Quote:Absolute bullshit, and now I feel like I've wasted my time. You are a zealot, I don't have time for this sort of shit when it comes to ag. You do not wish to kill animals, and that is completely your business, but from here on out lets drop the pretense of rational arguments, "necessary" or "unnecessary" suffering, ecological, environmental, or human impact. You are only interested in preserving your own opinions of the matter. All else is rationalization after the fact.
Of course! Why didn't I see this sooner? You are right and the United Nations and many others are wrong! You fail to provide any 'meat on the bone' to your arguments. You make statements to suit your self-interest in meat eating. Meat production is hugely damaging to the planet and there is NO alternative but to give it up. You suggest the humane treatment of animals in a less harsh environment than the factory farm but this is not tennable.
Grass-grazing cows emit considerably more methane than grain-fed cows. Pastured organic chickens have a 20 percent greater impact on global warming. It requires 2 to 20 acres to raise a cow on grass. If you raised all the cows in the United States on grass, all 100 million of them, cattle would require, using the figure of 10 acres per cow, almost half of your country’s land (and this figure excludes space needed for pastured chicken and pigs). A tract of land just larger than France has been carved out of the Brazilian rain forest and turned over to grazing cattle. Nothing about this is sustainable.
I think you believe in what you are saying but happily my moral choices coincide and are supported by reputable scientists.
A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, is what the UN are saying.
As the global population surges towards a predicted 9.1 billion people by 2050, western tastes for diets rich in meat and dairy products are unsustainable, according to the report from United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) international panel of sustainable resource management.
It says: "Impacts from agriculture are expected to increase substantially due to population growth increasing consumption of animal products. Unlike fossil fuels, it is difficult to look for alternatives: people have to eat. A substantial reduction of impacts would only be possible with a substantial worldwide diet change, away from animal products."
Professor Edgar Hertwich, the lead author of the report, said: "Animal products cause more damage than [producing] construction minerals such as sand or cement, plastics or metals. Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels."
