CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

If you want to save the world veganism isn't the answer by Isabella Tree

Veganism / Knepp

COMMENTS:


Disagreeing "What Isabella and her husband have done at Knepp is beautiful. But we simply cannot use it as a general justification for eating meat. The Knepp estate supplies 0.0075% of the beef the UK eats, and there is nowhere else like it. So what if everywhere was like Kneep, producing 54kg of meat/hectare? The Uk's 17.2m ha of farmland would produce slightly less beef than the UK eats. And nothing else. Knepp is wonderful. But as a general model, it's a formula for starvation. As you know, I strongly support rewilding - of infertile and unproductive land. I do not support rewilding as a substitute for productive crop-growing. The amazing thing about a plant-based diet is that it uses far less land, releasing more for rewilding. According to the estimates by Simon Fairlie (himself a small livestock keeper), a vegan diet could feed all the UK people on just 3m hectares of land. Alternatively, all the productive farmland in the UK could be used to support 200m people.
 By contrast, if Kneep-style production was applied across all the UK's farmland, it would supply the UK's population with around 75 kcal per person per day - roughly 1/30th of what we need to survive." By George Monbiot 

Disagreeing "A good article, but it left me wondering if the type of farming the author is arguing for, could possibly produce enough meat to meet demand even if people did reduce their consumption of meat." By Cochrane65