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Meat ag is incredibly dangerous and pollution-causing. 1. Pandemic evolution by cramming zillions of animals in unsanitary conditions, with humans interspersed
by duelingjello 7y ago
Meat ag is incredibly dangerous and pollution-causing.
1. Pandemic evolution by cramming zillions of animals in unsanitary conditions, with humans interspersed attempting to clear out rivers of poop and pee.
2. Antibiotic resistance by overusing antibiotics to promote growth while compelling accelerated evolution of microbes that can’t be treated with as many classes of antibiotics.
3. Inefficient allocation of input and supporting resources: diesel fuel, water, fertilizer, phosphorous and crops.
4. Pollution of air, water and soil... pig farms especially necessitate lakes of shit that are sprayed into the air, polluting large areas of air, waiter and land. Agriculture runoff as well.
5. Climate change. Net CO2 output of meat ag is nearly that of Portland cement (clinker) production.
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99. Animal cruelty... which doesn’t persuade many people because self-interested cognitive dissonance overcomes most people’s limits of self-control and rational thought. (Upton Sinclair-like effect.)
- geddy 7y agoThis is exactly the point I tried to make below when people kept claiming that E. coli was a plant problem and not a plant problem. But as you mentioned, it's far more convenient to talk about the dreaded potato blight and ignore the fact that animal agriculture is the biggest contributor to species extinction (through clearing of land for growing of crops to feed back to animals).