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[-] Aux@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

That's not an edge case, plenty of countries have little to no arable land. Scotland and Japan have around 10% of arable land, New Zealand has 2%. Growing veggies is a luxury, especially in northern parts of the world.

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Yes, but shipping veggies has negligible GHG emissions compared to livestock farming. You're hung up on a small fraction of livestock production when the vast majority is factory farmed.

[-] Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago

We are always working at solving problems. Right now the world is trying to figure out how to have its meat and eat it too, and spending all of our energy and money on that.

If we decided the problem was figuring out how to grow plants in those conditions, I bet you'd find we would improve that too.

[-] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

Take a look at a map of Norway. If you find a way of growing crops on rocks that are dozens of kilometres from the nearest road, and covered in snow 8/12 months a year, please let me know.

[-] Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well you'd have to make exceptions for those that can't have their food shipped from better climates and also can't grow their own food. I'd imagine those peoples lives wouldn't change much from now were the rest of the world to stop eating meat.

Everyone who has the ability to avoid eating meat, should. Bringing up exceptions doesnt negate that position, its built in.

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