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In reply to the discussion: Does an image like this make you more likely to stop eating meat? [View all]NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)37. Um, no. Thats not my "solution"
I don't have a solution. Earth does. That solution is climate change. Billions upon billions will die of famine by the century's end.
Now, when that happens, I have a new approach (which is an old approach). Get out there and get your own damn meat if you want it, in such a way that your children will have a chance at that meat as well. Otherwise, get your own veggies and fruit without tilling up the land to do it. We need to figure out how to support what is left of us without destroying the earth to do it--if that takes killing off agriculture in its current form, Im good with that (there are some viable horticultural approaches we could always implement).
Either we will figure it out upon the reboot or we wont. We likely wont.
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No, clearing out vast forests to create agricultural lands you pour poison on kills animals
NoOneMan
Jan 2013
#23
So your solution is to eat even higher on the food chain, requiring ever more agriculture?
villager
Jan 2013
#27
Humans have been amazingly skilled and efficient hunters for tens of thousands of years
NoOneMan
Jan 2013
#62
That is really amazing considering how many doctors recommend that we not eat red meat.
MoonRiver
Jan 2013
#84
bacteria and viruses can bring down and kill the healthiest person on Earth
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2013
#98
With care it will finish out at 240 to 280 lbs market weight in about 6 months.
FarCenter
Jan 2013
#72