Putting #Vegan posts on my timeline means an instant unfollow from me.

I won't honor a way of eating that is nothing more or less than a secular religion and, worse, is physically self-destructive.

No, I'm not asking you to Eat Moar Beef. I'm asking you to look into the actual science that supports this way of eating (or not).

God willing none of us will ever be obliged to follow it, but don't put it past #BigAgriculture to try.

Not sure which is closer to the full picture - #Monbiot pointed out that #BigAgriculture is as complicit as #BigOil in ensuring they're not part of the #COP discussions on #climatechange mitigations. On the other hand, at least now they put out reports like this calling for change:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/03/big-agriculture-climate-crisis-cop27

https://www.monbiot.com/2022/11/14/silence-of-the-lambs/

Two recent @nytimes articles on our broken food system. 1: Farmland Values Hit Record Highs, Pricing Out Farmers. Small farmers are now going up against deep-pocketed investors, including private equity firms and real estate developers. (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/us/politics/farmland-values-prices.html) (subscription-firewalled link)

2. Labor Department Finds 31 Children Cleaning Meatpacking Plants (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/business/child-labor-meatpacking-plants.html) This one hits close to home, as some of the child laborers were identified in my home state of Minnesota. The working conditions are horrible: "Their jobs included cleaning kill floors, meat- and bone-cutting saws, grinding machines and electric knives, according to court documents. The mix of boys and girls were not fluent English speakers and were interviewed mostly in Spanish, investigators said." "The Labor Department found that several minors employed by the company, including one 13-year-old, suffered caustic chemical burns and other injuries. One 14-year-old, who worked from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. five to six days a week, suffered injuries from chemical burns from cleaning machines used to cut meat. School records showed that the student fell asleep in class or missed class because of the job at the plant."

The above articles highlight just two (or so) of the problems with mass-produced factory-farm food. There are other problems.
A strong case can be made for buying as much of your food as possible from small, local producers. CSAs, farmers markets, direct-from-farm purchases. And grow some of your own food as well: Victory Gardens!

#foodsystem #BigAgriculture #agriculture #sustainability #childlabor #immigrantlabor #factoryfarms #meat #gardening #farmersmarket

Regenerative farming practices, which prioritize cutting greenhouse gas emissions, soil health and water conservation, now cover 15% of croplands.

But the pace of change has been “far too slow”, the report finds, and must triple by 2030 for the world to have any chance of keeping temperature rises under 1.5C, a level that if breached, scientists argue, will unleash even more devastating climate change on the planet

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/03/big-agriculture-climate-crisis-cop27

#ClimateChange #farming #BigAgriculture #agriculture