The Australian Women’s Weekly Food

MEAT & DAIRY

LIFE ON THE FARM

We are a nation of meat eaters and it’s big business, with the Cattle Council of Australia reporting in 2020 that domestic consumers ate around 25kg of beef per person in 2018-19. But our appetite for meat is raising questions around the impact of a diet based on it. We are struggling to find a system that can keep up with demand while mitigating animal welfare impacts, localised environmental consequences and the system’s contribution to climate change.

PORK & PORK PRODUCTS

There’s a reason that it’s uncommon to see a field full of pigs as you drive through the countryside, because more than 1500 factory pig farms produce a staggering 90 per cent of our domestic pork products. ‘Factory farm’ is a term used to describe a very intensive form of farming, where the animals are not allowed to carry out their natural behaviours, are

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