| Comment | Butchers in Scotland will be butchering meat raised on Scottish land, so let's stick to that context here.
So lets say that everyone becomes vegan overnight, and we cease all animal agriculture (and for the sake of argument lets ignore the implications that has in terms of the extinction of breeds of those animals).
2 really important questions:
1. What exactly are you suggesting happens to all that land in Scotland previously used for agriculture, and what happens to all the rural communities with an agricultural economy?
2. What do all us vegans now eat, given the inability of Scotland (and even the UK) to feed its domestic population purely on the output of crop cultivation (as evidenced by WW2 and extensively analysed re: Brexit)?
I am arguing that, taking environmental impact in isolation, sustainable livestock agriculture is the most environmentally friendly way of feeding the population of Scotland, as it is in most of north-west europe. I am not arguing that the way we currently do it is truly sustainable, just that the bedrock of your argument is pro-sustainability, not pro-veganism, and pure crop production is not sustainable in the UK due to climate and population density. |
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