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Industrial agriculture is depleting the soil, abusing animals, polluting our water and significantly contributing to planet-destroying climate change. How about
by adriand 5y ago
Industrial agriculture is depleting the soil, abusing animals, polluting our water and significantly contributing to planet-destroying climate change. How about we start tackling the problem by ending subsidies and requiring meat producers to pay for what are currently treated as externalities. If meat eaters had to pay the real cost of their food, I suspect overall consumption would decrease far more than any campaign for behavioural changes.
- NicoJuicy 5y agoThe cause is overpopulation. Not agriculture. Less people, less problems. More people, more problems. Just look at the world population since 1950 The current solution is more efficient agriculture ( ofc ) or finding better and viable alternatives Forcing way more expensive meat is not a good option. Too many jobs will be lost at once and people will view it as an attack on their freedom. Nobody will want to make that decision and i don't think it's realistic to execute. I'd like some research on this too. Since I remember young vegans from school to be unhealthy looking and needing vitamin supplements. Even China added eggs and other things to the school diet, since they wanted to catch up on height with japanese people. They had positive effects within 1 generation. Just 1 example: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/vegetarian-kindergarten-china-ordered-meat-032237863.html https://sg.news.yahoo.com/vegetarian-kindergarten-china-orde... I'll let my kids eat meat and they can decide what they want when they are full-grown. Ps. I've met countless of vegans being offended by these claims/observations, while they couldn't find any proof against it. Joy... I invite you to debunk it. Please... Alter my POV with some evidence.
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