This acticle ignores the impact of the common man - in many places, the majority of the fertilizers polluting the water are runoffs from home lawns. Another it ignores are developers- they don't look at what will happen to the area they've denuded when it rains- course what will happen is a ton of mud pollution leeching into the rivers and lakes. The animal waste, the soil itself, and much of any pollutants from agriculture can be prevented from running off into the water through such simple natural devices as a border of trees around the farm. If you look at traditional farms, they have plots of farmland bordered by trees in a regular squares - that wasn't to say "here's the end of my property" that was to keep the soil and the goodies in the soil, and to provide a small windbreak so the wind doesn't take as much either. Topsoil was a prize, farmers treated it with respect to keep it. Farmers today got these bulldozers and too lazy to stop after a few acres for some trees so they take all the trees down. They don't have to worry if
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peregin8, I also am trying to become pure vegetarian/ vegan. My guideline is not to eat anything that bleeds, fights, or tries to get away. Someone said that Buddha ate meat. So what? We are not seeking the historical Buddha, but the Buddha-nature.
However, I have fast metabolism, and it is difficult not to eat meat of some kind. Think: animals suffer, or I suffer. Sheesh! I know there's another way, but what is it? Thank you for your post about seafood.
Could you authenticate that statement that 5lb wild fish goes into 1lb farmed fish? This would pretty much sink the pro-farming argument. What about eating lower on the food chain (e.g., plankton, shellfish, euphausiid shrimp)? Thanks
This is an old post and I am not sure what the current figures are, but I'm sure you could google re: farmed and wild fish. I have friends with a variety of metabolisms who don't eat meat -- what other protein sources have you tried?
I've tried free (non-factory) eggs, too much cholesterol, free milk, soy and other beans, tempeh, and vegetarian protein supplement.
Perhaps life requires death-? think of our immune system, always killing. But still I want to reduce suffering. well, got to attend to baby Mary. I'll be back. sarve' bhavantu sukhinah: may all beings be happy (ick, such a Sanskrit snob!)
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I also am trying to become pure vegetarian/ vegan. My guideline is not to eat anything that bleeds, fights, or tries to get away. Someone said that Buddha ate meat. So what? We are not seeking the historical Buddha, but the Buddha-nature.
However, I have fast metabolism, and it is difficult not to eat meat of some kind. Think: animals suffer, or I suffer. Sheesh! I know there's another way, but what is it? Thank you for your post about seafood.
Could you authenticate that statement that 5lb wild fish goes into 1lb farmed fish? This would pretty much sink the pro-farming argument. What about eating lower on the food chain (e.g., plankton, shellfish, euphausiid shrimp)?
Thanks
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Perhaps life requires death-? think of our immune system, always killing. But still I want to reduce suffering. well, got to attend to baby Mary. I'll be back.
sarve' bhavantu sukhinah:
may all beings be happy
(ick, such a Sanskrit snob!)
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