Posted on 02/03/2021 10:23:06 AM PST by Olog-hai
The way food is grown around the world threatens 24,000 of the 28,000 species that are at risk of extinction, according to a report published Wednesday that calls on world leaders to urgently reform the global food system.
Plants and animals are dying out at a rate that is at least tens — if not hundreds — of times faster than the average over the past 10 million years, according to the report, which was published by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), British think tank Chatham House, and animal welfare organization Compassion in World Farming. The decline has mostly been driven by people destroying natural ecosystems to make space for cropland and pastures.
But world leaders could slow the accelerating loss of the planet’s wildlife with simple steps: protecting more land, farming with fewer pesticides and monocultures, and shifting diets from meat towards plants. The scope of the first two solutions, the authors warned, depends on how much people change their diets and stop throwing food away.
“If our demand for food continues to increase, the more intensively we have to use the land that is left,” said Tim Benton, an ecologist at the think tank Chatham House and co-author of the report. “It is about changing the way that we relate to food.” …
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They are DEMONIC!
Sorry, if it comes to a choice of me eating or some snail darter eating I know what my decision is.
Eat the snail darter?
Asking for a friend.
More panic porn from your friendly eco-nazis. The world is also warming so fast that everything is going to burst into flames in the next ten years.
Of course this picture from yesterday taken in Chicago seems to discredit this nonsense just a smidge...
“Stop throwing food away”
Eat your garbage!
Nah, I prefer beef so the snail darter is going to have to take one for the team and extinct. Something that wouldn’t affect my life in the slightest.
We have to be able to discern truth when we see it. This one is actually true. It is true as in factual, real, actually happening.
Number one, dragnetting in the ocean by fishing boats. They have nets miles long where they scoop everything out of the ocean and it all dies then they throw away the non food life which is off course dead. The Japanese loves they some seafoods. Pretty soon only squid will be left in the oceans.
Number two, the Chinese eat everything. The have recipes for bats, pangolins, all kinds of birds snakes lizards, they kill rhinoceros in Africa to get the horn.
Number three, farmland gets converted to housing and wilderness gets converted to farming. It’s pretty much a one-way process. I live in a place that is extremely productive in terms of agriculture. In 20 years I have seen thousands of acres of orchards and flat smooth rice fields get turned into housing developments and industrial parks, mostly warehouses, while huge chunks of land inside the city limits are covered with weeds garbage junk and homeless people. Where are the wild animals going to live? I guess rats jackrabbits and coyotes are considered wildlife.
And don’t forget about whaling. They still do that. The Japanese go whaling in Antarctica. They don’t need to kill whales to survive they just like to eat them. I would be in favor of using the United States Navy to use torpedoes on whaling vessels.
Don’t think you can conclude that even with what you’ve added. Certainly can’t arrive at the UN’s conclusion.
The dumb snail darter is about 4 inches long and really has no current urgent role in the universe.
So just kill off about 3/4s of the world population....pandemic 2 or Iran or the norks may start the process...
How are they smoked?
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