![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
About local meat supply
27 October 2015 01:22 pmActually, the whole thing about cost efficiency with great meat farms as it is today is eyewash.
The farms being far away from the potential customer, and the butcheries too, lead to long transport routes, which not only cost more gasoline than when they were in a radius of, say, 50 kilometers, the gasoline price all inclusive, but also the meat produced and carried into the shops walks right into the trap to be in the need of being long-lifely, so that the customer still has the rewards out of it.
All these measures and non-local availability make the price go hike up.
The highest price even comes at a different cost: Meat that comes in a further processed state and isn't in its raw state kept up living with being enclosed with oxygen in its package, it's in need for preservatives and other kinds of measures to slow down the aging process or to cover it.
So to say, the price at this kind of production method comes with the health of the one who eats it.
With transport routes that aren't scattered over half a continent only for "cost efficiency" and farms which cover large territories (and so: lange amounts of animals), there would be no need for any of this.
Not even to speak of the health of the animals that are going to be killed, but also all the pimp up treatments of them in the measure of "gaining more weight than is in the cow" and disease treatment (e. g. quick grip to antibiotics and other chemical bats).
The prices for meat also would drop because of the local supply and the greater scattered availability.
Meat that doesn't need to travel hundreds of kilometers before it lands in the shops, it doesn't burn that much expensive gasoline - not even to speak of "it doesn't produce tons of greehouse gases", it only produces a few ten to a hundred liters of them.
Plus, it would also generate a bunch of jobs because more separate farms require more personnel, over-economization like in huge farms is not possible, the local infrastructure that needs to get the meat to the customer also must exist, and more farms scattered around the landscape also need more butcheries scattered as to secure the shorter transport path.
In the matter of crops and vegetables similar effects maybe could be expected.
The farms being far away from the potential customer, and the butcheries too, lead to long transport routes, which not only cost more gasoline than when they were in a radius of, say, 50 kilometers, the gasoline price all inclusive, but also the meat produced and carried into the shops walks right into the trap to be in the need of being long-lifely, so that the customer still has the rewards out of it.
All these measures and non-local availability make the price go hike up.
The highest price even comes at a different cost: Meat that comes in a further processed state and isn't in its raw state kept up living with being enclosed with oxygen in its package, it's in need for preservatives and other kinds of measures to slow down the aging process or to cover it.
So to say, the price at this kind of production method comes with the health of the one who eats it.
With transport routes that aren't scattered over half a continent only for "cost efficiency" and farms which cover large territories (and so: lange amounts of animals), there would be no need for any of this.
Not even to speak of the health of the animals that are going to be killed, but also all the pimp up treatments of them in the measure of "gaining more weight than is in the cow" and disease treatment (e. g. quick grip to antibiotics and other chemical bats).
The prices for meat also would drop because of the local supply and the greater scattered availability.
Meat that doesn't need to travel hundreds of kilometers before it lands in the shops, it doesn't burn that much expensive gasoline - not even to speak of "it doesn't produce tons of greehouse gases", it only produces a few ten to a hundred liters of them.
Plus, it would also generate a bunch of jobs because more separate farms require more personnel, over-economization like in huge farms is not possible, the local infrastructure that needs to get the meat to the customer also must exist, and more farms scattered around the landscape also need more butcheries scattered as to secure the shorter transport path.
In the matter of crops and vegetables similar effects maybe could be expected.