Vegetarian Diets Are Not Going to Save the Planet
29th January 2017
If someone offers a solution to the Gordian Knot of food sustainability, run it through the following gauntlet:
- Does it allow you to do most of your food shopping at the grocery store?
- Does it require just eliminating one or two things from your diet or, alternatively, eliminating all but a few things?
- Does it excuse you from making substantial shifts in your diet as the seasons progress?
A ‘yes’ to any of those questions is the clarion call of bullshit. A long list of solutions gets beaten to death in this gauntlet, and few so much as vegetarianism.
The scientific term for creatures that eat only plants is ‘prey’.