Or maybe stop raising animals where they need their food artificially supplied and then growing that food in a desert?
There are places where cattle can free-range and graze, and grass can be cut during the summer to feed them in the winter. I live next door to such a farm. I doubt they use any water that doesn't fall from the sky.
I agree that meat can be raised humanely and sustainably in the way you describe, but if all animal husbandry were like this, only the well-off could afford to eat meat.
Moral issues aside, this would be completely politically unpalatable (as is the GP’s suggestion of somehow getting veganism to be adopted on a mass scale). We need to consider politically viable solutions (e.g. researching more efficient methods to grow tastier artificial meat), not theoretically correct but politically impossible solutions that are thus utterly unattainable.
throwawayboise|3 years ago
There are places where cattle can free-range and graze, and grass can be cut during the summer to feed them in the winter. I live next door to such a farm. I doubt they use any water that doesn't fall from the sky.
MontyCarloHall|3 years ago
Moral issues aside, this would be completely politically unpalatable (as is the GP’s suggestion of somehow getting veganism to be adopted on a mass scale). We need to consider politically viable solutions (e.g. researching more efficient methods to grow tastier artificial meat), not theoretically correct but politically impossible solutions that are thus utterly unattainable.
rascul|3 years ago