LivDiv wrote:I think food marketing has a greater effect on our food choices than most would be happy to admit or even realise.
The Daddy wrote:I don’t think meat is the only problem.
dynamiteReady wrote:Then how's that remedied? That's the problem. It's far more intractable than the likes of smoking. For example, even with all the controls put in place to pacify the tobacco industry, it appears to be growing (doubling down in markets that are resistant to anti - tobacco sentiment... i.e. China). I've been naive to the meat industry... It's not like I've had the most poignant epiphany or anything, but I've only just come to realise just how ignorant it is to eat in the fashion that the majority of us omnivores do. On many levels, what we're doing is pretty fucked up. I think the animal compassion component alone, for me, is an adequate reason to change... I mean, I know many of you dudes are brazen atheists, but religion did make clear from the start how wrong it is to not respect the creatures we prey on... But then, say we change overnight, and address the amount of land we provide for rearing domesticated animals... Immediately, that will fuck with the quantity of land available for growing veg, you'd also have to consider how you control the population of those animals, and food prices will increase, while stock will decrease (for all foods, right?)... I'm putting aside my thoughts on classic arguments over AGW here, but I think many of the 97% of scientists (or whatever that figure was), agree that agricultural economics is a far bigger problem than the oil industry... But where the fuck would you start? Rationing?
Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis.
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