I think even if you took profit out of this we’d still have this problem (might be more inclined to fix it though). We need to feed a lot of people. to do that efficiently high yield is needed causing the areas where we farm to become over farmed and the vegetables bred to be larger rather than nutrition focused.
Apparently normal plowing (the thing we’ve been doing for millenia) can damage the soil and reduce the nutrients going to the crops.
There is the elephant in the room; the majority of land dedicated to agriculture, that’s both land for grazing and land for growing food, is dedicated to raising and feeding animals. I think the number is around 80%, with the amount of land dedicated to growing food is somewhere around 45%?
We’re wasteful with vegetables and the like already, when we are wasteful with meat, we’re also throwing away all the input that went into the chain prior to it.
I don’t like to dictate what people should eat. I was born and raised a lacto-ovo vegetarian, and nowadays I’m almost entirely plant based. Switching over to a plant based diet was easy for me, there wasn’t much to switch out. I also in general loathe when people try to fuss over others food, I was on the receiving end of that all the time as a kid and it’s incredibly tiring.
That said, reducing our dependence on animal agriculture would be a boon to the world.
I think even if you took profit out of this we’d still have this problem (might be more inclined to fix it though). We need to feed a lot of people. to do that efficiently high yield is needed causing the areas where we farm to become over farmed and the vegetables bred to be larger rather than nutrition focused.
Apparently normal plowing (the thing we’ve been doing for millenia) can damage the soil and reduce the nutrients going to the crops.
There is the elephant in the room; the majority of land dedicated to agriculture, that’s both land for grazing and land for growing food, is dedicated to raising and feeding animals. I think the number is around 80%, with the amount of land dedicated to growing food is somewhere around 45%?
We’re wasteful with vegetables and the like already, when we are wasteful with meat, we’re also throwing away all the input that went into the chain prior to it.
I don’t like to dictate what people should eat. I was born and raised a lacto-ovo vegetarian, and nowadays I’m almost entirely plant based. Switching over to a plant based diet was easy for me, there wasn’t much to switch out. I also in general loathe when people try to fuss over others food, I was on the receiving end of that all the time as a kid and it’s incredibly tiring.
That said, reducing our dependence on animal agriculture would be a boon to the world.