Free range/ organic food would destroy the environment, amirite?

Congrats OP! You have discovered that not everything is as simple as black and white.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

True

by adriannahagenes 1 day ago

Im confused if your disagreeing with me or agreeing.

by adriannahagenes 1 day ago

regeneratively grown ≠ organic and pesticide free

by Anonymous 1 day ago

The earth has more than enough resources to feed us, its more so waste. Waste and inefficiency is probably the biggest issue with properly feeding and sustaining the human populace.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

You regenerative farming practices curb most of these issues. There are ton of farmers doing just that in the United States. You should watch some videos on jt.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

every man women and child could fit on the island nation of zanzabar shoulder to shoulder. there is more than enough land to haver enough free range farms

by lindsey25 1 day ago

Kinda think it's a bit more complicated than having more farmers.

by Jaskolskibuford 1 day ago

I think more time needs to be spent on actually teaching children about life, not just stem. If communities practices permaculture and companion planting practices we'd have much less people saying organic food is destroying the planet. Do you work for Monsanto?

by Anonymous 1 day ago

We already produce far more food than necessary. The world produces more than enough food to meet the caloric needs of everyone. America produces around 4000 calories worth of food per person per day. We actually should make less food, and just make that food better and more ethically. That would result in lower obesity rates, carbon emissions, deforestation, malnutrition, animal abuse and food waste.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

The majority of the food we produce is being fed to a middleman (livestock) to provide a tiny fraction of the caloric/nutritional value because 'taste'.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

You point out America as your example however don't really provide any evidence that the rest of the world is being supplied enough food. In general most poorer countries import a vast majority of there food from more advanced farming societies which have a surplus of food. This is largely because those societies do not use factory farming/advanced farming techniques. If we produced less food that would probably lead to a famine in those countries. However I do see your point and it's not a bad one. But why not produce less food and then reforest the areas we no longer need instead of using those areas for a less efficient farming system? We could expand our environmentally protected zones while also making a healthier populous and planet. The only downside would be the suffering of domesticated animals which have no benefit to ecological systems.

by adriannahagenes 1 day ago

Or have less people. That would be a solution.

by Proof_Pie_4032 1 day ago

That's pretty unrealistic

by adriannahagenes 1 day ago

Not with what's about to happen in the world.

by Proof_Pie_4032 1 day ago

False, I believe your view may be based upon declining birth rates in Europe, or the perceived notion of oncoming disaster or instability. As for declining birth rates, India and large parts of Africa will easily make up for any declining birth rates. As a for future disasters, we'll I don't know.

by adriannahagenes 1 day ago

India and African nations are also expected to peak in population and begin to decline. The current expected maximum world population is 10.3 billion. The time of rapidly expanding population growth is almost done.

by Icy_Cheetah2469 1 day ago

Yes but I believe if I'm not wrong that will be by the 2080s. That's still in 60 years, and estimates are extremely low accuracy meaning it could go in any number of ways. Either way I don't think we should expect declining population to save us any time soon.

by adriannahagenes 1 day ago

very few organic farms actually use no pesticides or fertilizers and the ones that do still use them(most of them) have to use them just as often they just only use naturally occuring pest and fert IE not synthetic ones.

by lindsey25 1 day ago

Good point, for some reason I was thinking of how organic farms sometimes use mechanical methods but this obviously isn't all of them or most of them.

by adriannahagenes 1 day ago

"Without that factory farms are the only solution" if only there were a group of people who had been developing a diet for decades that's healthy and doesn't include any animal products 👀

by Anonymous 1 day ago

That's all I eat. If you can't support the population without torturing animals, there's probably too many people....

by Anonymous 1 day ago

So what is your solution? Mass famine?

by adriannahagenes 1 day ago

Things have a way of working out.

by Anonymous 1 day ago