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Short of suicide, is there a way to reduce the footprint caused by food consumption lower than from a vegan diet? It seems to me that eating meet always will co
by ajmurmann 4y ago
Short of suicide, is there a way to reduce the footprint caused by food consumption lower than from a vegan diet? It seems to me that eating meet always will consume more land and other resources, no?
- photochemsyn 4y agoWell, 'vegan' is a broad concept. Clearly there are certain plants which are hard to grow and which produce minimal foodstuffs per acre, strawberries and almonds probably fall into that category (comparable to dairy, certainly) and in grassland ecosystems, it might be less of a footprint to live off meat and milk from herded animals rather than trying to implement crop agriculture. Reindeer herders in Siberia, for example, are probably more in tune with their environment than any vegan cultivator in that zone could be.
- ajmurmann 4y agoI'm not sure what to make of the grassland angle. It works well for the reindeer scenario, given the reindeer have always been with that ecosystem. However, how well does that scale to production levels we need to support 8 billion people? I also wonder how well that translates to other areas. I understand we've pretty much destroyed the American prairies. Not sure about the details of that though.