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2.5 Billion Pounds of Meat is Piling up in the US as Exports Slow Down

posted by martyb on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the It's-a-meat-wave! dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

WKBW-TV reports:

Some new numbers are showing that the U.S. has more than 2.5 billion lbs [1.1 million metric tons] of meat in cold storage warehouses, and it's all because Americans aren't eating enough to keep up with supply.

Another reason is that the trade situation is chipping away at global demand.

[...] The U.S. Department of Agriculture projects the industry will produce a record 102.7 billion pounds of meat this year.

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  • (Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:23PM (1 child)

    by SpockLogic (2762) on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:23PM (#713041)

    Maybe they are learning about the different forms of beef production, feedlot v pasture. Diet of grains and antibiotics v grass.

    This might be informative :- http://www.goodfoodworld.com/2012/01/grass-fed-vs-feedlot-beef-whats-the-difference/ [goodfoodworld.com]

    From Foxnews.

    Compared with the other animal proteins, beef produces five times more heat-trapping gases per calorie, puts out six times as much water-polluting nitrogen, takes 11 times more water for irrigation and uses 28 times the land, according to the study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

    http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/07/22/study-says-raising-beef-creates-more-pollution-than-pork-poultry-or-dairy.html [foxnews.com]

    Yes, I still eat beef. Sometimes it's what's for dinner.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DeVilla on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:18PM

    by DeVilla (5354) on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:18PM (#713097)

    The more heat-trapping gases trapped inside of cows at any given time, the better. Otherwise it would be in the atmosphere. Cows get their heat-trapping gases from the environment and give it back when they die (like the rest of us). The problem is the heat-trapping gases we dig up from isolation in the earth's crust and put in the air.