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Organic mince is the greenest meat

Tuesday 27 October 2009

Organic mince is the greenest and most animal friendly meat you can eat, according to a ranking of 16 meat and meat replacement products drawn up by environmental and animal welfare organisations.

Quorn, made from edible fungus, topped the list of protein-rich foodstuffs in terms of its effect on the environment and animal welfare.

Mince is a high scorer because it is made from dairy cows and is therefore a bi-product of the dairy industry, the groups said.

Bottom of the list is conventional beef. Raising cattle for beef production not only requires a lot of grass and other foodstuffs, but the animals themselves produce a lot of methane, which is a greenhouse gas, environmental advisor Hans Blonk told the Volkskrant.

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Sorry, misread the article... thought it said 'organic mice' is the greenest meat.

By geuzen76 | October 27, 2009 9:28 AM

and mince is....? Ground beef I presume? I am not totally sure though.

Editor's note: indeed it is!

By Laura | October 27, 2009 11:45 AM

So long as it doesn't become "Soylent Green."

By stevie | October 27, 2009 12:06 PM

I should have thought that any sort of wild game meat would be more "animal friendly" than any sort of domestically produced meat, except perhaps the meat of family pets (depending on your philosophical inclination on the subject of companion animals).

Since we're not able to ask animals, wild or domestic, what their preferences are, the only guidance we have is that of the Golden Rule.

So - what would most people prefer - to live a life of freedom in their natural habitat and then one day be spared the painful experience of normal wilderness demise (disease, starvation or mauling by carnivores) by a hunter's bullet, or to live a life of (at best) tedious confinement ending in a frightening and painful trip to and through the slaughterhouse?

By otropogo | October 27, 2009 7:06 PM

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