Reflection on The Environmental Geography of Beef
Reflection on The Environmental Geography of Beef I will be addressing the solutions to the negative environmental impacts of beef production on a global, local, and micro (household) scale. As an introduction, I will briefly talk about the negative impacts beef has on the environment that I talked about in my last post. Beef production has negatively impacted the environment by over-grazing fields, contributing to mass deforestation by planting food for cattle, soil degradation by planting the same food for cattle over and over again, contaminating the air and water from cattle waste, contributing to plastic waste when beef is transported and packaged, and contributing to mass amounts of greenhouse gases, which in turn depletes our ozone layer. The first scale I will be addressing is global, and what we can do on a global scale to reduce the environmental impacts of beef production. For this section, I found two resources that ha...