forest is destoryed new rangeland)
  4. 28 times more land intensive than pork or chicken.
  5. Fertilizer applied to soil generates nitrous oxide, which has 300 times the warming effect of carbon dioxide
4. Immunisations
  1. medical companies
5. Slaughter
  1. Transportation
    1. To the butchers
      1. Tools
        steel and aluminium production
        energy
      2. Packaging
        synthetic plastic production
        Canned product
      3. Waste
        Disposal packaging
        Plastic use
        Incineration
        Air pollution through release of harmful pollutants
        Water pollution through byproduct release to water bodies
        Hindering biodiversity in water bodies
        Water usage to clear excess waste
        Water footprint
        Net fishing of waste may affect other ecological systems
        Half of every butchered cow is not consumed
        Animal Fat
    2. Refridgeration
    3. Roads and Infrastructure
    4. Trucks
    5. Fuel Production
6. Transportation
  1. Cattle Yards
    1. Infrastructure
7. Waste
  1. Manure
  2. California’s 1.4 million dairy cows produce as much waste as 28–56 million people
8. Hormones
From animal to beef
1. Abattoir
  1. Infrastructure
    1. Cold Room
      1. Storage
        Air conditioning
        Electrical energy
        CFC's/ Carbon Dioxide
        Beef production accounts for 500% more climate warming emissions than pork and chicken.
    2. tools
    3. construction
Shops
1. Money
2. Transportation
  1. Home
    1. Waste
      1. Beef represents the largest contribution to post-consumer GHG emissions embodied in food waste
3. Plastic Bags
  1. Manufacturing
    1. crude oil
    2. gas
  2. waste
    1. Landfill waste
      1. Area no longer available for growth of ecologival system
        Harmful release of gases to the atmosphere
4. Receipts / Dockets
  1. Factory
    1. forestry
    2. water use
    3. transport
      1. infrastructure
5. Marketing
  1. Independant firms
    1. TV
    2. Radio
    3. Catalogues and other print media
      1. paper
        wood
        foresty
      2. ink
      3. water
      4. waste
      5. recycling
        water
    4. Headquarters
      1. Building
        Utilities
        Concrete
        steel
      2. wokers
        Transport to work
    5. Billboards
6. Fastfood industry
  1. Fatty food
    1. Health problem
Cooking
1. BBQ
2. Fry Pan
  1. steel
    1. manufacturing
      1. utilities
3. utilities
4. Human body
  1. Dioxin (Cancer causing)
  2. Alzheimer's disease
  3. Cardiovascular disease
  4. Heart disease
  5. Dementia
  6. Obesity

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