Let's not forget about the environmental cost of transporting foods of all types...including fruits and vegetables. And then there are serious environmental impact of commercial farming, both animal and vegetable. Economies of scale can help...so if ou live in an urban area, that might minimize impacts...How far are people driving for your food...that has a significant impact. If you grow your food yourself, depending on your practices, it may be more positive or more negative. Irrigation-negative....fertilizers-negative.....refrigeration-negative....artificial lighting-negative....power tools-negative.
If you don't like meat for humanitarian reasons, for taste reasons, for health reasons, for religious reasons, all ok. But don't be a holier than thou vegetarian....Very few of us don't leave negative impacts. (Especially because Prof's point was cultural, not to promote pastrami.)
this holier than thou is not a vegetarian, if thats the suggestion.
i got my family off cow in the 80's.
that doesnt mean all meat is free from me.
my point more so was about population size and its demand for "meat".
wallst and its demand for "meat" of any variety to "sell" to arbys or you, the consumed public.
as well, from where ive been what ive seen there is Way too much food grown in the US.
i see local farmers at the end of the season and how much food goes to waste.
we grow apples locally....why are we importing them also?
let alone the masses of 'grocery store' waste as well the restaurant food waste both of which
come from corp farming and its waste.
they grow for the subsidies to grow....they dont GAF if the food is "eaten" they just want money
to grow it.
so when it comes to the animals caged and killed to wastefully feed 8billion stupid fucking pie holes yah
i got some issues.
another thing?....feeding all these pieholes doesnt seem to be helping much "get better" which makes the
waste worse to fathom.
but, like the mayans, it wont last forever.