Do you know what the intensive livestock farms?
Today how common is it to eat a steak? Go to the supermarket, choose a cut wrapped in plastic and Styrofoam, €4.50 at the checkout, and off home.
But do you know what’s behind that piece of meat?
Let’s find out together.
What are intensive livestock farms?
”Intensive livestock farms are one of the biggest and worst problems of the last two decades,” Roberto Fierro, master butcher of Fierro Food, tells us; ‘‘They are an ethically unsound business, focused solely and only on profit, with no regard whatsoever for consumer health. Animals are crammed into sheds, living without ever seeing sunlight or enjoying free range, stuffed with antibiotics and force-fed.”
Let’s not talk about conspiracy theories or absurd assumptions, intensive livestock farms do exist, and the damage they cause has been concluded for some time now.
But then why does anyone persist in ignoring or even denying the problem?
To date, we know that intensive-type livestock farms are the direct cause of about 13 percent of annual global pollution; we also know that animals are treated inhumanely, and the fact that they are stuffed with antibiotics causes harm to us as consumers in the long run, this is because by eating the product of intensive livestock farming, we become more resistant to antibiotics, promoting the development of new pathogens that will be born directly with resistance to today’s drugs, thus making us much more vulnerable.
How do we solve the problem?
”Meat is a valuable commodity, it should not be abused, and in fact its weekly consumption should be rationed significantly,” Roberto takes the issue of ethical livestock farming, which respects animals, the consumer and the environment, very much to heart. Changing one’s dietary regimen is easy, and it only brings benefits.”So many small steps lead to big goals, if we all bought less meat, but more high quality and from extensive farms, where animals graze freely and are raised properly, we would immediately see results, especially concerning our quality of life, and the pollution created.‘ ‘
So it is not too late to change things, all you have to do is want to, and all you have to do is consume meat responsibly.

