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What’s the Beef?

What’s the Beef?. Confessions of a twenty-year-old carnivore By Andrew Beauregard. Why choose Meat?. Americans consume the second largest amount of meat per capita Grocery lists are something college students control I need more information to debate my vegetarian friend.

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What’s the Beef?

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  1. What’s the Beef? Confessions of a twenty-year-old carnivore By Andrew Beauregard

  2. Why choose Meat? • Americans consume the second largest amount of meat per capita • Grocery lists are something college students control • I need more information to debate my vegetarian friend

  3. Quantifying my Impact • Observe meat consumption over several weeks • Estimate weekly and yearly consumption • Use Clean Metrics food calculator to measure emssions

  4. Where I Stand • I eat roughly 2 lbs. of meat per week • The adds up 150 lbs. of meat per year • The three main types of meat I eat are chicken, beef and pork • My meat consumption costs approximately 515.15 kg of CO2 equivalent

  5. Breaking Down Emissions • 75 lbs of chicken • 1.81 kg CO2 per lb • 37.5 lbs of beef • 7.49 kg CO2 per lb • 37.5 lbs of pork • 2.63 kg CO2 per lb (75*1.81)+(37.5*7.49)+ (37.5*2.63)= 515.15

  6. What about context?

  7. The American Carnivore

  8. Solutions

  9. Alternatives

  10. Sources • Barclay, Eliza. "A Nation Of Meat Eaters: See How It All Adds Up." NPR. NPR, 27 June 2012. Web. 10 Nov. 2013. • Clean Metrics (2011). Food Carbon Emission Calulator. http://www.foodemissions.com/foodemissions/Calculator.aspx • EPA (2013). INVENTORY OF U.S. GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AND SINKS: 1990-2011. Accessed online on Nov 10, 2013 at http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/usinventoryreport.html • Laestadius, Linnea I., Roni A. Neff, Colleen L. Barry, and Shannon Frattaroli. "Meat Consumption and Climate Change: The Role of Non-governmental Organizations." Climate Change 120.1-2 (2013): 25-38. • UNEP GEAS (2012). Growing greenhouse gas emissions due to meat production. Accessed online on Nov 10, 2013 at http://www.unep.org/pdf/UNEP-GEAS_OCT_2012.pdf

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