Add to the intensive livestock farming of today the economic conditions that make it cheaper to ship out live animals to Poland (say) for slaughter, ship carcasses to Belgium (say) for cleaning cutting and packaging in plastic. then shipping back to the supermarket down the road from the farm makes unecessary environmental impact. Stopping hat could help save the planet. We discovered what a web of networks existed during thr horsemeat scam a few years ago, so these ploys exist. together with the scams that crossing trading boundaries levies and grants that support it. At least Brexit will help in this respect.
That was not my rationale. America have I think 3 different farming technique, the worse is high intense, grain fed beef industry, which produce poor quality meat. You gave additional info, which is not my point.
You brought it up, your comment is negated by supporting our dairy and beef industry, we need to, support them for our economy dairy farmers need to be paid more for their products, This country imports far too much.
Unfortunately the move away from traditional agricultural farming to intense farming, this method leeched away the nutrients from the soil, the need for heavy fertilization was essential unfortunately the usage caused pollution in the waterways, stubble burning was banned, which did put nutrients back. Slurry is important to assist with the enrichment, if both dairy and beef industry goes, Britain will be heavily reliant on imports, carbon footprint logically increase, as this country cannot rely on agriculture to feed the masses because it has very little land for high production, as it is, it has been destroyed, that's why meat and dairy flourished. Sheep are able to graze where nothing can be grown.
Heavy farming destroys the environment, it will continue to worsen, in America heavy farming turned Prairies into dust basins, in Texas, they rely on creating rain, by using flares with chemicals to create crystals for clouds to make rain.
The meddling of people's diet through recommendations seems to have increased poor health, along with the insistent of cheap foods, which produced poor quality products, along with ever increasing usage of sugar types dextrose, molasses, glucose, fructose, syrups, corn syrup cheap and nasty, along with other fillers, for those on lower income,
We all know about the eat well plate.
Trying to persuade the world population to become vegans and whole food plant based diet, spells total disaster for both health and environment. It's one way to reduce the population through malnutrition and starvation.
Just because a certain part of the world may eat tofu or vegaterian doesn't mean that the rest of the world can, It's because those few people have adapted to that diet over thousands of years through changes of adaptations. Exactly the same for those who live in high altitude, they can because of adaptation of their physiology, doesn't mean the rest of us are able to.
Natural changes happen, thats why we're all different,, as the climate changes, we will change slowly , its all down to our genes in those circumstances. for now we are omnivores not, ruminants, as we know what happens when forcing animals a diet which they are not adapted to, I'll health and disease.