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Originally Posted by medaille  I think it is pretty clear that eliminating meat from our diet is the most environmentally beneficial thing we could do. It's pretty blatant. |
Not in all cases.
The place where I live has a population density of 6/km2 (15.5/sq mile) and not much industry. That leaves a lot of room for agriculture. Growing grains and such is not really viable and if it were most of it would not be suitable for human consumption, which is the case in the rest of my country. Like I said there is a lot of room for animals to roam and to my limited knowledge they live primarily on grass. Who would eat the grass otherwise? Not humans. Who can eat the grains mainly cultivated? For the most part not humans.
The agriculture is on the other hand heavily subsidized. The alternative is to buy most food from elsewhere (which we already do anyway). We would have to give up our love of dieray(spelling?)-products. I wonder what the enviromental impact would be if everyone here went vegan/vegeterian/etc (dismissing the good/bad health effects)? I don't know.