Vegan products still use land and farm equipment won’t stop for any mouse or insect in the way
Farmers also shoot pests that eat their crops
A vegan diet is not sustainable for the average person. Ex-vegans vastly outnumber current vegans, of which the majority have only been vegan for a short time. Common reasons for quitting are: concerns about health (23%), cravings (37%), social problems (63%), not seeing veganism as part of their identity (58%). 29% had health problems such as nutrient deficiencies, depression or thyroid issues, of which 82% improved after reintroducing meat.
Many environmental studies that vegans use are heavily flawed because they were made by people who have no clue about agriculture, e.g. by the SDA church. A common mistake is that they use irrational theoretical models that assume we grow crops for animals because most of the plant weight is used as feed, The reality is that 86% of livestock feed is inedible by humans. They consume forage, food-waste and crop residues that could otherwise become an environmental burden. 13% of animal feed consists of potentially edible low-quality grains, which make up a third of global cereal (not total crop) production. All US beef cattle spend the majority of their life on pasture and upcycle protein even when grain-finished (0.6 to 1). Hence, UN FAO considers livestock crucial for food security and does not endorse veganism at all.
Vegans have never been able to define or measure that their diet causes less deaths/suffering than an omnivorous one. They are ignorantly contributing to an absolute bloodbath of trillions of zooplankton, mites, worms, crickets, grasshoppers, snails, frogs, turtles, rats, squirrels, possum, raccoons, moles, rabbits, boars, deer, 75% of insect biomass, half of all bird species and 20,000 humans per year. Two grass-fed cows are enough to feed someone for a year and, if managed properly, can restore biodiversity. The textbook vegan excuse where they try to blame plant agriculture on animals and use only mice deaths, fabricated feed conversion ratios of 20:1 and a coincidentally favourable per-calorie metric is nonsense because:
The majority of animal feed is either low-maintenance forage or a by-product that only exists because of human food harvest.
It literally shows that grass-fed beef kills fewer animals.
"En #France le maïs est un gros consommateur d'#eau d’#irrigation, une plante qui a besoin de beaucoup d'eau en juillet et en août quand il y en a le moins", "C'est suite au plan Marshall et l'accès des semenciers américains au marché français ; pour ne pas devenir dépendant des semenciers US, l’État a crée l'INRA, devenu INRAE, développé un maïs hybride, et l'a distribué gratuitement ainsi que l'eau d'irrigation aux agriculteurs, qui n'en voulaient pas", "la PAC donnait une prime à l’#agriculture irriguée du maïs", "c'est un modèle piloté, qui n'est pas durable", "On peut changer de modèle"
En #voyage de découverte de l'#agriculture aragonaise chez un producteur de céréales bio de la province de Zaragoza, #Espagne.
Fil de photos avec ou sans commentaires.
On commence par deux paysages au passage de la frontière entre Arnéguy et Orreaga-Roncesvalles (oui : Ronceveaux et son col sont en Espagne), n'en déplaise aux nostalgiques de l'expression anachronique "de France et de Navarre" (un check géographique et historique s'impose).
On finira cette montée dans la hêtraie et son brouillard.
Première visite de #champs : quelques #amandiers, beaucoup de #céréales (principalement blé et orge), de la #luzerne, parfois un peu de colza ou des #légumes en grand (oignons, poireaux, pommes de terre) sont rendus possibles par l'#irrigation (zonas de #regadio). Çà et là quelques parcelles non irriguées nous rappellent ce que serait le #paysage sans cette #eau canalisée depuis les #Pyrénées.
"Millions of years ago, sediment from the Rocky Mountains was deposited in the High Plains. Over thousands of years, water dripped below the surface creating an underground water deposit called the Ogallala Aquifer. The water — which spans from South Dakota to Texas and was once the size of Lake Huron — at one point accounted for 30% of the crop and animal production in the U.S…
Although the water source stretches across several states it moves very very slowly. As a result, no interstate compact exists to manage the water in the Ogallala. Instead, neighbors have to band together if they want to restrict pumping…” #GIS#spatial#mapping#hydrogeology#waterresources#watermanagement#modeling#ogallala#OgallalaAquifer#water#hydrology#watersecurity#pumping#mining#irrigation#farming#agriculture#midwest#aquifer#overpumping
Built a water level sensor for my irrigation systems water container. Shows current level in mm via the OLED and via WiFi for low level and leakage alerts.
Uses a pressure based industrial liquid level sensor which is really accurate and stable, fantastic sensor!
#ZephyrRTOS based firmware on a #ESP32 dev board. #LVGL for UI.
MCP3421 for sensor readout/4-20mA conversion.
Building a remote water level readout for my irrigation tank using one of those chonky sewage/~industrial tank sensors and the accuracy is impressive. Paired with a good ADC I get rock solid mm level accuracy. That would give me about 150ml volume resolution.
"Properly designed solar installations can increase food #harvests, reduce the need for #irrigation, revive dying lakes, rescue #pollinators, restore #soils + cool overheated humans—all while producing more power than conventional solar arrays."
"In 1982, researchers @ the #FraunhoferInstitute for Solar Energy (ISE) in Germany proposed a... solution..."
IMO,
humanity should have been implementing #agrivoltaics and raised-field agriculture, #WaruWaru style, including huge #WaterManagement and #irrigation systems in all regions bound to have or experiencing "monsoon type" rainfall for decades.
The necessary construction would dwarf anything in human history.
We are about 3-4 decades late.
This is Fine Rule (i.imgur.com)