RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
April 17, 2012 at 5:24 pm
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2012 at 5:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
LOL, when it comes to ag all facts are hard to deal with. This addresses what? Ag is not a place for hardline idealism, people need to eat, regardless of what they may believe about morality or ethics, it is a long list of concessions along the lines of practicality.
Let me help you. Yes, more acreage would have to be converted for a full vegetarian diet, this is due to suitability of land.
No, livestock production is not "less economic" than vegetable production, again, due to suitability of land (and just icing on the cake, suitability of crops for human consumption). We actually engage in it only when it is "more economic", why you think otherwise is beyond me... Do you think that livestock producers are in the business of losing money?
Greenhouse gases are symptomatic of/required by life, not just this or that bit of life, all life. In fact they facilitate life, without them we're fucked, entirely (it's awfully cold out there in space).
Let me help you. Yes, more acreage would have to be converted for a full vegetarian diet, this is due to suitability of land.
No, livestock production is not "less economic" than vegetable production, again, due to suitability of land (and just icing on the cake, suitability of crops for human consumption). We actually engage in it only when it is "more economic", why you think otherwise is beyond me... Do you think that livestock producers are in the business of losing money?
Greenhouse gases are symptomatic of/required by life, not just this or that bit of life, all life. In fact they facilitate life, without them we're fucked, entirely (it's awfully cold out there in space).
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