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The efficiency argument doesn't cut it on its own though. You wouldn't
take a moral stance against live theatre because of how much more
efficient movies are.
I think it's really important to have a sense of the true cost of eating
meat, and unconscionable that we're not paying it. The government
subsidies are the first thing that has to go!
--- \/ FROM Joshua J Estelle AT 07.01.25 18:34 (Yesterday) \/ ---
>> The text of this article is about how mass farming of meat is bad for the
>> environment, not that eating meat is bad for the environment. If eating
>> meat alone was bad for the environment, then eradicating all carnivores
>> would solve our global warming problem, no?
>
> It is true that locally raised meet likely has negligible negative impact and
> that the real problem is mass farming of meat, but I think even very
> environmentally conscious meat eaters are unlikely to always eat "good" meat.
>
>> To change the topic slightly, your article reminded me of a very
>> interesting essay by Jared Diamond (the "Guns, Germs, and Steel" guy)
>> claiming that farming was the worst mistake humanity ever made:
>
> While farming may not also be perfect, it is by far the lesser evil to eating
> meat. Consider we have to feed 10 people for 1 year. Then think about how
> much land and resources you would need to feed them a meat eating diet. Each
> animal they eat will need a tremendous amount of resources to raise that
> animal to be eaten. Then consider if those 10 people were vegetarians. The
> amount of land and resources needed to feed them would be drastically
> smaller.
>
> It's just more efficient to be vegetarian.
>
> I think I just discovered my short answer to when people ask me why I'm
> vegetarian, "It's just more efficient."
>
> Best,
> Josh
>
>
>
>
>
>> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Robert Felty wrote:
>>
>>> Really great article about how eating meat is bad for the environment.
>>> Thanks to Clare for pointing it out to me.
>>> You can read it at:
>>> http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0120-20.htm
>
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