RE: About vegans
January 31, 2019 at 5:41 pm
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2019 at 6:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Not certifying Jades "not enough land" (not sure that jade was, either, really)...but...the notion that livestock are fed grain that could be fed to humans, or that this grain is grown on land that could be used to grow things to feed humans...both wrong for a variety of reasons.
You're not going to see a mixed veg operation get plowed under for feed grain, or a cattle ranch turn into a strawberry farm.
It is true that if we wanted to grow more veggies to replace livestock that we'd need to develop more land, the land we grow the livestock and the grain for the livestock on isn't up to the task as is. We need to do that anyway, really. We'd also need yet more oil and yet more water, as vegetables simply aren't going to be produced in an arid patch of dust, intermittently rainfed. All of this excludes more novel ways of increasing our production (and novel ways of spurring alternative development and production), just a comment on conventional ag.
You're not going to see a mixed veg operation get plowed under for feed grain, or a cattle ranch turn into a strawberry farm.
It is true that if we wanted to grow more veggies to replace livestock that we'd need to develop more land, the land we grow the livestock and the grain for the livestock on isn't up to the task as is. We need to do that anyway, really. We'd also need yet more oil and yet more water, as vegetables simply aren't going to be produced in an arid patch of dust, intermittently rainfed. All of this excludes more novel ways of increasing our production (and novel ways of spurring alternative development and production), just a comment on conventional ag.
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