''Meat Atlas'' () is an annual report, published by the
Heinrich Böll Foundation and
Friends of the Earth Europe, on the methods and impact of
industrial animal agriculture and the
meat industry.
[Damien McGuinness]
"'Meat Atlas' charts a changing world of meat eaters"
BBC News, 9 January 2014. Barbara Unmuessig, the foundation's president, said that the report's goal is to inform consumers about the consequences of increasingly industrialized meat production.
Synopsis
Overview
According to the report, based on figures from the United Nations'
Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)french: link=no, Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; it, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura is an intern ...
, the production of of beef requires of water, cheese 5,000 litres, rice 3,400 litres, and carrots 131 litres.
Mona Chalabi
Mona Chalabi is a British data journalist and writer of Iraqi descent, known for her publications with FiveThirtyEight and '' The Guardian''.
She was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award in the category ''New Approaches: Arts, Lifes ...
"Meat atlas shows Latin America has become a soybean empire"
''The Guardian'', 9 January 2014.
Over of meat is consumed in the United States per person per year, 60 kg in Germany, 38 kg in China, and under 20 kg in Africa.
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Pigs can reach their market weight with 10–15 percent less food if they are kept on antibiotics, but overuse increases the likelihood of ]antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when microbes evolve mechanisms that protect them from the effects of antimicrobials. All classes of microbes can evolve resistance. Fungi evolve antifungal resistance. Viruses evolve antiviral resistance. P ...
, so-called "superbugs."[
]
See also
*Beef hormone controversy
The Beef Hormone Dispute is one of the most intractable agricultural controversies since the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
It has sometimes been called the "beef war" in the media, similarly to the UK–EU Beef war over th ...
References
Further reading
''Meat Atlas''
Friends of the Earth, downloa
Meat Atlas
as pdf; download summary and policy demands a
pdf
''Meat Atlas''
Heinrich Böll Foundation
* Alexandra Endres
"Fleischatlas – Unser täglich Hormonfleisch"
''Die Zeit
''Die Zeit'' (, "The Time") is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany. The newspaper is generally considered to be among the German newspapers of record and is known for its long and extensive articles.
History
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'', 9 January 2014.
*Shefali Sharma
"Germans speaking out against industrial meat and agriculture"
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 9 January 2014.
''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' (; ''FAZ''; "''Frankfurt General Newspaper''") is a centre-right conservative-liberal and liberal-conservativeHans Magnus Enzensberger: Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen' (in German). ''Deutschland Radio'', ...
'', 9 January 2014.
"Fleischatlas 2014: Pro und Contra Fleisch als Lebensmittel"
WDR 5, 9 January 2014.
"Alarm over soaring world meat consumption"
'' Deutsche Welle'', 9 January 2014.
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