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We could immediately reduce the negative impacts of farming by 75%, just by switching to plant based diets. https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets https://o
by myshpa 3y ago
We could immediately reduce the negative impacts of farming by 75%, just by switching to plant based diets.
https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
The industrial farming practices / propaganda making us reliant on overuse of poisons in our food chains makes us sick, is poisoing/destroying nature, destroying soil microbiomes, biodiversity, waters and air.
We have to find ways to farm without poisons, and teach farmers to use those methods - it won't be easy and it won't change with one law and it will take maybe decades, but the methods exists, it's possible and should be done.
- Balero 3y agoThe replacements for some of those poisons (large amounts of artificial fertilisers) are animal products. In a world without artificial fertiliser you need to have animals to produce fertiliser. The optimal for this would still be much less animal farming, and a massive shift in how and where it is done. But removing all animal products would be counter productive. (Perhaps this is what you meant by plant based though).
- myshpa 3y ago> large amounts of artificial fertilisers Sure, but also pesti/herbicides. > without artificial fertiliser you need to have animals to produce fertiliser Or compost / nitrogen fixing / companion plants. > But removing all animal products would be counter productive There are people practicing it for decades pretty well without animal inputs. Syntropic agriculture (Ernst Götsch), natural farming (Masanobu Fukuoka), veganic farming, permaculture, hydroponics, animal-free biodynamic farming, etc. It's not a necessity.