Animal product
As animal products or animal products , all products are related to their human use referred either directly from animals to be produced such. B. meat and leather , or come from living animals or are collected from them, such. B. Milk and honey .
Overview
- Mammals : Food ( meat , fat , offal , milk , gelatin ), pet food, jewelry ( horn , ivory , animal tooth jewelry ), bone ( bone , bone marrow ), bone glue , whalebone , fur , leather , tendons , strings , wool , bristles and hair , Oil , soap , fragrances ( musk ), fertilizers , skin
- Birds : food ( meat , offal, eggs , some nests ), feathers , some leather, fertilizers ( guano )
- Reptiles : food (meat), leather, tortoiseshell
- Fish : food ( meat , eggs ( caviar ), fish meal as animal feed), fish oil , sometimes leather
- Crustaceans : food (meat)
- Insects : food (meat, see entomophagy , honey ), wax , silk , dyes ( koschenilla )
- Mollusks : food (meat), mother-of-pearl , pearls , dyes ( sepia , purple )
- Echinoderms : food ( sea urchins and sea cucumbers )
- Cnidarians : food ( jellyfish )
- Sponges : The skeletons are z. B. used as a bath or table sponge. Today mostly replaced by products made of foamed plastic .
Rejection of animal products
The extraction or use of individual or all animal products has been and is rejected by various groups for religious, ethical, health or ecological reasons. The most well-known forms are the Jewish and Islamic prohibitions on the consumption of pork and the Hindu prohibition on the consumption of beef . The vegetarianism declines depending on the severity only products from animals slaughtered on or in its strict form as veganism any type of use of animal products for humans.
Environmental balance
The environmental balance of animal foods is often bad. For example, a study published in the journal Science shows that animal foods consume approximately 83% of the world's arable land and make up about 57% of the production of food, but provide only 18% of the energy in human nutrition. The production of animal foods requires significantly more energy in the form of fodder crops than is available in the animal end product. The study shows that renouncing the consumption of animal products would reduce agricultural land use by around 3.1 billion hectares, which corresponds to the area of Australia, China, the EU and the USA.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Poore, J. & Nemecek, T. (2018). Reducing Food's Environmental Impacts through Producers and Consumers. Science, 360 (6392): 987-992. doi : 10.1126 / science.aaq0216