The is is interesting. I thought the US would be much higher. Though doesn’t surprise me to see china so high up
Ah - that was why I was so confused. Canada, for example, limits the growth hormone in dairy cattle while the US does not.
Hormone-free milk is widely available in the US, it just costs a little more
“Bang on in the middle” of the legend, but not of the data. And below the middle of the legend, actually. The bottom half of the legend covers 0 - 50 while the top half covers 50 - 200+. The US is at 31 mg/kg as of 2020
I mean, we’re doing better than basically every other 1st world country, and those that are beating us don’t have big livestock industries.
Hope you had a great christmas
My leek+mushroom stuffed seitan roast was delicious, antibiotic-free, and cruelty-free. So tyvm, I did.
How did it taste? Do you have a recipe I can follow? I don’t know hoe far a vegan ingredients shopping run will go where I live though.
The gluten doesn’t have a very strong flavour on its own (it basically tastes like unflavoured bread) but it picks up whatever you season it with very well. The recipe I make goes for a typical poultry style seasoning with nooch and veggie broth. The stuffing is very umami with a little brightness from the lemon. It’s very yummy.
Here’s the recipe I use for the roast:
https://www.theppk.com/2011/11/seitan-roast-stuffed-with-shiitakes-and-leeks/
And I make the gravy from this recipe:
https://www.rabbitandwolves.com/vegan-crispy-black-pepper-cauliflower-steaks/
(Which incidentally is also a very good vegan holiday recipe in its own right!)
You might have trouble finding vital wheat gluten. I’d recommend checking either health food or bulk stores, or just buying it online. Everything else should be pretty easily accessible.
While you can make the recipe with the wash-the-flour method from regular flour, it’s already a bit of a challenging recipe, and you have to tweak quite a few things to get the proper wet:dry ratio, so I wouldn’t recommend it, especially for your first try.
I normally also do a side of mashed potatoes, and then some other veg like carrots+parsnips, or Brussels sprouts.
If you get a lot of specialty items (like faux cheeses and meats) it won’t go far. If you shop like normal but just skip the animal products it’ll almost surely be cheaper than regular groceries. You can make your own seitan very easily, there are many YouTube videos showing you how. It’s just a simple dough that is washed and kneaded to develop the gluten. You can also make your own tofu, but tofu is dirt cheap unless you get fancy stuff so I recommend just buying it.
I thought the US would be way up there given the intensive livestock industry there. But I guess we all underestimated the pig industry in China. They have multi-storey slaughter houses for pigs over there!
Really, why?
Like why not process rural, it has to be cheaper to just use rural land and go horizontal than vertical.
We used to do vertical in Chicago. You drive the livestock to the top floor, butcher them there, then use gravity to move them around.
Brazil certainly should be broken down by state, I imagine the USA as well.
My state in south Brazil has VERY strict controls on animals entering the state so we can use less antibiotics and other stuff.
