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Subsidizing Non-Meat Farming

A lot of changes can come with further subsidizing of non-meat farms.

By Brian AnonymousPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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As we all know eating too much of anything is bad for you. Although, you can eat much more vegetables than meat before it becomes bad for you. Eating meat might not be bad for you in moderation but we consume so much of it. It can lead to a number of illnesses that are totally preventable.

We can't tell people to give up meat either. You know what happens when you tell someone that they can't do something. They'll want to do it even more. There has to be a compromise. I believe that if the government gives bigger subsidies to non-meat farms that it will encourage farmers to continue to grow less meat.

Growing less meat may have a cascading turn of events. Meats may become more expensive and less people will turn to meat as a cheap meal. People of lower income will be able to afford better healthier foods. As a result, we may have healthier people. This would mean less people in the hospitals for better hospital wait times and less unnecessary patients asking for ambulances. We have a more productive population as a result of healthier bodies in the workforce.

The economy would flourish with the extra working bodies and with less obesity we would have more active people going out to do things. They would buy more clothes because they wouldn't be as ashamed of their bodies and be able to experiment with fashions. Morale would go up and there could possibly be less depression with healthier bodies.

Another consequence of subsidizing non-meat farms is that there will be less pollution caused by animals. Animals on farms excrete a large amount of excrement and consume tons of vegetables and water. A large amount of food and water that could instead be feeding mouths of people.

An argument could be said that we need the excrement of these animals to produce the soil for the fruits and vegetables in farms but we have billions of people around the world, I'm sure we could provide soil for farms.

I spoke earlier about pollution being reduced as a result of the animals on farms but I mentioned that sales of clothes would go up. Would we really be protecting the planet if people continue buying clothing at an alarming rate? Large sales of textiles may be a byproduct of the change and I'm unsure how much of an increase we would expect.

Much of our clothes nowadays have such a diverse size difference that much of the textiles that we use in clothing are wasted because we often make clothes today that no one will buy. If we have people all closer to the same size in width then we wouldn't have such a variety of sizes so I'm not sure how much of a pollution problem this would cause as opposed to the significant reduction in pollution from having less animal farms.

I think it's important that we find solutions not to hinder groups but to promote things that we find much more conducive of helping the world. We shouldn't punish people for how they were raised. We should raise a new generation that knows better. After a certain age we get stuck in our ways and the only way to fix the future is to teach today's youth.

That's why I think if we provide better subsidies to non-animal farms we will start to see benefits quickly. The youth will learn that this is the proper direction that we should take. They'll understand that we have the option of eating meat but it's better to eat fruits and vegetables over meat because of the health, economic and environmentally friendly reasons. There's no changing the past but we can learn from it. We need to make tomorrow a better place.

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Brian Anonymous

I have tons of opinions that change constantly. I watch a lot of movies and play video games. There are some articles on my struggles with languages and dance as well.

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