Conventional meaning where some odd 70-90% of meat production comes from industrial farms globally. Also including extractive farming in which land is strip of nutrients as effectively as possible and fossil fuels are mine, shipped and processed to both power the mechanisasion of those farms and flood the soil with synthesized fertilizer to reduce times between extractive crop production. Mainly to produce feed stock that is easily fed into factory farms.
That is currently the norm. People like me with chickens in the garden or my neighbors with goats in their pastures are by in large the minority.
Still fairly obvious. If I, an alien, cared about the animals (in this case humans) the third option of seeing likely reduce stage and output from human habitats to be extracted in exchange for people to have more autonomy and a pathway to non-exploitive existence.
It seems we at the very least agree that industrialization of agriculture comes with an environmental cost which is too high (and probably not substainable on the long run).
Also, we seem to agree to do not let farm animals survive by selselves in the wild, but keep some human rise some (in good conditions).
But so, I am not that sure on what we disagree. I would guess that vegans in your place may allow rising animals? Here, they had many movements to free some farm animals from their fields claiming it is better for them to die early and free than to live in slavery… While I see the beauty of the aim, I find the consequences scary.
Conventional meaning where some odd 70-90% of meat production comes from industrial farms globally. Also including extractive farming in which land is strip of nutrients as effectively as possible and fossil fuels are mine, shipped and processed to both power the mechanisasion of those farms and flood the soil with synthesized fertilizer to reduce times between extractive crop production. Mainly to produce feed stock that is easily fed into factory farms.
That is currently the norm. People like me with chickens in the garden or my neighbors with goats in their pastures are by in large the minority.
Still fairly obvious. If I, an alien, cared about the animals (in this case humans) the third option of seeing likely reduce stage and output from human habitats to be extracted in exchange for people to have more autonomy and a pathway to non-exploitive existence.
What kind of existence do you?
It seems we at the very least agree that industrialization of agriculture comes with an environmental cost which is too high (and probably not substainable on the long run).
Also, we seem to agree to do not let farm animals survive by selselves in the wild, but keep some human rise some (in good conditions).
But so, I am not that sure on what we disagree. I would guess that vegans in your place may allow rising animals? Here, they had many movements to free some farm animals from their fields claiming it is better for them to die early and free than to live in slavery… While I see the beauty of the aim, I find the consequences scary.