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George Monbiot: Surrounded by fear

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Is Live Stock Farming a Good Idea?

Live stock farming as we know it, right around the world, has to end. Human beings have to stop raising animals for meat. The harsh truth is that live stock farming is the greatest driver of those disastrous impacts which have already been mentioned. Yet it produces very little of our food by comparison with arable and horticultural production. And we desperately need farming to produce arable andhorticultural products. But i think,. by far and away, the most benign thing we can do, and indeed, it gives us the best chance we have of getting through this century, is to take the production of protein rich foods out of farming together and into the fact.

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