(April 19, 2012 at 7:39 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Perhaps a stranger thing to notice about vegetarian (or largely vegetarian) cultures is that they heavily exploit livestock to produce said diets, also a necessity brought about due to a lack of capital investment and infrastructure- IE they some po' folks in tha' world. Gotta have fertilizer. Those that don't heavily exploit petrochemical fertility. Bring on the suffering!
Those that do neither, well, those folks starve.
Here's a fun aside, specifically for those vegetarians among us who are going the the ethical argument bit. Why don't we eat more bugs? We could produce massive amounts of bugs without resorting to any sort of agriculture at all. In this way we could limit our reliance on harmful vegetable production and distasteful livestock production. Two birds one stone. Are we all ready to hop on-board?
oh you can't, killing bugs is unethical.. It would be better to bio-engineer humans to not need organic food at all!