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- Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
Can't read the article because I am not a subscriber.
However as far as I am aware smoking is not illegal.
There are restrictions on where you can smoke (mainly aimed at not inflicting "secondary smoking" on the unwilling). I fully support this.
However there are still places where you can smoke in public (like the tables outside in the street) and you can certainly smoke in your own home.
I'm not sure that there is an equivalent "secondary meat eating" which can turn you into an unwilling carnivore.
I await more information with interest.
If the aim is to ban commercial raising of livestock this won't be enough in the long run.
There are plenty of wild animals running free in the UK.
Mainly deer, but also wild boar.
Jury is out on game birds which are bred for shooting but I assume there are wild breeding colonies of these as well.
I assume that if commercial raising of meat animals is banned, the upland areas currently farmed but not suitable for arable farming will be abandoned and then populated by animals including grazers.
I'm not sure if this proposal includes the killing of every single sheep, horse and cow in the UK.
There are a significant number of licensed hunters who go out and shoot wild deer for food.
An ecologically sound approach because there are far too many wild deer and they need culling to prevent damage to agricultural crops.
This is an interesting challenge.
What do you do if your crops are overrun with wild deer?
Kill them and give them a natural burial?
Let carnivores (human or wild predators) kill and eat them?
Try and dose them with contraceptives without any leaking into the environment?
O.K.
Back to real life.
Never happen.
The banning of intensive rearing of cattle in feed lots, as seen for example in the USA and
Argentina, however would certainly have my support.
However as far as I am aware smoking is not illegal.
There are restrictions on where you can smoke (mainly aimed at not inflicting "secondary smoking" on the unwilling). I fully support this.
However there are still places where you can smoke in public (like the tables outside in the street) and you can certainly smoke in your own home.
I'm not sure that there is an equivalent "secondary meat eating" which can turn you into an unwilling carnivore.
I await more information with interest.
If the aim is to ban commercial raising of livestock this won't be enough in the long run.
There are plenty of wild animals running free in the UK.
Mainly deer, but also wild boar.
Jury is out on game birds which are bred for shooting but I assume there are wild breeding colonies of these as well.
I assume that if commercial raising of meat animals is banned, the upland areas currently farmed but not suitable for arable farming will be abandoned and then populated by animals including grazers.
I'm not sure if this proposal includes the killing of every single sheep, horse and cow in the UK.
There are a significant number of licensed hunters who go out and shoot wild deer for food.
An ecologically sound approach because there are far too many wild deer and they need culling to prevent damage to agricultural crops.
This is an interesting challenge.
What do you do if your crops are overrun with wild deer?
Kill them and give them a natural burial?
Let carnivores (human or wild predators) kill and eat them?
Try and dose them with contraceptives without any leaking into the environment?
O.K.
Back to real life.
Never happen.
The banning of intensive rearing of cattle in feed lots, as seen for example in the USA and
Argentina, however would certainly have my support.
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