A recent National Geographic Magazine features food, and feeding the predicted 9 billion people that are expected to be on planet Earth for 2050. While lacking in conviction, Jonathan Foley does suggest eating less meat and animal products. Like the majority of writers wishing to remain popular, he doesn’t push for eliminating what is a cruel, unnecessary and inefficient choice for food. It would be helpful for him to remind us that no human needs to consume animal products; and this message would go a long way to helping feed people, reduce greenhouse emissions and ecological destruction, and curb exploitative attitudes. Here is an important and revealing graphic from the article; it’s an impactful revelation of what we’re doing to the planet with livestock: From National Geographic. According to this, 46.5% of the world’s land remains undeveloped – a bit reassuring as I expected a much smaller percentage. This means…
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