UK-based retail giant Tesco has revealed that it will be “recycling all meat waste into heat and electricity”.
According to the company, it current produces over 5,000 tons of meat waste annually, which it intends to convert into an amount of energy sufficient to power more than 600 homes per year.
The group Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (Viva) has called attention to the plan, in an attempt to raise consumer awareness of a practice that it considers vile. Viva has said to Tesco that turning animals into energy used to power their homes would be sure to horrify many of their customers.
Tesco continues to try to be as green as possible, launching such efforts diverting 100% of its UK-produced waste from landfill and now this more controversial meat-to-energy scheme. Viva has asserted that one of the reasons that Tesco stores are producing 5,000 tons of meat waste annually is due to over-ordering meats.
A statement issued by Viva said in part: “To turn this wasted meat into power might seem like a good idea at first, but you have to ask yourself why is so much left over and why are so many animals dying to provide this excess? Surely killing fewer animals in the first place should be the aim.”
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