What does eating low on the food chain mean to you?!
Answers: Have you seen the movie Fast Food Nation?
I have not seen the movie. However, I think eating low on the food chain has a variety of intepretations for different people. For me, it is fish, seafood, poultry and lower.
Eating the most basic foods, which are plant-based.
Essentially the basic concept is that the higher on the food chain you eat, the less efficient it is. That is, if you eat a snake, it will have had to eat a certain number of mice to get as big as it is, and those mice will have to have eaten a certain amount of plants to get as big as they are, ultimately it creates a bigger ecological footprint than if you just ate the plants, and the more chains there are, the impact is exponentially greater. so if you want to leave a small ecological impact you wouldnt eat meat and when you do, you wouldnt eat predators.
I had another answer in mind, but "Wire and String" really is a good answer and I can see what an impact that would have. I agree with him. Personally, I eat seafood and poultry as a flexitarian vegetarian.