If you want to save the world,veganism isn't the answer.

[Mindful]

Intensively farmed meat and dairy are a blight, but so are fields of soya and maize. There is another way

If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer | Isabella Tree

 

[Mindful]

Veganism rocketed in the UK over the past couple of years – from an estimated half a million people in 2016 to more than 3.5 million – 5% of our population – today. Influential documentaries such as Cowspiracy and What the Health have thrown a spotlight on the intensive meat and dairy industry, exposing the impacts on animal and human health and the wider environment.


Our soils were almost dead. Now we have 19 types of worm, and 23 species of dung beetle in a single cowpat

But calls for us all to switch entirely to plant-based foods ignore one of the most powerful tools we have to mitigate these ills: grazing and browsing animals.

Rather than being seduced by exhortations to eat more products made from industrially grown soya, maize and grains, we should be encouraging sustainable forms of meat and dairy production based on traditional rotational systems, permanent pasture and conservation grazing. We should, at the very least, question the ethics of driving up demand for crops that require high inputs of fertiliser, fungicides, pesticides and herbicides, while demonising sustainable forms of livestock farming that can restore soils and biodiversity, and sequester carbon.

 

[Mindful]

 

[toobfreak]

Actually that looks pretty good! Think I'll make some!

Smashed Chickpea Salad Sandwich | Vanilla And Bean

 

[Likkmee]

The main problem with all "modern" farming is it's non rational.

Even the Bible went after it.
In the Bible, chapter 25 of the Book of Leviticus instructs the Israelite's to observe a "Sabbath of the Land". Every seventh year they would not till, prune or even control insects.

 

[Bleipriester]

I need a Burger. Now!

 

[Chuz Life]

My questions are. . .

1. Why does anyone seek to "save this world?"

and

2. From what?

And, once the world is finally "saved. . . ." (whatever that means)

What do they propose to do, to keep the world from having to be "saved" AGAIN?

 

[Mindful]

My questions are. . .

1. Why does anyone seek to "save this world?"

and

2. From what?

And, once the world is finally "saved. . . ." (whatever that means)

What do they propose to do, to keep the world from having to be "saved" AGAIN?

Because they have nothing else to do.

So create 'stuff'.