Where Is Red Meat Farmed And How?

Red meat is farmed on grasslands, grasslands have hot summers and have winters with not much rain throughout the year, they can average around -20°C to 30°C. rain (NASA Science, 2025). Red meat is globally produced mostly in the United States, China, Brazil and Australia. The animals are farmed by first the animals (livestock) are brought, females made to give birth while the men are slaughtered, once the females give birth, they are separated from their child or children. If that child is female, it will likely be used to make more children if not it will be slaughtered. The female will most likely also have to give birth more than once, when they can no longer, they will also be slaughtered.

The Environmental And Human Impacts Of Red Meat Farming

The environmental impacts caused by red meat production can include greenhouse gas emissions caused by sheep’s and cattle’s digestive system. Crop production, crops need to be made so that the animals can eat but, the land that they farm on and keep cattle cannot support the crops produced, this leads to changes in the land (NSW Government, 2021). Trees are also often cleared to make room for more mammals, therefor contribution to less CO2 in our atmosphere. In todays society approximately at least one third of food produced is made for humans. It was reported in 2012 that one billion of that third was wasted, can you even imagen how much of that is wasted now? (United Nations, 2012). The industry is also extremely incompetent and faulty because it takes a proximally 100 calories for 1 calorie out of cattle ( There have also been links to diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease because of eating meat this has also lead to approximately 2.4 million deaths world wide because of red meat (Zero Carbon Analytics, 2025). So not only has red meat farming killed over 80 billion animals world wide yearly, destroyed grasslands over the globe, cut down endless amounts of trees, plants and native wildlife but it is know slowly killing us (Our World In Data, 2024).

What Is A Realistic Solution To Reduce The Damage While Still Feeding People?

I believe that a realistic strategy would be to try and slowly cut down the numbers of mammals killed for food by 50% over 100 years (that a 2% decline every year) and at the same time that the number of animals is going down also have the amount of land being used cut down. I also believe that a substitute for meat should be veggie burgers also known as a plant-based or mock meat, it is made out of vegetables, seeds, grains and beans. Although it is not a perfect option and has its cons it has much less harm involved in the prosses then what a real meat does.

I believe in doing this because killing millions of animals each year is simply not needed as people can live long healthy lives on a mostly plant-based diet of vegetables and greens (One Green Planet, n.a). Trees being cut down to make room for these farms also adds to our emissions hugely (World Resources Institute, 2022).