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 I flew over inland NSW today. Lots of yellow paddocks with canola (rapeseed) flowering. All that land devoted to growing a crop that just produces unhealthy industrial lubricant that gets put into the food supply. Instead , the paddocks be used to grow cattle, sheep, goats, etc., for nutritious meat 🥩. 
Monoculture crops reduce biodiversity and ruin the topsoil, which is our most valuable resource. 
How much better would all this be with regenerative agriculture grown livestock. 
Many of the other paddocks were tilled for a cereal crop or already growing one. Monoculture crops in most of them. 
I don’t blame the farmers. They’re just trying to make a living. It’s the incentives that are stuffed. 
Fiat food pyramid and fiat money have led to this. 
https://m.primal.net/KWlf.jpg 
 Shitty incentives all the way down.

I forget how big a problem this is.