Sustainable, and regenerative farming for the food supply is a cause I can get behind.

Locally sourced food is good for food independence and famine resistance. I’m on board.

I found this talk on sustainable ruminant agriculture fascinating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRmwobXCc4c

One of the biggest things we could change, is moving away from grain fed animals. Which frees up the fields making the grain, the fertilizer for the grain… get the animals back to eating pasture/grass. A cow can produce 5kg of milk solids (protein!!!) per day, just eating grass (which no human can eat anyway)… Animals eating their natural diet are much more sustainable for the planet. Not to mention 15% of the earths surface is range land, not suitable for crops, but suitable for ruminants. Cultivated land is only 4% of earths surface, from that 4% we have to get all of our plant based foods. 15% > 4% so animal food has a place in a sustainable food supply

Then there is the discussion of how effective different foods are, if you need to eat 3kg of plant based food to hit the minimum RDA vs 300g of animal based foods, even if the animal food has a higher footprint it has to be measured in the context of human impact. https://hackertalks.com/post/5606539

Most people are already eating a massively plant based diet, something like 80% of people’s diets in the world comes from plants, and people, especially women, are woefully under eating their protein requirements!

Ahh Jagged circle down voted this, so I suspect they don’t actually care about sustainability, and their objection is something else. Pity, we could have had a productive discussion.