Some farmers have turned from livestock to crops to avoid the financial pitfalls and thorny ethics of industrial agriculture
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former livestock farmers – many of whom are not opposed to eating meat – and an animal rights non-profit that promotes veganism might seem like an odd pairing. But whether the players involved were first animated by concern about the exploitation of animals, land or people, they end up having enough in common to work together.
Thank you for this antidote to divisiveness.
It’s crazy that many farmers in the developed world aren’t seeing the writing on the wall. Even if they don’t care about the environment or animal wellbeing they surely should see that factory farming has become unprofitable for everyone except for the few mega farm tycoons. Plus with affordable lab meat and lab milk on the horizon coming out of Silicon Valley these farmers just need to bite the bullet and pivot before it’s too late.
This is pretty cool.
It’s still too early to declare any of these farm transitions a resounding success
I really hope time shows them to be a success, and that it isn’t a lot of time.