In a bizarre eco-twist, UK food chain Tesco has come under fire for recycling their waste meat into electricity. As part of a green initiative the retail giant has been sending an estimated 5,000 tons of inedible meat to Cheshire-based PDM Group that, in turn, burns the meat for fuel in its biomass plant.The energy is then used for electricity in UK homes.
Tesco’s green initiatives apparently don’t sit well with some vegetarians.
Justin Kerswell, campaigns manager for Viva (Vegetarians International Voice for Animals UK), explained in an interview to the Daily Mail UK: 'It's a sad indictment of modern life that not only hundreds of millions of animals are killed each year in the UK, but so much meat is left over from greed and indifference.
Tesco defended the practice of recycling the old meat into energy as a ‘greener’ practice than sending it to the landfill.
However, recycling meat is much more inefficient than reducing meat production in the first place. Meat is considered to be one of the most carbon intensive forms of food in the human diet. The UN’s Livestock Longshadow Report found that livestock is responsible for an estimated 18% of all greenhouse gases, more than all forms of transport combined.
Via: The Daily Mail UK
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