Virtue Signaling seems to be pretty on trend at the moment and there is no better than the vegan movement.
According to them they are saving the world and everyone else is a terrible human.
Anyways, I am actually all for people eating healthier, the commercial food system is disgusting.
The whole system is to it's core screwed up it has nothing to do with health and in no way shape or form do they care about anything but profit.
This includes commercial vegan and plant based foods.
Let's use the impossible burger as an example which has super ethical investors such as Bill Gates and Leonardo DiCaprio (He makes himself out to be the nice guy but remember he is an actor)
With an impossible burger you need a factory so the land needs to be cleared so all wildlife habitats need to be destroyed so a big old slab of concrete can go down.
Then ofcourse all the machines building, maintenance, running costs.
The so called science and development of the product which is genetically modified, mono cropped and sprayed with fertilisers, the complete opposite to natural systems where animals, birds and insects thrive. Everything to do with this system is about destroying life and nature.
Then you have the staff driving to and from the factory.
Then it's wrapped in plastic which of course then destroys the environment as it takes so long to break down
Once the product is made then it's delivering it all over the world via trucks and planes ( how many animals die in just this part of the process?)
Then you drive to the shop again using petrol and that shop will generally be a supermarket that will also have laid a massive slab down and destroyed the environment in the process.
Once you get home you eat the product which has no real health benefits which in return over time makes you part of another system the pharmaceutical, which also has old Billy Gates as an investor.
Lets compare impossible burger to a bio dynamically raised cow.
cow eats grass and potentially some locally sourced, spray free feed.
plus drinks water which would come from either the tanks or dam on the property.
The cows would need a shelter and the Farmer would need a house and there would be infrastructure on the land, but realistically no other land would need to be cleared as most farms where cleared by past generations.
The cows poo on the land which helps to create a healthy top soil which helps to stop erosion.
When the time is right the cow is slaughtered in a humane way.
The meat is either then processed on site or somewhere local.
It is then either sold by the same butcher who slaughtered the animal or packaged and given direct to a customer that buys for a co op or a bulk family buy
The customer then eats it and it has life affirming properties so they can remove themselves from the pharmaceutical system.
In both processes animals die however in the bio dynamic cow, The death of one cow could last a family for a year.
Now of course more than the cow would die in the process, but comparing something that is local compared to something that is global are really not even on the same page.
The problem lies when those who eat the impossible burger believe they are actually savings the animals when in fact they are doing the opposite.
They are being marketed to by giant corporations that have multi million dollar marketing budgets. They are pulling on your heart strings.
On one hand I agree with vegans, the commercial production of animal products is Cruel and barbaric and has to change, I would personally prefer to eat a vegan or plant based meal if I know the meat is commercial but where we differ in opinion is I believe commercial vegan food is just as barbaric.
I haven't even touched on genetically modified food, mono cropping and spraying fertilisers as the amount of animals that die from that is downright disturbing.
Once we realise that we will kill animals, insects and many other forms of life every time we eat then we can really start making more informed choices.
Locally sourced spray free organic or bio dynamic food is the way of the future.
The commercial food system is dieing don't get fooled into the trap that it can be the saviour of humanity, we as local communities are the answer not Billy Boy and all his cronies.
Creating Radically Healthy HumansNicholas FairbairnCHEK Practitioner - Functional Health Coach
Photos taken from the Ethical Omnivore Movement.
Here is the quote from their original post
Knowing there is no such thing as a death free diet, there is a way to kill less, kill better and kill for optimal nutrition, the pinnacle of animal welfare protocol and for environmental health and healing. That way is to eat locally, seasonally and regeneratively to the best of your ability. ~Lana Joe Salant