I am not talking about capitalism. I am talking about the survival of humans and the ecosystems around us. We need to battle climate change. And the industrialized cow agriculture is one of the biggest problems in that.
In particular, I also consider it more optional than e.g. heating rooms in the winter. The excessive consumption of milk products and meat only started after WW2 and is widely considered unhealthy. Food experts have been begging for us to eat more veggies, for decades.
Capitalism will not work for this. We need to financially support farmers in transitioning to more climate-friendly options. Humanity as a whole fucked up in that regard, and we need a solution sooner rather than later.
Waiting until capitalism badly self-regulates, that will cost us more and more of the ecosystems we depend on, and force more and more ethnic groups around the globe into extreme poverty, into political instability, into dictatorships and terrorism.
The sooner we have a solution, the better for humanity as a whole, but I absolutely do not see a reason why this would need to happen at the cost of farmers.
And I do not have a problem with heritage. If we go back to pre-industrial levels of cow agriculture, that’s plenty good for battling climate change.
And the industrialized cow agriculture is one of the biggest problems in that.
Pasture-fed cows, such as the French use for top-tier butter, isn’t. And that’s even before considering that there’s a gazillion things more impactful than cows when it comes to climate change.
You’d have to look at Danone, not Croissants… and Danone actually isn’t that bad TBH as far as giant milk companies are concerned. Arla, OTOH, is exporting milk powder into the world. The easiest change would be to ban the import of soy, or demand that producers must produce X% of the food on the same farm (it’s essentially 100% for organic production already), but then that might cause some serious fallout with South America which’d suddenly sit on mountains of soy.
I am not talking about capitalism. I am talking about the survival of humans and the ecosystems around us. We need to battle climate change. And the industrialized cow agriculture is one of the biggest problems in that.
In particular, I also consider it more optional than e.g. heating rooms in the winter. The excessive consumption of milk products and meat only started after WW2 and is widely considered unhealthy. Food experts have been begging for us to eat more veggies, for decades.
Capitalism will not work for this. We need to financially support farmers in transitioning to more climate-friendly options. Humanity as a whole fucked up in that regard, and we need a solution sooner rather than later.
Waiting until capitalism badly self-regulates, that will cost us more and more of the ecosystems we depend on, and force more and more ethnic groups around the globe into extreme poverty, into political instability, into dictatorships and terrorism.
The sooner we have a solution, the better for humanity as a whole, but I absolutely do not see a reason why this would need to happen at the cost of farmers.
And I do not have a problem with heritage. If we go back to pre-industrial levels of cow agriculture, that’s plenty good for battling climate change.
Pasture-fed cows, such as the French use for top-tier butter, isn’t. And that’s even before considering that there’s a gazillion things more impactful than cows when it comes to climate change.
You’d have to look at Danone, not Croissants… and Danone actually isn’t that bad TBH as far as giant milk companies are concerned. Arla, OTOH, is exporting milk powder into the world. The easiest change would be to ban the import of soy, or demand that producers must produce X% of the food on the same farm (it’s essentially 100% for organic production already), but then that might cause some serious fallout with South America which’d suddenly sit on mountains of soy.