lilivati
beyond the detrimental health effects, worldwide veganism would require doubling the worlds actual farmed acreage (by a factor of about 10 if the AR whackos had their way & completely banned hunting & trapping even for crop protection) farmed land alone supports minimal wildlife but it supports a huge tonnage of wildlife when adequate cover exists around it. if predation control is permitted w/o the big numbers of sport hunters it would require techniques (like poison bait & lethal trapping) that would produce a huge bykill. additionally the cost of govt paid proffessional hunters using govt supplied material in the USA alone would be a tax burden at least 10X higher than current USDA activities.
beyond the detrimental health effects, worldwide veganism would require doubling the worlds actual farmed acreage (by a factor of about 10 if the AR whackos had their way & completely banned hunting & trapping even for crop protection) farmed land alone supports minimal wildlife but it supports a huge tonnage of wildlife when adequate cover exists around it. if predation control is permitted w/o the big numbers of sport hunters it would require techniques (like poison bait & lethal trapping) that would produce a huge bykill. additionally the cost of govt paid proffessional hunters using govt supplied material in the USA alone would be a tax burden at least 10X higher than current USDA activities.
Pops, I am in no way advocating any sort of law or policy forcing people to eat only plants. However, I suspect that people eating less meat (even if by some of them eating no meat while others eat the same) wold decrease factory farms and the ammount of grain and such that is fed to livestock, rather than people. And, I did say vegitarianism, not veganism. Veganism is unviable . . . and unhealthy. As for banning pest control . . . that's nuts. But then that's PETA. Which is my point. Take a reasonably good idea, or at least one that is not insane, and use it as a front for an idea that is totally bug nuts.