Fake Food, Fake Meat, interesting article.

[Barleycorn]

Fake Food, Fake Meat: Big Food’s Desperate Attempt to Further the Industrialisation of Food

Industrial food systems have reduced food to a commodity, to “stuff” that can then be constituted in the lab. In the process both the planet’s health and our health has been nearly destroyed.

www.independentsciencenews.org

 

[averageguy54]

Points the finger exactly where it needs to be pointed.

 

[delilah]

Vandana Shiva is a top, top lady. For anyone who doubts that farmers and the environmental movement are on the same side of the fence, just read her work.

 

[primmiemoo]

Will the Chinese people - frightened by covid-19 and the fake links being made between it and eating meat by anti-meat propagandists - be allowed to read sense like this article?

Fake meat is already being pushed hard in China, from what I gleaned on BBC business, 23/4/20:

https://bbc.co.uk/news-business-52391517

 

[Raider112]

I got as far as Industrial Agriculture is responsible for 50% of greenhouse gasses then lost interest.

 

[delilah]

I got as far as Industrial Agriculture is responsible for 50% of greenhouse gasses then lost interest.

Yes, that's clearly wrong. Not putting words in her mouth but she may justify it as describing the industrialized food system in its broadest sense, including transportation etc, but still a stretch to justify that figure.
Do try to read beyond that though, she makes important points.

 

[Yale]

Will the Chinese people - frightened by covid-19 and the fake links being made between it and eating meat by anti-meat propagandists - be allowed to read sense like this article?

Fake meat is already being pushed hard in China, from what I gleaned on BBC business, 23/4/20:

https://bbc.co.uk/news-business-52391517

They won’t worry about being thinned out a bit through bad nutrition.

Plenty more!

 

[Steevo]

I think the glyphosate link is a little weak.

It’s easy to knock a system that exists. Not so easy to suggest how it could actually be improved upon.

Industrial food, fake meat etc is certainly bad for the human race and our health. It’s also a shocking waste of resources whilst claiming to be the opposite.

Yet the world we live in also has an obsession with cheap food which has to be produced on a massive scale to achieve this, hence fertilisers etc.

Value food, everything else will follow.

Pointing a finger at agriculture without asking “how did we get here?” is what today’s world is based on.

We all have a responsibility.

 

[Agrivator]

I became a bit concerned when she claimed:

''It uses 75% of the land, yet industrial agriculture based on fossil fuel intensive, chemical intensive monocultures, produces only 30% of the food we eat. Meanwhile, small, biodiverse farms using 25% of the land provide 70% of the food. At this rate, if the share of industrial agriculture and industrial food in our diet is increased to 45%, we will have a dead planet. One with with no life and no food. ''

By my calculation, she reckons that small diverse farms are 7 times more productive/unit area, than intensive farms that use fossil fuels and chemicals.

Obviously we should look at the merits of reverting to using oxen, together with women and child labour. Particularly when you look at the cost of new tractors and telehandlers compared to the price of beef, milk, wheat and rice.

 

[delilah]

Pointing a finger at agriculture without asking “how did we get here?” is what today’s world is based on.

100%.
I don't think she is actually pointing a finger at 'industrial agriculture'. She repeatedly uses that phrase, possibly because, as you suggest, it is an easy way of getting the reading public to nod along in agreement.
Rather, what she is actually pointing the finger at is 'the control of agriculture'.