Re: Apocalypse Cow -How meat killed the planet
Some great posts from Solasch and Bakerman, I tend to lean on the side of Bakerman when it comes to a variable diet. I believe that no food should be out of bounds when it comes to supplying valuable vitamins, minerals and other essentials to our bodies.
I worry about Vegans who deny things like eggs, cheese, fish and other seafoods, not to mention the value of any kind of meat, the human diet has been successful for thousands of years.
The world is not overpopulated! Sure, there are areas where there is a conglomeration of humans, but a greater part of the world is uninhabited.
Consider that 71% of the surface of the earth is water 27% of the land is unsuitable for human existence (Mountains, Jungle and forests) Leaving just 2% that is used for habitat and food production, how could we be overpopulated? How could we possibly have any effect on the climate when we occupy less than 2% of the surface of the world?
In the 1950's when I was a boy, putting food on the table was the most important thing most families had to worry about. Food was expensive and took a large percentage of weekly earnings. So most families in my neck of the woods either had allotments or part of their gardens set aside for growing crops to supplement their supply of good food.
These days the importance and cost of food falls a long way behind smartphones, TV's, and other entertainment items. I'm not criticising, just pointing out how our priorities have changed. Because food can be obtained cheaply and in great quantity and wages are many times higher than in the fifties, boxed sets and the internet are a lot more exciting that digging in a row of spuds, and now we can be fussy eaters.
Everything most of us know (or think we know) about the state of the world comes from the media. Not a problem in the 50's most of the news was local, and we cared about our community, not about things we have no control over. But with our insatiable appetite for information we can't get enough, not thinking for one moment that we are being manipulated and lied to. Not all of the time, but it's getting increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction, fake news from genuine news, and it will only get worse.