Do you know: meaty diet is the "Best Worst Thing" in the Earth?
Humans love meat. Steak, fried chicken, bacon, pork belly, and sausages are just the best things! Eating meat has become so trivial that many people don't consider something a proper meal if there's no animal involved. This is pretty amazing since only a few decades ago meat was a luxury product. Today, you can get a cheeseburger for a dollar. P aradoxically, meat is pretty much the most inefficient way of feeding humans. I f we look at it on a global scale, our meaty diet is literally eating up the planet. Why is that, and what can we do about it without giving up steak? Humans keep a lot of animals for food: currently about 23 billion chickens, 1.5 billion cattle, and roughly 1 billion pigs and sheep. T hat's a lot of mouths to feed, so we've transformed the earth into a giant feeding ground. 83 percent of its farmland is used for ...