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How food is causing the apocalypse and how we can fix it with George Monbiot

The Happy Pear Podcast

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The Importance of Keeping a Global Herd Well

Cattle and sheep farming occupy this massively disproportionate proportion of the planet to produce a tiny Amount of our food supply. What they do is to inflict a massive Ecological opportunity cost and carbon opportunity cost because every hectare that we use for our own purposes is a hectare that can't be occupied by wild ecosystems. We're missing 26% I said that farming octopus 38% right and crops occupy 12% was 26%. all of that is pasture nearly all of it for cattle or sheep.

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