{"id":4055,"date":"2014-07-15T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:39:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:39:44","slug":"tovar-cerulli-the-hidden-costs-of-vegetarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/07\/15\/tovar-cerulli-the-hidden-costs-of-vegetarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Tovar Cerulli \u2013 The hidden costs of vegetarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/magazine\/nature-and-cosmos\/tovar-cerulli-vegetarian-food-production-hunting\/\">Tovar Cerulli \u2013 The hidden costs of vegetarianism<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/magazine\/nature-and-cosmos\/tovar-cerulli-vegetarian-food-production-hunting\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4057 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-07-14_21-06-44_002_wm.jpg\" alt=\"2014-07-14_21-06-44_002_wm\" width=\"484\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-07-14_21-06-44_002_wm.jpg 484w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-07-14_21-06-44_002_wm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-07-14_21-06-44_002_wm-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An excellent essay.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though crops can be grown without manure, such approaches typically require more acreage than do integrated plant-animal systems. Why till more land, and perhaps displace more wildlife habitat, for the sake of excluding domesticated creatures from the agricultural landscape? Though this might help shore up my own conceptual categories, would it serve any other purpose, any greater good?<\/p>\n<p>When I visit the grocery store these days, I realise we have a choice, but it is not simply the choice I once made between the purity of veganism and its alternatives, based on suffering. Walking down the aisles, we can let the orderly bins and shiny packages cultivate our forgetfulness. We can let ourselves believe in all the tidy separations: plants and animals divided into neatly compartmentalised kingdoms, food severed from earth, our shopping disconnected from others\u2019 farming. We can let ourselves be comforted by our own ignorance, by everything we neither see nor want to see.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-4055'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4055);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4055);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(4055);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Tovar Cerulli \u2013 The hidden costs of vegetarianism. An excellent essay. Though crops can be grown without manure, such approaches typically require more acreage than do integrated plant-animal systems. Why till more land, and perhaps displace more wildlife habitat, for &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/07\/15\/tovar-cerulli-the-hidden-costs-of-vegetarianism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,351],"tags":[71,111,110],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-nature-animals-urbanrural-life","tag-animals","tag-farming","tag-rural-life-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-13p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1580,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/02\/13\/are-household-bugs-a-risk-to-human-health\/","url_meta":{"origin":4055,"position":0},"title":"Are Household Bugs A Risk To Human Health?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"February 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Are Household Bugs A Risk To Human Health?. 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