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🐗 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 8 - room for the peeved and cantankerous too🐗

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    So it’s the farm animals causing most of the pollution in the atmosphere? 
    Guardian telling porkies again? 
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/30/clean-air-in-europe-during-lockdown-leads-to-11000-fewer-deaths
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    On the other hand, KT3, someone who is a carnivore but for environmental, ethical or dietary reasons wants to switch to more plant based products that is precisely what they (me?) want. 
    Rutland, England
  • KT53 said:
    Nanny Beach, I agree with you about the problem with vegan bacon, sausages etc.  If somebody is so opposed to eating animal products why would they want to eat something which looks, smells and tastes exactly the same?
    Some people might like meat, but not the way animals are treated in order to produce it. 
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    edited May 2020
    Veggie or vegan sausages and burgers are not, to my mind, "imitation meat".  The meat industry does not have a copyright on a shape.  
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    "Quorn chicken" ????
    How does that get past Trading Standards?
    Devon.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497

    Everyone going veggi or vegan would not  save the planet, there isnt enough room for all the veg to be grown, what would happen to the animals, the farmers! 
    It's hypothesised that if we cut out the majority of needless food waste that we could could give up farming an area of the world larger than Australia. Of course in reality if we cut out the majority of needless food waste we could just use that food to feed the people that are starving in other countries...

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I think a lot of meat eaters [ myself included ] think that we should be eating less meat, we have certainly reduced our intake and now eat more fish and even some vegetarian.
    There is however, a lot of land in this country, that if it did not have sheep on it, would be unsuitable for anything else.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    But also a lot of land that isn't suitable for anything else because it has sheep on it.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • WaysideWayside Posts: 845
    I've just been thrown into this headache of a stream.  I'm surrounded by some brilliant farmland on the south downs, and we still have sheep grazing.  Total waste in my eyes.  Mixing farming could work, orchards and light grazing and other stuff.  Not to mention that sheep wreck land.  Alpacas would be a better choice surely!  It's purely a lack of imagination.
  • WaysideWayside Posts: 845
    edited May 2020
    I've a friend that tries to eat ethically, buys only certain types of organic meat that he believes comes from better raised and farmed animals, and he only eats meat at the weekends, eating vegan pretty much for the rest of it.
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