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But why not? Maybe just try a week without meat!
Meat free week is more than doable. Day free of dairy.... highly unlikely for myself
But why not? Maybe just try a week without meat!
I was just about to post that.
A typical evening meal in our omnivorous house too! I also do a mean Masala Dosa and Sambhar! Meera Sodha is my Guru. But I like my Dosa cooked in Ghee.
Now interestingly, the Ethical Vegan who has won the first part of his case, says that he chooses to walk rather that take the bus because the bus might kill insects is but one step from a Jain diet The Jain cuisine is completely vegetarian and also excludes underground vegetables such as potato, garlic, onion etc, to prevent injuring small insects and microorganisms; and also to prevent the entire plant getting uprooted and killed (Wiki)
Ie his ethical stance seems self inconsistent in comparison.
If a million people become vegan tomorrow, it wouldn't hardly effect the industrial farming of animals. You'd need super big numbers world wide which will never happen. If it did happen all those fields will become concrete jungles of housing anyway in time. If people can stop eating meat & dairy then maybe they can stop using fossil fuels too.Not really each to his own, is it? Industrial fishing and meat production affects everybody negatively, not just the consumer. “Like” sounds a bit selfish as a justification.
It would for two reasons. The first is that millions fewer animals would be processed through what are still inappropriately called ‘farms.’ That may be a drop in the ocean, but it still matters. The second is that old argument about normalising behaviours and attitudes. While Vegans are 1% they are cranks and oddballs. When they are 5% they are a business opportunity. Go beyond that and it is no longer a ‘lifestyle choice’ and becomes completely mundane.If a million people become vegan tomorrow, it wouldn't hardly effect the industrial farming of animals.
Industrial meat production doesn’t involve much in the way of fields unless you are going to include vast areas of bulldozed rainforest in the definition. I understand the argument that livestock farming doesn’t have to be environmentally damaging and cruel, but the fact is that as currently carried out, globally it mostly is.If it did happen all those fields will become concrete jungles of housing anyway in time.
Yes, they can. Hard to cut it out completely but easy enough to choose to reduce, and becoming easier.If people can stop eating meat & dairy then maybe they can stop using fossil fuels too.
Trees. You know, like what historically grew on Britain's hillsides before we cut them all down, and which would return if we were to stop heather burns, sheep overgrazing and grouse shoots.Some land is unsuitable for growing anything other than animals. What else can you grow on the moors? Or steep hillsides. And grass reduces soil erosion and possibly reverse it.
"Grazed land is terrible for soil erosion and water retention"?Trees. You know, like what historically grew on Britain's hillsides before we cut them all down, and which would return if we were to stop heather burns, sheep overgrazing and grouse shoots.
Grazed land is terrible for soil erosion and water retention.