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Hopping the pond to bring you some news that made me throw up in my mouth a little, a UK based food supplier named Tesco is apparently “recycling all meat waste into heat and electricity” (according.jpg)
to this press release on their corporate website) .
Tesco says their company is producing more than 5,000 tons of wasted meat each year which they then convert in to enough energy to power more than 600 homes for a year.
Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (Viva) has already called attention to the company on how gross their animal recycling really is. Viva told Tesco that the idea of power being created from meat would horrify many consumers. Read their full article here.
While it is admirable that the company is trying in many ways to be as green as possible with efforts such as diverting 100% of the waste produced by their UK business from landfills, it is a tad sickening that they are allowing their stores to over-order so much meat that more than 5,000 tons are “wasted” yearly.
Viva’s press statement on this whole debacle put it best; “To turn this wasted meat into power might seem like a good idea at first, but you have to ask yourself why is so much left over and why are so many animals dying to provide this excess? Surely killing fewer animals in the first place should be the aim.”
“Whatever savings are made by turning this meat into energy is more than voided by the huge amount of greenhouses gases generated by the farming and production of the meat in the first place.”
Related article:
http://www.meatinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/9159/Vegetarians_attack_Tesco_energy_scheme.html
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