Re:Can We Grow More Food on Less Land?
by kieranmaine on Friday December 07, 2018 @03:17PM
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Would you eat more chicken instead of beef though? Is there a certain meat you couldn't do without and if so why? I'm not against anyone eating meat (although as an ethical - and hypocritical milk drinking vegetarian - I'd like to see animal suffering reduced) just interested in what meat eaters love about meat.
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Re:Can We Grow More Food on Less Land?
by travisoneill1 on Friday December 07, 2018 @03:47PM
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I don't see stacking as many people as possible on Earth as a worthy goal and therefore I am not interested in changing my behavior for the purpose of achieving it.
Your animal suffering point has merit. But what the article is talking about is simply growing enough food to feed more people, so that's what I am addressing. However, I think that this is just another symptom of the same thing. Factory farming is only necessary if we need to feed multiple billions.
Re:Can We Grow More Food on Less Land?
by kieranmaine on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:37PM
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I agree that we should stop over population, but that involves developing and enriching countries to lower the birth rate. As countries get richer they eat more meat, so the problem may still remain even if the population does decline.
Chicken and beef have significantly different tastes, textures, and preparation options. They're substitute goods in the same was as a bicycle and a scooter; they provide the same kind of utility, but one may be preferred over the other for reasons that are hard to enumerate and don't really address the utility.