Alliance between vegans and small farmers
Over the past year, COVID-19 has led to major changes in our way of life at high speed. The new situation also seems to involve changes in our eating habits.
In some villages I visited this year I have heard for the first time about artificially produced synthetic meat. It seems that in the decade in which we live we will be able to commercialize it and vegan practices will make us enter easily.
Artificial meat is formed in the laboratory, multiplying the stem cells of the animal's muscles. Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and the world's richest biotech companies are the main drivers of this product. Ethics, health, the sustainability of climate change and the lack of animal suffering in the face of the problems of industrial livestock are the ideas they use to sell this "plastic" meat.
Commitment to synthetic meat is to help strengthen a new system that follows the same logic as industrial livestock farming.
In cities, and especially among young people, the habit of not eating meat with awareness of the suffering of animals has spread widely. However, this thought has not generated concern for what we eat. I find it curious that vegan friends do not feel concerned about the origin, the chemistry or the production system of the lettuce we eat.
In addition, there are other reasons for reducing the consumption of our meat. Health, imbalances in the consumption of so much meat by the world population, pollution from industrial livestock farming, high consumption of water and cereals, the toxified food it produces, etc.
But not all farmers are industrialists. In the ecological and with the resources of the surrounding area, there are people who love animals and create healthy meat. In Euskal Herria, they're not that far from the cities.
The suffering of animals and people has its origin in a system based on the accumulation of wealth. In this way, betting on synthetic meat is to help strengthen a new system that goes along the same lines as industrial livestock farming. To delve deeper into the problems we have and to commit ourselves to big business so that our food is still in the hands of fewer people.
They want us to move away from nature so that we're even more workers and consumers who are slaves to the big billionaires. That is why it is important to bring the farmhouse and the city closer together, to build alliances between small vegans and farmers through mutual knowledge.
As in summer, I prefer to eat rare but good meat. For us all to live better, better to eat, healthier and freer.
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