Essay by Eric Worrall
I just don’t know what to say to this one…
Thanks to Advance Australia for sharing this gem.
I don’t know when this video was filmed. I’d love to see a longer version of the video, I suspect a few key words might have been clipped. I think the climate protestor might have been talking about animal farming, there seems to be a real push to outlaw animal farming.
Mandatory veganism could be a death sentence for a lot of people.
I know someone who almost lost the ability to have children because she was a vegetarian. According to her gynaecologist at least, about one in five people can’t tolerate a vegetarian or vegan diet. Excess carbohydrates apparently does catastrophic damage to susceptible people’s bodies, including their ability to have children.
Thankfully in my friend’s case, she was able to reverse enough of the damage to have a healthy baby, within a few years of resuming a meat rich diet.
Update (EW): The condition my friend had was PCOS. There is significant medical support for treatment of PCOS with elevated dietary protein.
I trust that the supermarket chains will stock up in time.
/sarc.
I have consumed a totally plant based diet for 75yrs
Some of it is pre-procesed by … Cows,pigs,chicken, sheep & fish (because I don’t have the stomachs for it ).
BTW – Cows and sheep are vegans !!
I live about 12 miles East of Gunnison, Colorado in the Quartz Creek Valley. The county of Gunnison has about 17,000 residents and the primary occupation by residents in the area is cattle ranching. Because of the long winters, ranchers here get a single cutting of hay, and hay is the primary crop in Gunnison County. Most of the hay in this area is Timothy, which is a very nutrient-rich variety and when I watch the hay being harvested and baled, I can’t help but wonder how many more passes of the tractors would be required if these same fields were growing corn, soy or some other crop. Several more, of that I am sure, and I would absolutely question the protein density of these other crops per gallon of diesel compared to the cattle this hay is feeding. I have never put a pencil to this, but I do wonder…
I would add, the cattle I am referring to pasture-fed, including when being fed hay, all done in the pasture. The reason I mention this is I would like to see some semblance of evidence that pasture-fed cattle are emitting significant methane quantities because I don’t believe it. If they were, these cattle would be flatulating non-stop, but they aren’t. And the manure is quickly broken down in the fields.
Feedlots, however, are a very different story. When you pass the big dairies and feedlots in West Texas, you can see small hills of manure covered with huge tarps with old tires holding down the tarps. Who knows what these piles are generating.
For all those anti-farming fools, let them boycott grocery stores and see how long they can live on whatever they find in nature. Hunger Games, anyone?
Monbiot must be committed to Broadmoor psychiatric prison.
Another emotional outburst without any real evidence of harm for their ir-rationale.
Those two pictured are welcome to stop eating anytime, instead of fussing at those who still believe in life.
“Stop animal farming”?
Why, so they can raise vast herds of crickets, grasshoppers, grubs and dragonflies?
Without animals, all of the manure they’ve been planning to use instead of fertilizer will cease existence.
Speaking of manure, we always referred to the scat left on ceilings and walls as flyspecks.
Same process, just not anywhere near as easy to collect and spread.
The loons drooling over feeding grasshoppers to the world probably are planning to genetically manipulate grasshopper DNA so they can raise 1,200 pound hoppers…
Hoppers that would form doom locust plagues.
The things they plan to accomplish with their soft science participation awards.
People have been the problem for radical environmentalists late 1960’s… at least the their view of the problem was clearly stated in the weekly reader in Elementary school by then.. So less people is better as far as they are concerned. I think this may be more important to them than environment itself. Less people centrally controlled is the goal. Both the super techy and back to the woods homesteaders are embraced by this group. Homesteader are low impact and super techies types provide the tools to centralize and control people. The new generation of radical environmentalist are totally nihilistic and would risk famine to save their self righteous utopian dream…diabolical!!