Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is
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Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is
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Re: Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is
#2"Ditching meat isn't the answer", "Writing meat off completely is taking the easy way out", by someone who runs "a small, family-operated pig farm", and writes about how "beneficial and rewarding" sustainable farming can be. I'm not sure if they notice they make their living killing pigs.
Another point: in the sentence
>Commercial meat production got to be the monster it is because corporate interests monopolized the market and began seeing animal life as a commodity — something to be produced and traded at the lowest cost possible, at the expense of the environment, animal welfare and working conditions for farmhands.
it seemed very odd—grotesque, even—to include "working conditions for farmhands" in the 3 main costs of seeing animals as just commodities, in a purportedly enlightened article. And animal welfare seems to come a distant second to the effect on the environment—by which I think they mean, having horrible factory farms everywhere etc.
Re: Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is
#3 "Writing meat off completely is taking the easy way out."
Re: Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is
#4uhhh... yeah let's go with the easy way out?
Re: Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is
#5Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Hunting vegans is. FTFY
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#6"Writing meat off completely is taking the easy way out." Why not take the easy way out?
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Re: Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is
#7I don't like this fact: but it seems there's nothing more nutritious for many human geno/phenotypes than meat IMO.
It seems the world is waking up to this. And as such, farming is waking up to using more sustainable, health promoting methods (e.g. ditching factory farming).
The folks at beyond-meat & various institutions will tell you it's 'unhealthy', but I've never been healthier than when I'm eating mostly meat.
Re: Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is
#8"Writing meat off completely is taking the easy way out." Why not take the easy way out?
Right? This isn’t 12th grade gym class, it’s an impending global catastrophe.
Re: Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is
#9The artificial meat market still hasn't been able to address the adverse health effects of isoflavones, and other adverse health effects of phytoestrogens. I'm not referring exclusively to endocrine disruption[5]. There's lots of sources showing negative effects on the brain[1][2][3][4]. These 'impossible meats' are not a good solution.
I've heard all of the "eat the bugs" rhetoric regarding addressing the protein needs of a growing third world. Why not address the issues of unsustainable overpopulation first?
[1]http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/phytochemicals/soyiso/...
[2]http://rense.com/general3/soy.htm
[3]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074428
Re: Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is
#10Maybe reducing meat consumption is a good middle ground? Red meat especially seems to have known health risks but even ignoring that the inhumane raising of animals for mass automated slaughter necessitated by huge meat consumption is very much worth addressing as is the climate impact.
I really cannot wait to see lab grown meat or plant based meat become credible alternatives - I am not holding my breath but I am moderately optimistic for a breakthrough.