RE: About vegans
April 2, 2020 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2020 at 2:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
From a sustainability standpoint, it would be best to produce any of our food, of any kind, in a sustainable way.
The bit about not eating meat or reducing consumption by 90% is informed by some other ideological principle you hold - not sustainability. FWIW, there's currently no model for regenerative agriculture that doesn't require livestock of some kind. This is down to the fact that our choices are severely limited between two fundamental options when it comes to production. Industrial chemistry or animals. No free lunch.
Let;s consider a world where beef was produced through exclusively regenerative methods, and that there was less of it. People would still eat as much of it as they want and could afford - and there's no reason from sustainability not to do so. It would be the latter that effected consumption. In that world the producer is getting more money for his product - so that's a win..and the cows are healthier and happier, so that's a win, and climate change is being addressed, so that's a win, and the routine use of faltering antibiotics has been eliminated, so that's a win.....
....but -some- consumers might not be able to afford all the steak they want.
Most of us are already in that position.
The bit about not eating meat or reducing consumption by 90% is informed by some other ideological principle you hold - not sustainability. FWIW, there's currently no model for regenerative agriculture that doesn't require livestock of some kind. This is down to the fact that our choices are severely limited between two fundamental options when it comes to production. Industrial chemistry or animals. No free lunch.
Let;s consider a world where beef was produced through exclusively regenerative methods, and that there was less of it. People would still eat as much of it as they want and could afford - and there's no reason from sustainability not to do so. It would be the latter that effected consumption. In that world the producer is getting more money for his product - so that's a win..and the cows are healthier and happier, so that's a win, and climate change is being addressed, so that's a win, and the routine use of faltering antibiotics has been eliminated, so that's a win.....
....but -some- consumers might not be able to afford all the steak they want.
Most of us are already in that position.
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