The silliness of going vegan in 2009 in response to a book on factory farming could only be perpetrated by an actress. I find it hard to believe she attended college; her logic and faux shock are of the 'Omigod you guys!' variety.
Factory farmed animals are nutritionally and environmentally destructive. Also morally despicable. Most Americans have known this for decades, and there's recently been a bit of a renaissance, Natalie, of pasture raised animals, and a return to farming methods of the past. Google Salatin.
Soy, the go-to protein replacement for many vegans, is a heavily treated, usually genetically modified, crop that has serious environmental consequences. Nutritionally, it can also create some issues, as it is estrogenic and can interfere with thyroid function.
My "backyard is polluted" by free range chickens. The six of them function as family pets, organic insect/pest control, fertilizer and compost providers, lawn aerators, egg producers, and entertainment. Would you keep silent about them if you came on my property? Or would that be tatamount to rape?
Because factory farms exist, and apparently Natalie Portman didn't realize this until JS Foer wrote about it, she will now shy away from supporting small family farms that sell eggs, honey, and ethically raised meat, seafood and shellfish at farmers markets, in favor of agribusiness crops like soy. Monsanto's Roundup-Ready corn does not posess a superior virtue, just because it is a vegetable. The complexity of good choices doesn't always lend itself to labels.
Factory farmed animals are nutritionally and environmentally destructive. Also morally despicable. Most Americans have known this for decades, and there's recently been a bit of a renaissance, Natalie, of pasture raised animals, and a return to farming methods of the past. Google Salatin.
Soy, the go-to protein replacement for many vegans, is a heavily treated, usually genetically modified, crop that has serious environmental consequences. Nutritionally, it can also create some issues, as it is estrogenic and can interfere with thyroid function.
My "backyard is polluted" by free range chickens. The six of them function as family pets, organic insect/pest control, fertilizer and compost providers, lawn aerators, egg producers, and entertainment. Would you keep silent about them if you came on my property? Or would that be tatamount to rape?
Because factory farms exist, and apparently Natalie Portman didn't realize this until JS Foer wrote about it, she will now shy away from supporting small family farms that sell eggs, honey, and ethically raised meat, seafood and shellfish at farmers markets, in favor of agribusiness crops like soy. Monsanto's Roundup-Ready corn does not posess a superior virtue, just because it is a vegetable. The complexity of good choices doesn't always lend itself to labels.
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