The God of the Bible was big on meat. Remember how He rejected Cain's veggie offering? Remember the Tabernacle and its accessories? The altar was a barbecue, not a salad bar.
Does it cover the American food industry, especially the meat industry, which according to many of the films I've mentioned on the natural foods thread is the biggest contributor to climate change of all of them.
CO2 is easy, though: plant plant plant those gardens, everybody plant a tree, or one in a hundred of us plant a tree, over time that would accomplish a lot.
It wouldn't accomplish enough. The world average is 4 tons of carbon released per person. This means that you would have to produce 4,000 kilos of new biomass per year that is then buried and never eaten or used. Americans release 20 metric tons per year. I doubt we could ever plant enough trees to soak up all of the carbon we are currently using.
The animals are shown in these films packed tightly together, standing ankle deep in their own manure, which puts out a huge amount of gasses all by itself, not to mention contributing to the food poisoning outbreaks that require the agribusinesses to load the animals with antibiotics which we end up eating, contributing to the growth of resistant bacteria and so on and so forth. but I guess that's sliding off topic again.
If they were out in the wild all it would do is spread the manure around. Herbivores don't naturally hold their poo in.
f they were out in the wild all it would do is spread the manure around. Herbivores don't naturally hold their poo in.
Someone in one of these films said that if cattle are free to roam and eat grass the e coli isn't a problem the way it is in confined quarters where their hides get splattered with it. And the grass itself plays some role in this though I didn't quite get what.
Yes, meat is natural too, but that's why I put "plant-based" in parentheses to explain how the term is being used.
Someone in one of these films said that if cattle are free to roam and eat grass the e coli isn't a problem the way it is in confined quarters where their hides get splattered with it. And the grass itself plays some role in this though I didn't quite get what.
Well duh, in the worst factory farms they have to feed the animals antibiotics just so they can survive the horrible conditions they are put in. Grass does pay a role cows sheep, goats and other grazing animals are built to eat grass, but if you feed them grain they get fatter faster.
Thing is we dont have nearly enough grazing land to provide enough meat for everyone, put too many animals on the same pasture and its no different then having them holed up in a pen knee deep in their own shit. probably worse since alot of parasites have a life cycle that makes them go trough dygestive systems to get eaten up again later.
I had 3 horses in a 12 000 m2 pasture and it was barely large enough to not get turned in to mud, with the exceptions where the horses hung out most of the time where the pasture was just mud. but there was enough grass to feed them trough the year there, i still had to make 350 square bales of hay for the winter.
If we farm that way to get healthy meat you can expect a jucy stake to cost 100$
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Someone in one of these films said that if cattle are free to roam and eat grass the e coli isn't a problem the way it is in confined quarters where their hides get splattered with it. And the grass itself plays some role in this though I didn't quite get what.
Well duh, in the worst factory farms they have to feed the animals antibiotics just so they can survive the horrible conditions they are put in.
Yes I know, that's the point.
Grass does pay a role cows sheep, goats and other grazing animals are built to eat grass, but if you feed them grain they get fatter faster.
Yes, but they said that something about eating grass in itself got rid of e coli. And that this can't be done because it's not economically feasible, as you are saying. But the point is it's more than the roaming space, it's the grass itself, and that's what I didn't quite follow in the film.
Thing is we dont have nearly enough grazing land to provide enough meat for everyone, put too many animals on the same pasture and its no different then having them holed up in a pen knee deep in their own shit. probably worse since alot of parasites have a life cycle that makes them go trough dygestive systems to get eaten up again later.
Yes the scarcity of land is the big problem, but that's why it would help a great deal if plant foods became the mainstay of people's diets in the west where we have this problem.
The enormous number of cattle and other animals needed in the west is traced to the growth of the fast food industry over the last few decades..
Yes the cost of meat would go up as consumption went down, at least at first, but that would just encourage more plant eating, all in all a good thing.
I think the world will probably adopt the chinese model once climate change really starts to mess with our food production. You know, everything is good to eat, snakes, scorpions, grasshopers....
As for fruits and veggies yea they'r good for you but not the ones from the supermarket, especially the american supermarket. My treas don't produce such shiny and perfect apples that you can get there but i bet my balls that mine are 100X healthier. Tomato's in the supermarket are practically water while home grown ones are so frim you can bight in to them like an apple and you dont have your face covered in its jucies.... But if the food industry switched to this kind of healthy food production the prices would skyrocket and people would starve.
Its not just meat production that is killing our planet the whole food industry is. My fruit trees have grass growing underneath them, the treas that put fruits on your supermarket shelves have nothing growing underneath theyr sprayed with weed and insect killers so nothing can interfere with the growth of the fruits or veggies.
The same goes for almost everything you find on the supermarket shelves its capitalism baby.
Sure there are ways for even city folk to grow their own veggies, put a bag of soil on your balcony punch a few hols in it and place seeds inside it will grow beautifully but noone has a 0.5 ha balcony in the city to have enough space to produce enough food for himself. Such measures will soon be necessary but its just a bandage on an infected wound. There are simply too many of us.
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Someone in one of these films said that if cattle are free to roam and eat grass the e coli isn't a problem the way it is in confined quarters where their hides get splattered with it. And the grass itself plays some role in this though I didn't quite get what.
I don't see how E. coli being splashed onto hides poses a problem for releasing greenhouse gases, and the rest needs some fleshing out in order to be coherent.
Supermarket will have to do if you can't grow your own, though I certainly agree there are drawbacks, that's what all these films I've been talking about on the plant-based thread show.
But you keep totalizing the problem and acting as if we only have five minutes to drastically change our habits. We don't all have to grow all our food all at once, we can do it little by little, whoever can and however we can. and the more of us do it and reject the supermarket offerings the more those offerings are bound to improve too, because they are consumer-driven.
(What does "ha" mean? It's a measurement I guess but how large is it?)
HERE'S a page about the new gizmo called the tower garden, that grows fruits and vegetables "aeroponically" in a vertical space. People even have them in their living rooms, but a patio or balcony is better. Better yet is some yard space of course, but we do what we can however we can and figure if it's a good idea it will grow on people over time.
I keep looking for the perfect short presentation of Annette Larkins and her garden but haven't been able to find one, so here's unfortunately a very long one that nobody will watch, but it starts out showing her garden. The guy talks way too much so it's slow going too. Oh well. He interviews her midway in the film.
She started slowly changing her whole lifestyle 44 years ago and filling her yard with growing foods was part of that. She is now a raw vegan who gets most of her food from the garden. She's 74 in this video, last year I think, so whatever she's doing is clearly very good for her.
Supermarket will have to do if you can't grow your own, though I certainly agree there are drawbacks, that's what all these films I've been talking about on the plant-based thread show.
But what does this have to do with the amount of carbon being released into the atmosphere?
Yes, we're getting off topic but there is the connection that agribusiness does contribute to climate problems so we're discussing possible solutions to that part of the problem. However, I'll take it all back to the plant foods thread now.
Yes, we're getting off topic but there is the connection that agribusiness does contribute to climate problems so we're discussing possible solutions to that part of the problem.
It would seem to me that there could be an economy of scale with respect to agribusiness. You have to calculate the amount of carbon released per unit of food, and I would suspect that agribusiness is much more efficient in this respect than small farms or backyard gardens.
But you keep totalizing the problem and acting as if we only have five minutes to drastically change our habits. We don't all have to grow all our food all at once, we can do it little by little, whoever can and however we can. and the more of us do it and reject the supermarket offerings the more those offerings are bound to improve too, because they are consumer-driven.
Because it is already too late. The way we are farming is ruining the soil, climate change alredy has negative effects on our crop production, it is far to late for any soft solution.
(What does "ha" mean? It's a measurement I guess but how large is it?)
Hektar or 10 ars LOL or 0,5 ha is 53819.55 square feet.
HERE'S a page about the new gizmo called the tower garden, that grows fruits and vegetables "aeroponically" in a vertical space. People even have them in their living rooms, but a patio or balcony is better. Better yet is some yard space of course, but we do what we can however we can and figure if it's a good idea it will grow on people over time.
Thats the method where you spray roots with nutrient rich water right those plants grow fast but they cant be nearly as healthy for you as those grown the natural way. And given that cities already face problems with water suply if every apartment grew palnts this way there would be too little water to go around in just about every city in the world.
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