Cyndi's Two Cents
Meat-free equals hungry people
Commentary
Animal rights activists who prefer a world where our dinner plates are free of meat are not living in the real world. We simply do not have enough land on this planet to raise enough fruits and vegetables to sustain life for 7 billion people.I support farmers and farming, which includes farmers who choose to grow products for niche markets. I believe there should be a premium paid to farmers for the extra costs involved with specialty production.
If animal rights activists have it their way, farmers will not receive a premium; there will not be enough food for the population; and the price of food will skyrocket.
Tags: Consumer Issues
well, … what the vegans and animal rights activists have not been able to do so far (i.e. wipe out the US livestock industry), the ethanol lobby is about to do for them.
The whole agenda of the animal rights crowd is to increase the cost of production for livestock to where it is unprofitable to stay in business. Wittingly or not, that is what the mad biofuels rush has become.
Ethanol was a good idea to stabilize corn prices as productivity grew or to be an offsetting use in a bear market. That’s how the Brazilians have approached using ethanol to stabilize sugar prices. But now the ethanol industry uses half the corn crop – and they still have more mandated use under the federal energy statutes of 2005 and 2007 – and yet they are pushing for more, more, more. To quote Cyndi above, “we simply do not have enoughland on this planet” to make enough biofuel for a significant dent in fossil fuel consumption and to raise food and feed as well.
The cartoon character Pogo paraphrased a famous Ben Franklin quote when he said he “met the enermy and he is us.” Why so worried about animal rights extremists, when the mainstream ag community has done more damage to livestock in the past 2 years than animal rights activists have in 2 decades?