It’s the transitioning to a fully regenerative food system that’s the problem, unless we all ate very little meat. A point rarely made clear by regen advocates.
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Definitely agree with you there. I haven’t found a lot of regenerative farming material that focuses on it at scale, usually just one-off examples of why it’s great.
Though admittedly if the 10% rule from the trophic pyramid is right then eating less meat would be more efficient.
Yes, so I think there's a massive difference between a farmer looking at what makes the most sense for their farm — from a business and environmental standpoint — and environmental groups or sustainable ag groups touting regenerative as a climate solution without mentioning the land problem.
And listen -- even if every regenerative advocate (again, thinking more about what's said at a climate conf for instance) just said, hey, this only works with a big change to the way people eat meat, that would be a big step towards transparency.
Definitely. That said, I do think the degradation of farmland by current industrial farming practices is a big sustainability and food security issue. If we deplete our farmland to the point of food system collapse we wouldn’t be the first civilization to contract because of it.
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Though admittedly if the 10% rule from the trophic pyramid is right then eating less meat would be more efficient.