[Peace-discuss] Hedges, again

[Szoke, Ron]

Suggest that everyone interested in this discussion take a look at an article in the current (Sept. 30) issue of the New Yorker, titled "Value Meal," written by Tad Friend.  

It's mostly about the currently popular vegetarian/vegan beef substitutes Impossible Burger & Beyond Meat, which most people find fully equal or superior to actual meat in every way (taste, appearance, nutrition, etc.)  -- but most especially in  the aspect  of a lower burden than animal agriculture on the environment.

~~ Ron


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Livestock farming has a vast environmental footprint. It contributes to land and water degradation, biodiversity loss, acid rain, coral reef degeneration and deforestation. Nowhere is this impact more apparent than climate change – livestock farming contributes 18% of human produced greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.



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Date: 9/25/19 23:07 (GMT-06:00)
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Subject: [Peace-discuss] Hedges, again

What do you disagree with?


https://www.truthdig.com/articles/saving-the-planet-means-overthrowing-the-ruling-elites/


…"We have to let go of our relentless positivism, our absurd mania for hope, our naive belief that with grit and determination we can solve all problems. We have to face the bleakness before us. We live in a world already heavily damaged by global warming, which will inevitably get worse. Refusal to participate in the further destruction of the planet means a rupture with traditional politics. It means noncooperation with authority. It means defying in every nonviolent way possible consumer capitalism, militarism and imperialism. It means adjusting our lifestyle, including becoming vegans,<https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/global-warming/> to thwart the forces bent upon our annihilation. And it means waves of sustained civil disobedience until the machine is broken.”

I’m not sure about the vegans requirement…