Organic farming wastes resources and what about the animals?
We should all care where meat comes from. Poor animal welfare shames us all. Writing in the Guardian, George Monbiot has an idea:
One study in Britain suggests that, if we stopped using animal products, everyone in Britain could be fed on just 3m of our 18.5m hectares of current farmland (or on 7m hectares if all our farming were organic).
Organic is wasteful, then, right? And if we stop using animal product, where does the fertiliser for organic come from?
The study Monbiot cites is in the Land Magazine. You can read it there, and then know that according to the Soil Association, “Organic means…no manufactured herbicides or artificial fertilisers.”
Poo it is, then. We need farm animals. But we can all agree they must be well treated. Anything less is a curse on our age.
Posted: 21st, October 2017 | In: News, Technology, The Consumer Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
