27 December

Something I think many vegans (and others) don’t understand is that the best way to protect the diversity of life, is to eat it. If you eat a wide variety of plants and animals, then it’s in your best interests to nurture those same plants and animals. This is what Aboriginal Australians did, engineered the landscape to be favourable to the many plants and animals they ate. Which created a rich and diverse landscape. We on the other hand farm huge monocultural wastelands, which empties the landscape of all but a handful of living things. We idolise our native animals, for example, but rarely eat them. So they’re all rapidly becoming extinct, because eating them would mean nurturing the landscape to support them.