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Originally Posted by NoOne
Then there is the fact that the vast majority of the planet is completely unsuitable for intensive, plant-based agriculture and can only be utilised through grazing, hunting or fishing, and you have a problem if you consign yourself to eating plants and fruits only. Luckily, in our globalised factory-farm Western economy people can survive on a Vegan diet, sometimes for years on end. If that is their wish, fair play to them, I just don’t think it could exist anywhere outside this highly urbanised, metropolitan bubble.
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It's not a bubble.. modern civilization and agriculture is the norm for the overwhelming majority of humans. Within that context it is more sustainable and animal friendly to drastically reduce dependence upon animal food. That is not a ''bubble''.. In fact, this idea that you can live on a hunter-gatherer lifestyle in today's world, with much diminished wildlife habitat thanks to the meat industry, makes you part of a bubble and a highly specialized minority of people. If billions of people did that there'd be nothing left. Hunter-gatherer societies didn't have billions of people. The human population was small.
Much of nature is needlessly destroyed so people can eat their beef, pork, and chicken. Land that could be simply left alone if we ate differently..
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