Row over plan to use unsold meat for power

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Kasz216 said:

Really depends how it's used doesn't it?

I've got a simple solution.

You can't sell the meat to power plans. Only donate it.

No profit = no increase in raising cattle.  It's just excesss.

 

Which is there point by the way.  They're afraid that either

A) Supermarkets will make money, or take less of a loss and therefore order more meat leading to a rise in factory farming.

B) Power Plants will start ordering meat directly from said factory farms.,, either because they're demand is greater then what they're getting in or they just avoid the uneven process of donation all together.

 

Seriously, just build a couple... and don't use them for baseline or mainline energy... perhaps have it work as "added" savings for the poor.  Such a plants likely would need to be government built though, with laws in place that allow the use of energy grids.  Not sure if the Uk has those laws or not.

You don't need to make the cost zero... The cost of the energy is much lower than the cost of the meat (that's guaranteed by simply the fact that much of the energy used to make and transport the meat is wasted, i.e. not stored in the final product).

This doesn't need any special solutions... the store can reduce its costs from wasted meat, but they'll still take a loss on it, and probably a rather big one.

BTW restaurants already sell their wasted grease (including oils, fats, etc) for making energy and maybe fertilizers too... this is just an expansion of that.