Attachment to eating meat
lundi 18 décembre 2023 à 14:20George Monbiot reports on the billions of dollars that the enormous meat industry can spend on sowing irrational attachment to eating far too much meat — and the forms of attachment we see around us.
He reports on how the UN Food and Agriculture organization has been captured by the meat industry, and how Cop28 was blocked from even proposing that we eat less meat.
The amount of meat we eat in the US and many other wealthy countries is too much, because it is bad for the ecosphere's health and bad for each human's health.
Meat production does harm to the ecosphere first by deforestation to make more farmland to grow feed for animals, then by fertilizer runoff from those farms. then through the waste that the animals produce. All these harms are massive in scale because the quantities or meat produced are massive.