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XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, sci.econ, alt.philosophy
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 18:57:22 -0700 (PDT), Arindam Banerjee
wrote:
>On Aug 4, 11:03 am, Immortalist wrote:
>> New Studies expose the destructive history of agriculture-causing the
>> devastation of prairies and forests, driving countless species
>> extinct, altering the climate, and destroying the topsoil.
>
>You mean mechanised farming, I take it. The Soviet communes were
>probably the biggest culprits, and they ended up with shortages.
>
>> In order to save the planet, food must come from within living
>> communities, eating locally and sustainably and we should encourage
>> those with the resources to grow their own food.
>
>Eating much less, is also a good idea. Eating food not preserved with
>chemicals, is also a good idea. Buying or growing fresh stuff,
>vegetarianism, are all alternative ways to go.
>
>> What is needed is an account which goes beyond health choices [vain
>> narcisitic health practices] and a challenge to the potential moral
>> issues from eating-or not eating-animals.
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Vegetarian-Myth-Food-Justice-Sustainability/dp/...
>>
>> ...agriculture has created a net loss for human rights and culture:
>> slavery, imperialism, militarism, class divisions, chronic hunger, and
>> disease.
>
>Not for the ruling classes, now neatly partioned into First World and
>Third World. Of course, there is a Third World in the First World and
>vice versa. The First World everywhere has the rights and the gains,
>the Third World are the losers hopefuly with some hope left.
What about the Second World?
. . .
>Gotta define what you really mean by "agriculture". On the face of
>it, what you are writing is howling folly. We cannot become hunter
>gatherers any more for the wilderness has long gone.
>
>Cheers,
>Arindam Banerjee
It sure wouldn't take long for a few million people to
consume what's left of it if that was their only option.
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