Beyond Meat,Hampton Creek and Impossible Foods, among others, are developing what they say are environmentally-preferable alternatives to resource-intensive animal products.
Such interventions will also help to include environmental costs in the price of resource-intensive food products and would therefore further influence individual choices.
The availability of biomass also plays a pivotal role in consumption patterns and trade flows: In Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, the level of meat consumption per capita is comparable to the Western Industrial countries while the region simultaneously remains a major exporter of biomass, in particular crops and resource-intensive livestock products (Fig. 2e).
Recent studies on upstream resource requirements embodied in traded products also suggest that the apparent stabilization of resource use may be the result of offshoring resource intensive production (Muñoz et al., 2009; Bruckner et al., 2012; Wiedmann et al., 2013).
Since these figures are from 2009, the d i /x i indicator in exports of primary products and some natural resource-intensive manufactures may have been significantly influenced by the high price of these products at that time.
Waste is the most visible by-product of a resource-intensive, consumer-based economic lifestyle.
"Solid waste is the most visible and pernicious by-product of a resource-intensive, consumer-based economic lifestyle".
"More people are eating resource-intensive 'Western' diets rich in meat and dairy products," explains The Feeding of the Nine Billion, a report from the British policy institute Chatham House.
While labor prices fell -- as well as prices of manufactured products, according to their labor intensiveness -- prices rose for natural resource-intensive goods, following an increase in demand coming from economically-growing low-income areas.
Meat and dairy production is highly resource-intensive and inefficient.
