If you want to save a lot of money in buying farm produce such as meat then owning you own livestock farm is the way to go. Livestock farming is a great way to feeding your family with fresh un-processed meat because you can raise your own livestock for meat production. And since these livestock are yours you can feed them with only healthy feed to make sure they produce quality products.

Two types of livestock that can easily be raised by anyone are pigs and rabbits. Both these animals don’t require a lot of land to raise and their meat taste good and is in high demand.

How to Raise Healthy Pigs

Pigs can be raised in two ways, the commercial way or organic (traditional) way. Since a lot of people are now turning to eating organic foods most farmers are now raising their livestock the organic way. Organic meat is healthier than commercially produced meat which is why people like it. It also tastes a lot better.

When raising pigs the organic way you simple allow them to graze in pastures and as a process they feed on the green grass, plants and herbs if they are available. The sun helps the pigs in giving the livestock natural ventilation and at the same time they exercise as they are grazing around.

You farm yard should also have a variety of plants for your pigs to feed on. Plants like guava leaves and lemon grass are good for animal’s digestive system and also add flavor to the meat. Other organic diets to give your pigs are roasted soybeans, buckwheat, flax seed and organic corn.

Pigs that are raised the organic way don’t consume antibiotics and animal products that cause diseases both to the livestock and humans.

How to Raise Healthy Rabbits

Rabbits are quiet different from pigs, they are adorable fluffy creatures and a lot of people keep as pets. Rabbit also require more attention than pigs so if you have the heart to raising bunnies then you won’t have a problem in keeping these animals.

For a rabbit to grow healthy requires you to feed them healthy food. The right food to give your bunny is a mixture fruits, vegetable and hay. Young bunnies can be given alfalfa hay while older ones can be given timothy hay.

For snacks you can mix carrots, broccoli and spinach. Don’t forget to give your rabbits enough clean water everyday to help them digest the food and not to be dehydrated.

The modern diet that relies heavily on meat and animal products is both unhealthy and wasteful of the earth’s resources. By becoming a vegetarian you can contribute to the preservation of scarce resources and enjoy a healthier diet.

Meat and dairy production is a large scale industry that consumes vast amounts of grain and soy beans. Great tracts of forest have been cut down to provide grazing land for cattle contributing to the problem of global warming.

This resource hungry industry provides more food for the rich world than ever before. Yet many people go hungry while we in the rich industrialized world suffer from a whole range of diseases that are caused by eating too much meat and animal fat.

An estimated 800 million people live in the shadow of hunger. World hunger is increasing at a rate of 4 million a year.

If all the farm produce that is used to feed animals was used to feed people a vegetarian diet then no one in the world would need to be hungry. It takes 7.5 pounds of animal feed to produce 1 pound an pork and 5 pounds to produce 1 pound of chicken.

The American pork industry consumed 1.08 billion bushels of corn in 2004 and 265 million bushels of soybeans. This creates competition between humans and animals.

When we factor in the use of fossil fuels in the livestock industry for heating, lighting and transportation then the modern meat based diet begins to look totally unsustainable.

It takes one sixth of an acre of land to produce enough food for a vegan but more than three acres to feed a meat eater.

The high price of meat has encouraged many farmers in poor countries to shift away from their traditional crops that provided a largely vegetarian diet. They are increasingly producing livestock that they can sell to richer countries. Two-thirds of the grain that is exported from America goes to feed livestock.

Fishing does not use up grain. But it does not really provide a sustainable alternative to meat. Most of the world’s major fisheries are in decline because of over fishing.

Fish farming is as costly in terms of feed as other forms of livestock farming. It takes 5 pounds of feed to produce a pound of fish.

The only real alternative to this waste of resources is for vegetarianism to become the diet of more people. A vegetarian is taking a stand against the wasteful use of resources.