the animal industry

damning criticism

(lifted from reddit)

If you are not vegan, you support extreme agony and violence against other animals without any justification or necessity, and you support the greatest form of climate destruction by far.

prompt: Schindler's cows

And that's no exaggeration. If we implement veganism, we are able to reclaim about 75 % of the land that is currently used to grow animal feed etc. Globally, that corresponds to an area the size of North America and Brazil combined. That itself reduces emissions enormously, but we then can also rewild those vast areas of land. If we restore wild ecosystems on just 15 % of that land, we save about 60 % of the species expected to go extinct. We then also are able to sequester about 300 petagrams of carbon dioxide. That is nearly a third of the total atmospheric carbon increase since the industrial revolution. Now let's say we were not so conservative, and we brought that up to returning 30 % of the agricultural land to the wild. That would mean that more than 70 % of presently expected extinctions could be avoided, and half of the carbon released since the industrial revolution could be absorbed.

So basically by implementing a switch to veganism, we would not just halt but reverse our contributions to global warming. That and it would also be a step towards ending our violence against non-human animals.

References:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2784-9

https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/10/rewilding-farmland-can-protect-biodiversity-and-sequester-carbon-new-study-finds

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

the fix

A physical internet (via drive cables, a packet switched gondola network) where you can easily get most of a meal delivered to your kitchen.

I believe it's mostly the complexity of really good vegan cooking that holds people back.

This can be seen in the way the bag-of-chips product often has milk solids added to fatten it up.

The veges can be tastier, but that requires either:

• Growing such healthy specimens the eater is in awe, wants nothing else
• Adding other veges - just the right ones, prepared just so...

Which is where "most of a meal delivered" comes in.

Provide the hard stuff like caramelising onions, freshly seared chilli, rendering down and steeping (for a day?) a tomato sauce...

Such a system would have surplus, so it might push food on people in that case.

Quite new world.