2008: the year much of humanity began to go hungry

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

I’m not saying butcher all the livestock. We keep chickens in our garden, after all—saved from an intensive and inhumane mass production environment that hugely contributes to the global food crisis. I am saying stop breeding the animals for, say, a year, or two, or three, to reduce the numbers. Manage them, for goodness’ sake. Manage your own consumption of meat as well—along with electricity, water and everything else we all now know is not going to be plentiful or cheap or always available for very much longer.

See, it’s not by any means a question of whether you’re prepared to accept total abstinence. Some of us are, and have abstained from eating meat for years, certainly long before the food crisis began. But it is a question of whether you feel comfortable filling your belly to the max at the expense of others having anything to eat at all.

Add to all this biofuel production making the problem even worse. Let’s not go there, for now, let’s save those for another article (although I’ve covered them to some degree in the past, and was once an advocate of them until I investigated beyond all the hype).

Think all this is too alarmist? What harm is there in having a beef patty or a bit of roast pig? Think again. The notion that your actions don’t have consequences for others, human and animal, and the world at large, is a lie.

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