Quote Originally Posted by Derbymiller View Post
I have been tracking this for a few years now, it is very worrying what is happening to farming globally. When we get the so called leaders telling us we have to reduce food production by as much as 30% due to climate change!! when we have officially 100s millions of people starving in the world, it indicates there is a bigger agenda and not one that is good for the regular people. As for ragingpups view on animal products, that is a very 1st world view, I have no issue with individuals chosing a certain non-animal product lifestyle but if you think enforcing such a policy is possible for the world you are living in a fantasy world. We in the wider west are lucky and food comes easy to us, remember less than 100 years ago what famine did following the Bolshevik revoulation, where people ate their own children.
1. Which leaders are calling for a 30% reduction in food production? My reading of it is that it is a 30% reduction (in Ireland's case linked to the article posted) in agricultural emissions that "are mostly from nitrous oxide from the use of nitrogen fertilizer and manure management and methane in livestock.". Where does it claim that any leaders want a 30% reduction in food production overall?

2. Where in 'ragingpup's view' am I arguing for an "enforced" policy? I am simply saying that the further we get away from animal/dairy based production, the happier I would personally be, but there are other considerations, as frog says, such as impact on food prices overall as well as the democratic oppoosition of other folks to such a move. I'm not forcing anything on anybody, as I said it is just a personal opinion to move away from that in the long term. I will vote for parties that put this in as an aim as part of a well balanced offer.