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  • beaubbe@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldIf it's acceptable...
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    10 months ago

    Could we even all survive without eating animals; all mankind?

    Not all countries can produce plant food year round, or have access to high protein source of food that is not meat. I live in canada and more than half the year, all fruits and vegetables come from california, spain, and so on. There is no local vegetarian food. But, the butcher still has local meat available.

    I am actually curious; is it even feasible to feed everyone if we stop meat production? What would be the impact on the environment to import boatloads of food from far away instead of sourcing local food year round?


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    10 months ago

    “Exploiting” animals as in, animal cruelty, I think everyone agrees is bad. But I don’t feel like raising sheeps for wool or cows for milk is inherently wrong depending on the way it is done. Even eating animals, I would not call that exploitation. Plenty animals eat each other in nature. Is the wolf exploiting the sheep when it eats it?

    What about a fish then? Or even insects? We use insects for plenty of things as well, like food dyes. Are we exploiting them? Insects are animal as well. What about a fish?






  • Cows do not create carbon. They turn it into methane which is a worse form of carbon.

    The same way you can turn carbon in biomass to “lock” it from the atmosphere, you can turn it in worse forms of gas that cause even more heating like methane. The methane will turn back in CO2 form once it burns or degrade naturally (a dozen years or so) but while it is under methane form, it will make it worse, accelerating the heating effects. But even stopping all methane emissions is only a temporary solution as carbon from pool 2 keeps moving in pool 1. It may give us more time before reaching the same level of greenhouse effect but we will reach it anyway.