[ SECRET POST #4472 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4472 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Post a controversial topic

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who has been a vegetarian for 25+ years, this right here. I live in southern California, where even if we massively step up desalinization + toliet-to-tap purification, there’s just not enough water to grow food and have any left over for, say, drinking and bathing. We get a lot of our water from the Colorado, and it’s drying up.

And while beef cattle, at least as raised in the US, require a lot of water, goats, rabbits, and chickens require way less and can live on marginal land that takes massive imputs of water and fertilizer to grow human-edible crops. With careful husbandry, they can improve and build soil, and still make milk, meat, eggs, and leather.

But taking marginal cropland out of production and using it to pasture smallish animals would require reworking a lot of how the US, or at least the drought-prone areas of the US, handles agriculture, animal husbandry, and what and how much meat and dairy people eat, so farmers committed to the current system might still get screwed, idk.

Re: Post a controversial topic

[(Anonymous)]

tbf, there's already a lot really fucked up concerning the government and agriculture. small farms are going out of business because the system is rigged against their success, but we still need farms. so while overhauling the US farm infrastructure might have some impact on meat and dairy farms, it would probably be an improvement over what we've already got.

generally though yeah you're right. California could be a national leader in sustainable practices but instead it's getting sucked dry to sate the need for almond products. it really sucks.

Re: Post a controversial topic

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT—Argh, I went to the grocery store the other day and they had two varieties of soy milk and fucking uncountable varieties of almond milk, and part of my brain went “okay, however many almonds are in each carton, each of them took a carton of water or so to grow.” Soy is no environmental panacea, but tree nuts make beans look like a conservationist’s best friend. Hell, where I am, macadamia nuts are a better crop than almonds.

Also, lo these many moons ago, my parents owned a small farm. Last I checked, the most recent owners kept racehorses, had a private airstrip put in, and grew jack squat. Productive farmland being turned into tract housing, or even worse, rich people’s private resorts, pisses me off no end.