Re:Bills seek end to farm animal abuse videos
by belorn on Monday March 18, 2013 @07:49AM
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If we suddenly stopped eating meat, we would put several species into extinction. Maybe that would be an acceptable loss, but letting several species go extinct to "prove" how wrong we humans are would not be the way I would promote ecological improvement.
Better to deal with the issues where they are. Over fishing should be dealt with. Countries are just now realizing that the sea doesnt stop at the border. If they could put so much money and effort into ACTA/SOPA, then maybe they could put some energy into fixing this? If US can put countries in a naughty list because some country didn't jump and enforce to US copyright law, maybe EU could put countries on a naughty list because they don't follow follow fishing rules.
We don't eat tend lake fish, we eat fish from the sea. Fisheries stocks are collapsing from over fishing.
Farming, and farming of animals, has caused extensive ecological damage. Large areas of rain-forest have been cut to provide space for grazing animals; desertification occurs when cattle over-graze areas; some species are lost because land is given to cattle; animal waste in large enough quantities is toxic pollution and some management systems just intensify the problem (eg, Holland had a slurry lake for years); some modern farm animals are over-bred genetic freaks and they wouldn't survive without farmers.
Really, if humans suddenly stopped eating meat and fish over night the environment would probably be better, not worse.