Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Activists call for judicial review of intensive farming to combat another pandemic" video.
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@Boo-pv4hn "Vegan isn’t better for he animals, the amount of forests cut down to grow vegan friendly food, " I'm sorry, but that doesn't add up Penelope. Let's just say that a million sentient animals per square mile of forest die in the deforestation (which I hate), they only lose their lives once. That same density of animals in a farm will lose their lives yearly or every few years, and that's on top of lives of horrendous cruelty.
"waste so much is being bought into stores but never sold we have an exess amount " Yes 100% agree with you on this.
"not considering the fuel for traveling A LOT of it by plane"
The fuel for vegan food does not REMOTELY outstrip the emissions from dairy farming alone, which is one of this planet's largest sources of greenhouse gases. And whether you eat vegan or omnivorous, it is ALL transported from somewhere else. A lot of our meat is shipped all the way from Australia! And I would add that shipping is one of the very WORST forms of transport in terms of the environment.
The problem is, we live in mega communities, each of us living specialised lives. I personally have no space to GROW my own fruit and veg, even if I had the time and inclination, which I do not. And it would be wholly infeasible for every person to grow their own food. Indeed large-scale agriculture was one of the innovations that enabled mankind to move beyond subsistence living. Your solution, while eco-friendly on the face of it, would literally undo 10,000 of progress, and reduce us all to subsistence slaves. AND it's not better for the environment.
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