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The Comforting Lie of "Climate-Friendly Meat" (newrepublic.com)

submitted 10 months ago by usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to c/green@lemmy.ml

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[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Systems are much more sustainable without animals. Its not complex science.

If we want more people to be able to live sustainably off the land, then we should ban animal ag.

Fertilization is easily achieved with growing green manure. Organic materials composted. All without the ecological devastation caused by animal ag

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You want to pay a visit to where I live?

Animals - mostly sheep and goats - have been used for millennia to manage vegetation. The moment it was considered an outdated practice, some fifty years back, better resolved by use of machinery, we started having wild fires, due to having unmanaged highly combustible vegetation, that otherwise was consumed by the animals.

Let's avoid black or white purism. Animals have played a fundamental role in our civilization. Let's eliminate the excessive practices and strive for well balanced practices.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah and animals ag has caused many of those areas to turn into deserts. You're right we've been doing it tens of thousands if years, and look at where we are now.

I'm not aguing that we kill all wild animals. Bison and deer are fine (sheep and goats are chicken and cows are not). I'm arguing that we need to stop all human-bred animals that are unnatural species and causing immense damage to the planet.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

unnatural species

What?

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Humans bred lots of species into existence. We inbred to optimize economic output, and many of them suffer greatly because of it

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 0 points 10 months ago

Can you expand on that, please? Because you are making less and less sense.