Have you ever thought

of how your food gets to

your plate?

Created by: Terra Sancta Agriculture class

Call To Arms

How much the

cow consumes

- how much beef

you consume

The process of

how beef gets to

our plates

Why is it

important to keep

the beef

production

sustainable?

one cow consumes roughly 13-31

kilograms of grass per day.

That means in a year, the cow would

consume 4, 745 kilograms of grass.

That means that in an average lifespan of a cow (15 years) they eat a whopping

71,175kg of grass in their life. Where as,

most cows don’t live past the age of 7.

Roughly, 2.3 kilograms of beef is consumed by a person every month.

Which means, in a total year, the average person has consumed 27.27 kilograms of beef.

On the average, the human lifespan (77 years) consumes around 2,099 kilograms of beef in their life.

1. Each fully grown cow needs 5 acres of land

2. Making sure cows are healthy and sustaining their daily diet.

3. The cows are transferred to a

slaughterhouse where they get slaughtered and packaged and

ready for the beef markets.

There’s 29 million cattle in Australia. 9 million of this 29 million cattle are slaughtered per year for the human consumption.

Beef takes up 40% of Australia’s market.

We need land and if we don’t have land, we don’t have have farmers. And if we don’t have farmers, we cant produce cows. And if we cant produce cows, there wont be a sustainable future.

This is the reason why we need enough land to sustain the amount of cattle that gets produced.

Thank you !

Thank you for listening and we hope everyone watching takes something on board today

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