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Wrong About Being Wrong

George Monbiot · 27 Nov 2013

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Meat produced from waste and rangeland is efficient enough that giving up meat is not the only ethical answer to world hunger.

No longer holdsI was swayed by his argument. But now I find myself becoming unswayed. In the spirit of unceasing self-flagellation I think I might have been wrong about being wrong.

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  1. Our reading

    Meat produced from waste and rangeland is efficient enough that giving up meat is not the only ethical answer to world hunger.

    No longer holdsI was swayed by his argument. But now I find myself becoming unswayed. In the spirit of unceasing self-flagellation I think I might have been wrong about being wrong.
    Their words nowPart of the problem is that while livestock could be fed on waste and rangelands, ever less of the meat we eat in the rich nations is produced this way.

  2. Our reading

    Grazing livestock on land too poor for crops does more environmental damage per unit of meat than feeding grain to animals does.

    Their wordsWasteful and destructive as feeding grain to livestock is, ranching appears to be even worse.

  3. Our reading

    Meat raised on feed humans cannot eat, on land that cannot grow crops, can be eaten with a clear conscience.

    No longer holdsIn the spirit of unceasing self-flagellation I think I might have been wrong about being wrong.
    Their words nowWhile researching my book Feral, I also came to see extensive livestock rearing as a lot less benign than I – or Simon Fairlie – had assumed.

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