I don't disbelieve you at all, but you know how the world works....
Well I know how the current food system generally disfunctions, and works against health, environment and overall well-being yes for sure.
That doesn't mean we can't transition intelligently towards much better.
In an industrialised system it is fairly obvious that growing soya then feeding it to cattle is going to be less efficient than just eating the soya, so you could feed a lot more people by growing plant-based foods with the same amount of land.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-efficiency-of-meat-and-dairy-production
But that doesn't argue for 'banning meat' even if 'banning' it were possible.
Who would police this ban anyway ??
Yes transitioning away from industrialised animal raising for sure..
The general level of awareness and understanding of how agriculture and the food system works (and also doesn't) is pretty low.
The complexity of interactions between soil type, aspect, climate, ecosystems below ground and above - including the animals and humans within the system working eating and excreting is immense - and needs to be far better recognised.
Rather than making 'broad brush' simplistic pronouncements such as 'ban meat'.
Saying it takes less land to grow X amount of say a protein crop such as soya than to pasture raise a lamb to generate a similar amount of protein - so therefore we should 'ban meat' completely discounts the fact that there are many environments where you can raise one or the other, but not both.
But at the same time there are other environments where doing both alongside each other as part of a mixed system where for example sheep graze off the aftermath of a crop and boost the subsequent fertility and depth of soil means that in that scenario the sum of the total becomes greater than the sum of the parts because of the interaction of natural ecological systems.
Continuous arable (growing only plant foods) with no grazing animal or ley (grassland) breaks leads to soil erosion (carbon loss) and depleted fertility..
In addition to using vast quantities of fossil fuel inputs to substitute for natural nutrient recycling.
Remember the US dust bowls ?? Where removing the natural herbivore grazers (bison) and stripping the natural fertility built up by extracting successive arable crops led to the loss of millions of tonnes of topsoil.
- Industrialised agriculture still does that today and not only in pursuit of growing feed crops for animals.
Food production if it is to be sustainable has to take in to account all the localised ecosystem elements, and the health and wellbeing of the humans eating and living there too.
Presently we also have massive amounts of wastage in the system which has a massive carbon load too - that needs tackling also.
And its not that we don't already produce excessive calories in our commodified systems - the health consequences of those excesses - obesity, diabetes, increased cancer risk etc have now outstripped the health impacts of calorie deficit worldwide.
Anyhoo up - same old same old - time to go do todays .. harvest >>🌱🥕🍎🥬🥔🧄🌰🌱🌱🌱
