Millions of Tiny Cows to Regenerate the Soil - CounterPunch.org
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Earth Day comes and goes every year but nothing seems to ever really change. We are still headed for climate catastrophe, we are still in the midst of a mass extinction, we are still losing our topsoil at an alarming rate. It is time to center food systems, and especially agriculture, in our efforts to More

Plant based foods systems and degrowth are necessary to combat climate change. Failure to recognize this is soft climate denialism based in profit or self interest

  • DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Love this piece. Excellent at addressing a lot of the various propaganda out there.

    Is there a serious movement for "regenerative" animal-based ag out there? The only people I hear talking about this are like carnivore diet wierdos who usually seem to be using it as a post-hoc rationalization for wanting to eat steak 5 times a day.

    • pocket_tofu [she/her,fae/faer]
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      4 years ago

      I once had the great displeasure of sitting in on an environmental sustainability class where the teacher basically taught exactly that. Huge lib. Also placed a ton of blame on poor POC for eating bushmeat and clear-cutting forests, as if it's their fault that they're desperately doing whatever they can to survive and not global capitalism's fault for genociding and immiserating those people. She specifically brought up Indonesia, as if the genocide of over one million communists isn't still in living memory.

      Edit: according to her, you just need to eat "sustainable" meat like salmon. Fishless oceans by 2050? No, it's fine to keep eating fish, lol

    • D61 [any]
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      4 years ago

      Not sure if there is a movement so much as ideas of using animals in regenerative projects.