Updates in
technology and management have improved efficiency and reduced animal
agriculture’s impact on the environment.
Jim Mintert is an ag
economics professor at Purdue University.
“We use far fewer resources to produce food, in the case meat, using fewer land resources, fewer feed resources, and less manure output,” he says.
Mintert uses the
pork sector as an example…
“Pork production in the US since 1990 has increased 70 percent and yet we’re doing that with a hog breeding herd that’s nine percent smaller than it was in 1990,” he says.
