[p2p-research] arguments for p2p meat production

[j.martin.pedersen]

To that you can add another aspect: vegetarianism/veganism is sometimes
used as an argument against the peasantry and small-scale, traditional
farmers, who are "inefficient" in their land use. In other words,
arguments *against* meat eating that are based on industrial meat
production figures and facts are used to undermine the livelihoods of
people who have traditionally taken care of the country side and who
perform non-industrial practices. --A set of criteria derived from one
paradigm, applied to another.-- In Switzerland - as an example - there
are pastures that have a much much higher protein content (due to herbs
like alfalfa) than the kind of grass-lands used when calculating the
anti-meat argument, and these pastures are the result of traditional
farmers nurturing the land and grazing their cows. As "efficiency" based
on industrial thinking encloses the countryside, those nurtured pastures
are neglected and lost as weeds take over. (This is a point to which I
was alerted by a radical union of Swizz traditional farmers).

On 20/09/10 21:12, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> he's merely saying that not everybody should be a vegetarian ... and that if
> meat factory farming practices would change, the meat overhead would be
> substantially different ...
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> Michel
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> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Daniel Araya <levelsixmedia at hotmail.com>wrote:
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>> I don't follow the guy's argument. I've been a vegetarian for 15 years but
>> I should eat meat again because somehow that will change factory farming
>> practices? He sounds confused to me.
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>> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:25:21 +0700
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>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/06/meat-production-veganism-deforestation
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