Responsible meat-eating

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jimmy_james
Some random counterpoints to earlier posts:
- The deforestation argument isn't intrinsically valid against either meat or soy consumption. What matters is whether you eat meat or soy from an area that has been deforested.
- Similarly, I think soil erosion is a bit of a red herring if we're taking about locally sourced meat. Most of Britain's grazing land was deforested hundreds of years ago.
Tl;Dr - eating Welsh lamb won't deforested the Amazon and is unlikely to increase soil erosion beyond what has already occurred.

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NotThamesWater in reply to @jimmy_james

Soy is pretty much a fungible commodity though - being able to select your soy grower directly is going to be tough. Selecting it indirectly - whether as a direct component of human food, or an indirect component as animal feed, is going to be nigh on impossible.

So eating welsh lamb in fact may contribute to deforestation of the Amazon.

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