too little for the organic farmer he sells them for nearly ten euro's apiece that's after raising them with organic feed for twelve weeks. conventional farmer on front who go can't wait that long he says speed and efficiency are needed to meet growing demand for chicken meat he says his birds are also more economical with feed as the only consume half water gana chickens eat. so this is what your chickens eat all day long with either the things this is around four point one kilos of feed. and at the end your chicken weighs this much two kilos so there's no money. roughly. so these chicks have a lot more growing to do over the next few weeks. meanwhile organic farming is expensive and sales are only growing slowly. a dirt cheap grocery bill can be so when sizing but there's usually

a catch. can get chicken from europe for an absolute bargain but it's decimating the local industry the country's president says it's partly why so many africans have been migrating to europe they can't compete so who's to blame the european union and its lavish agricultural policies african states and their lack of action for you the shopper i decided to find out. i'm here for my sake. this is where most of it arrives port in the capital accra as europeans prefer the breast of the chicken the leftovers end up here shipped in refrigerated containers

half way around the world. on our way from the harbor we visit the cold stores that sell it they tell us they only stock what customers want and the local farms couldn't meet the rising demand. these boxes have just made the journey from the u.s. state of georgia where the modern chicken industry was born these are from the netherlands belgium more than they can get their hands on. this customer wants his chicken even cheaper florence forty cooma argues she wouldn't even make a profit that. way or. the u.s. and brazil have also discovered the market for surplus legs and wings but europe is the top exporter to africa last year the e.u. dumped one hundred thirty five thousand tons of frozen chicken on the gunmen market alone for prices below the cost of production the equivalent of one hundred twelve

million birds an oversupply that gutted the domestic sector. this is the local competition and this is all the seen on court one of ghana's last poultry farmers. he started with two hundred birds. now he's got twenty two thousand the little ones aren't a hassle it's when they grow up. oldest and shows us a little trick for weighing their hands. and their pelvic bone keeps them quiet. but catching chickens is the least of his worries. is. that it is the. imported chicken. very high and then there is.

a decade ago produced eighty percent of broilers themselves production plunged with the foreign competition to less than five percent poultry farmers say one government after the next has let them down. the problem is augustine's chicken costs double the price of the cheap imports although he has one of the few large scale operations left in ghana it's nowhere near as efficient as its overseas rivals and like other farmers augusten doesn't have the infrastructure. it's. bogus since customers are is neighbors and friends. thank you so great if it doesn't work this one is for soup even in.

the yachtsman. might eat next day it's off to the market we'd like to know if there's a difference in quality between mass produced chicken from abroad and the local variety. it tastes good and is being fit and hard to see if the need. for a while and. said. was is also salt when. it doesn't last. i really like you know call one but oh my made the. oldest and says the only way he stayed in business is by diversifying he has his own feed plant. cause little bits so that there will.

cost dollars i tell you the reasonable price feed is the biggest cost for farmers europe subsidizes it keeping its farmers an advantage. and you has a raft of free trade deals with africa that gives both sides free access to markets but african companies are too small to compete dr jeff and i know you. never read government think that madonna was something that much then look out of one so that we would receive. and we. i'm out with that i think. the government has announced new import restrictions and says now local producers need to step up to the plate but which produces there are hardly any left. in there we're doing. to get up with my family so if you were pinned in

political square this business or collapse it's i don't know what i'm going to do to get my family. i don't know what to do. now this might not be any good for the livelihoods of farmers like augusten but what about giving up meat altogether vegetarians like to sell themselves as the super heroes of the world they eat no meat and so have a reduced footprint but is that really true and avocado can actually do more damage to the environment than a steak environmental vegetarianism fact or fiction. abstain from meat and save the world forget batman to them superheroes are vegetarians they're really doing something to help the environment right whether classic vegetarian vegan or fruitarian more and more people all over the world are giving up meat. vegetarianism has even become

a status symbol in many countries but are they really making a difference first let's look at the data. livestock farming has a terrible carbon footprint look at the one billion cattle worldwide. raising them produces vast clouds of greenhouse gases twice as much as is a myth and biplanes globally. and the industry also uses an immense amount of water around three thousand liters of h two o. go into the production of a single beefsteak enough to take a shower every day for three months. and raising animals for meat takes up a lot of space if we all stopped eating it tomorrow it would free up an estimated thirty million square kilometers. that's an area roughly the size of africa.

in all those ways meat really is terrible for the environment but it's also relative for example buying an avocado that's been shipped halfway around the world is worse for the environment than buying your steak from a local farmer not least due to the transport involved. so it really makes the most sense to ask where is my food coming from. the. local free range animals fed largely on grass hovan rich the soil with their manure . and that's good for the environment. so much of it's even claimed that free range cattle could actually help slow global warming. water consumption and every area of agriculture depends largely on the farming methods being employed in the arid regions of chile for example where many avocados are produced it takes around three hundred twenty liters of water to produce

a single fruit that's not exactly low impact agriculture. in other words to make a difference you should eat things that are in season and that come from your region so consume less meat and when you do eat it check its origins maybe it's time to come up with another category of environmental hero no less meat or terry on. even though meat is a prime source of protein for many people in the world for most of us eating less meat is undoubtedly a good thing it's not always so easy to give up what about the traditional sunday roast welfare up plenty of meatless options my colleague mr schmidt gave it a try and went in search of a big in holiday roast to serve up to his family. so the time. for many begins this is a brilliant invention it's the stuff of meat free christmas dinners and other festive roasts even if to the uninitiated it looks more like chewing gum.

christmas my family everyone knew who the vegetarian did because it tastes so good. so could a meat free alternative be just the ticket here in this spot three to begin roast is chiefly made up of gluten and we protein which best imitate the consistency of meat. good game. gluten forms this elastic structure. if you were to take raw bread dough and pull them apart like this you'd have the same effect as with our meat substitutes life before the. the company boss spent years working on the consistency to get it just right. he uses the same machines as the meat industry. and most of the operators here are butchers by trade the parallels with meat and meat production are everywhere. and.

that's because consumers are still used to meat. or they were used to meet. many of our regular customers haven't actually eaten meat in my years but i still often hear oh finally there's a meat free this or that i've waited for that for fifteen years that's how long they've been vegetarians but they still miss meat at times eating habits can be very deeply ingrained and they need. to begin roast saw first steam cooked and then smoked. a growing number of people around the world are opting for a begin life style with big in supermarkets restaurants boutiques and shoe shops. and now for the moment of truth the proof is in the pudding as they say so it's time to sample the reagan roast served with all the trimmings of a traditional meat roast it cost almost as much as the meat equivalent twenty euros

a kilo so how is it. it's not that bad. but the taste of meat is much better. this is a new experience for me. but i have to be honest it doesn't really taste of anything i'm definitely missing the flavor of meat is that the children don't even want to try it no matter what dad says. i want to give it a try no no not eat it there's no. work at all so dad has to polish off the plate him self next time it will be back to meet. i'm with male clothes kids have a good holiday roast is definitely not for me what do you think of the meat eating and the meat business by looking forward to hearing from you write to us at our website or twitter seizing.

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