Given that in US (for example) there are 160 million pets and a cat eats around 200-300 grams of meat everyday, which is more than half of the global World population have at their disposal.
Assuming they weight around 30 grams it's ~1,800,000 tons of meat
That's a lot of meat, I didn't know people kept so many reptiles in their homes.
p.s. 1,800,000 tons of meat could feed 180,000,000 people in Africa for a year (assuming an average in North and Central Africa of 10kg/person/year which is optimistic for some of the countries there).
It's astonishing how much food we waste for silly reasons.
Check your math.
Which would still feed 18,000,000 million people in Africa for a year.
We had a few chickens who layed eggs and we ate the rest of them
My grandparents bought male chicks from said businesses because the ones hatching from the eggs were not enough to sustain a quite large family
You had to go there to buy them, so I don't think it was very costly
The logistics of killing the males and shipping the meat to companies making animal food is not more convenient (IMO) unless animal food is more profitable than human food, I don't know about it, but I hope it's not the case and it's not the main motivation behind it.
The point of not killing the male chicks I imagine is to show kindness towards animals, selling them (or selling the male eggs) to someone who could make food out of it, I think should be considered equally good, if not more.
180,000,000 kg / 10 (average meat consumption in North and Central Africa) = 18,000,000 people that could eat for a year.
(by the way, 30g of chicken at hatching are not 30g of meat)
Yes, of course!
(Facepalm)
> by the way, 30g of chicken at hatching are not 30g of meat)
And of course again, it's just to prove how much actual good food it's wasted by simply not considering the alternatives
30gr of chicken at hatching become 1.5 kg of poultry in 3 months
not killing them as soon as they hatch it's good, selling them to someone who's gonna eat them is even better
30gr of chicken plus many kg of corn (and, as discusesd in other comments, not all the chicken are equal when it comes to transforming corn into meat)
Why everything must be reduced to an industrial activity when clearly it doesn't need to?
I guess "teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" is not a good advice either, how much fish food do you need in a lifetime?
And who's gonna pay for it?
Global waste meats can't in practice all be shipped to Africa; and this seems a little bit like you think Africans should eat waste products.
Because, as I wrote a couple posts before "an average (meta consumption) in North and Central Africa of 10kg/person/year which is optimistic for some of the countries there"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_cons...
- Congo - 100 million people - 5.3kg/person/year
- Eritrea - 110 million people - 7.7kg/person/year
- Mozambique - 30 million people - 7.8kg/person/year
- etc. etc.
In Africa many countries don't have enough to feed their children and it's worst on average then in the rest of the World.
I don't think that chicken is waste (it is in fact the main type of meat they eat in Africa), I think feeding pythons in some western home with chicken is a waste.
They could feed them with mice they breed in their garages.
At least that's what my friend who own reptiles do
(I was joking, I understand there is less desirable horse meat that can still be used to feed animals)