“Fortunately, we know many ways we can make the food system more resilient while reducing food emissions. The biggest opportunity in high-income nations is a reduction in meat consumption and exploration of more plants in our diets,” said Dr. Paul Behrens, an associate professor of environmental change at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Honestly, most people in the modern West eat more meat than is healthy anyway.
Turns out hunter-gatherers haven’t evolved to eat meat every meal, three meals a day, all their lives.
You guys eating meat for breakfast or something?
Sausage, bacon, or ham are fairly standard
I don’t know why, but I was picturing meat in cereal. Bacon is life
Bdya-bdya-bdya-That’s gross folks!
No one is stopping you from putting bacon in your cereal.
Cereal is more of a dessert in my books. I’m very much a savoury breakfast person.
Breakfast steak is the most important steak of the day
That and bread, yes.
That’s because the general population tried to imitate the rich when the standard of living increased, and the rich in general loved to hunt and eat lots of meat.
Are these the same farmers who were protesting regulations meant to stave off these “crushing conditions?”
Are these the same farmers who were protesting regulations meant to stave off these “crushing conditions?”
If you’re referring to the recent protests in Europe I’d say that you missed the mark. The recent changes would have done nothing but put European farmers out of business while moving production to South America. So in addition to creating more food insecurity it would have also done more environmental damage as things would have still have been grown / raised and then required trans-Atlantic shipping!
The EU was trying to sell it as an environmental bill but it was nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to do with food production what’s been done with manufacturing; outsource the messy environmentally destructive part to somewhere else in the world so we can pretend it’s not happening.
Dont forget your also De valueing the land so you can then come in and pick up huge swaths of land on the cheap when the farmers go bust.
Pretty invariably.
Seems pretty stupid for the owning class to let the working class starve. I guess we’ll have to find another source of food…
No snowflake ever feels responsible for the avalanche.
People in general act in their own self interest, and have trouble seeing the wider influence of their decisions.
That’s why good government is so important, because establishing rules and regulations should be a dedicated job done by people committed to seeing the big picture.
But that ain’t the government we got.
I’m tired of hearing that “the people” are responsible.
Companies are responsible. You walk into a grocery store and 90% of the products are packaged in plastics. Most of the products are not produced in a sustainable way. But it’s the only options we have. Most people want to help the planet, but don’t have the option.
And no matter who anyone votes for, governments around the world are too concerned with the economy (read: helping companies make more money) to take any real concrete action and implement laws to help the environment.
I stopped taking my private jet for trips under 1 hour and instructed the staff not to use air conditioning on the yachts unless notified I’ll be there 8 hours in advance.
No need to thank me. We all have to do our part.
“For the people, by the people” has morphed into “For the corporations, by the corporations” in this dystopian timeline I don’t want to be a part of anymore.
Always has been. Men only, property owners, 3/5ths and all that.
I think a more useful way to look at it is that the government represents the people who control more resources. If we assume that, then democracy has to extend beyond the voting booth, into the realm of resource surplus accumulation and distribution. Ultimately it’s in the hands of labor. If labor doesn’t allow for few to accumulate and control most of the surplus, then that surplus will be spread out among more people and thus the government would represent a wider group of people. Unionize, take the surplus and force the government to represent your unions. This is actionable.
All governance is based on balances of power, both real and perceived. Only by empowering and acknowledging the power of the people can democracy truly flourish.
I’m convinced the owning class has divorced the working class.
The lie is that it was ever a marriage.
Marriages are partnerships. No masters, no slaves.
No equality under capitalism.
If only someone had listened to the climatologists 40 years ago.
If only someone had listened to scientists in the late 1800’s who correctly predicted carbon dioxide would lead to the greenhouse effect. People haven’t been listening for over a century. https://folk.universitetetioslo.no/roberan/t/EarlyEstimates1.shtml
UK Farmers, might be a good idea to specify that.
Yeah, my bad. Headline is ambiguous.
This is worldnews so…
Unlike Reddit, you can edit titles on Lemmy.
Might be wise for individuals to learn how to grow stuff.
Family of four needs about ~44 acres of growing space to be self sufficient. That includes needing chickens and dairy animals.
This is the kind of inflation that raising interest rates cannot solve. They’ll try it anyway.
Yeah, with a shrinking supply, prices will skyrocket no matter what
