Austria is meat champion in German -speaking countries with questionable consequences. While experts advise considerably less meat consumption, Austria consumed the recommended annual amount of meat tomorrow.
This Thursday (April 10), people in Austria have already eaten the entire recommended annual amount of meat. The animal welfare organization then pulled four legs on Tuesday. In German countries this means the top position: Germany eats nearly 52 kilograms of meat per head of the population and the year, Switzerland nearly 46 kilograms, in Austria, on the other hand, 57.6 kilos were crushed in Austria.
More than 1.1 kilograms of meat per week
The Eat-Lancet Commission, an association of international scientists, recommends a maximum annual consumption of 15.7 kilograms. Based on this, “Lord and Mrs. Austrian” will reach the volunteer work of the volunteer work, ie the “meat expansion day”, according to calculations of the Four Paws this Thursday.
The people in Germany eat more than 1.1 kilograms of meat per head of the population – the converted are more than seven schnitzel.
It needs 88 years to eat healthily
Finally, meat consumption fell slightly – in 2022 it was 58.6 kilos. If the reduction continues to run, the recommended amount of 15.7 kilos is only reached in 88 years, namely 2113, according to the NGO.
“With our meat consumption, we are almost twice as high as the global average, which is only 33.8 kilograms,” campaign leader Veronika Weissenböck, who referred to animal disease through mass production, as well as a waste of resources, high CO2 emissions and the breakdown of the rainwork for. Moreover, your own health is “huge from these meat”.
106 million animals that were slaughtered annually
Every year in Austria, more than 106 million animals are slaughtered for human consumption. Animal rights activists see one of the causes of high consumption in discounts on meat products. Since 2005, the share of the promotion in the supermarkets has doubled, almost 50 percent of the meat has been purchased a discount.
The four legs require a stop of the discount campaigns and a transparent labeling of animal foods through preservation and origin in trade and gastronomy.
Source: Krone
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