Beretta Farms freezes their meat only. There is no ‘fresh’ product. pt.II
My hypothesis model in part one is an efficient means to control food wastage while supplementing diets with vegan and vegetarian options.
Think about this:
When one isn’t eating meat, meat isn’t going to waste—unless its being preserved or not being produced at all. But unless what isn’t being purchased in the meantime (meat products for example) is being preserved, it is actually going to waste despite good intentions and positive effort. The other solution is having zero meat production and livestock growth to combat GHG emissions from livestock production (to me this also seems difficult to accept on a widescale basis, it would mean the world, a city, or a country would become vegetarian or Vegan)
My hope is that by not eating meat, nothing in the grocery store has gone to waste because all meat in the grocery store is like Beretta’s model--it is frozen, and provided in smaller amounts.
With my hypothesis, one can eat Vegan on Monday, eat Vegetarian Tuesday to Friday, and have a Beretta Farms Turkey kebab on Saturday from the freezer. They consume less meat, and thus demand for meat lowers. Because demand for meat is lower, less animals who life purpose is for consumption need not exist. Meats are preserved rather than wasted. Livestock GHG footprint decreases.
*Mother Earth smiles at results*
The biggest hurdle for this is obviously multiple-party compliance. Not only is compliance from me, it is from my neighbour three doors down, it is also from my grocery store who will supply less meat, and it is from the farmers who will grow less livestock for smaller demand.
I can’t make this change in the food system, but it is one consideration we ought to think about, and one move Selectivity tries to take in actively changing the food system.