{"id":1318,"date":"2009-04-28T12:17:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T18:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2009-04-28T12:18:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T18:18:04","slug":"meat-eaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2009\/04\/28\/meat-eaters\/","title":{"rendered":"meat eaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2217022\/\">The Kindest Cut<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/\">Slate<\/a> is filled with mind-boggling statistics about food production, for example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>35 pounds of manure incurred per pound of saleable beef.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The poultry-broiler industry consumed some 240 billion megajoules of energy in 2005, or the equivalent of 42 million barrels of crude oil. That&#8217;s more than the entire country of Sri Lanka consumed the same year\u00e2\u20ac\u201dall to keep us well-stocked with wings and drumsticks.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The livestock industry as a whole consumes a whopping share of the world&#8217;s crops\u00e2\u20ac\u201dat least 80 percent of all soybeans and more than half of all corn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>food writer Michael Pollan recently suggested that if Americans went meatless one night a week, it would be equivalent to taking &#8220;30 to 40 million cars off the road for a year.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do like eating meat, but we&#8217;ve tried to cut back a bit. Maybe we should look in to raising some chickens in the back 40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kindest Cut on Slate is filled with mind-boggling statistics about food production, for example: 35 pounds of manure incurred per pound of saleable beef. and The poultry-broiler industry consumed some 240 billion megajoules of energy in 2005, or the equivalent of 42 million barrels of crude oil. That&#8217;s more than the entire country of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[89],"tags":[274,278,104],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-environment","tag-food","tag-meat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-lg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}