I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat (but farm it right) | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/06/meat-production-veganism-deforestation

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I think I'm going to have to pick this book up. A lot of the numbers around the environmental impact of livestock farming have seemed off to me particularly in relation to arguments about grain (because, well, what's wrong with grass-fed?) and water (because invariably, the numbers seem to assume that any water fed to a cow never leaves the cow, which is pretty self-evidently wrong). It's nice to see that someone's actually taken the numbers apart and proved them wrong/fallacious, and done so in a way that convinces even a big hippy like Monbiot.