Hey, I’d like to end them, too, but his solution–to go vegetarian–is not nutritionally viable to me. It would be in no way a dietary improvement.
It sure would be great if we could somehow manufacture meat without the suffering, though. It’s a technology that would be very useful for spaceflight.
Everything I have read has Central Mexico as H1N1’s most likely origin.
Want to kill lots of humans? Cluster many humans in a concentrated urban area and wait for the next epidemic. So, by the same logic, Ban Cities! Go Rural!™
Isn’t it simple to solve the world’s problems?
“Conservatives in turn should be careful not to reject sound arguments just because they come from the mouths of liberals.”
Yes, I was immediately skeptical of this op-ed pushing propaganda where the well being of humans isn’t a moral consideration.
I wish the people proposing this stuff went out and lived off the land for a while and reported back with ways to feed billions of humans with what they learned. I doubt they could feed themselves.
The “Killing Fields” of Cambodia was such a success that we want to stop large scale commercial agribusiness, right? (/sarc, if it is needed)
Someone who believes in abortion up to birth claims to care how animals feel. Huh.
If there’s one publication I go to for farm policy, it’s “National Review”. This, assumes that 80% of the population wants to take up farming like it was 1900. Or we could let starvation balance the population.