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"The meat is good for the planet?"

Foreword by FirstFlora: we share the positions of Fairlie is that of vegans and vegetarians even though we are more ethically agree with them. But it is undeniable that some animals are useful biodynamic agriculture (which is fine to tell the truth to organize small food crops and niche of origin and for the preservation of biodiversity for food but to save the biodiversity of the planet and you feed him necessary for the efficient intensive agriculture that has much higher production per hectare). Always say that it is important to reduce consumption of meat. It's nice to see that faces a new kind of real communication on important issues that will not start from dogmatic positions and opposite. So we got permission to add a point to interogativo title.

Here is the article:

"The meat is good for the planet"

If you convert the vegetarian

The editor of the environmentalist magazine "The Ecologist" change the diet, and data in hand, said: "I feel more environmentally friendly a vegan. " But not everyone agrees: "Vegetarianism is a lifestyle choice, more people eating meat polluter"

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Eating meat will not necessarily hurt the planet, indeed. To launch the challenge is the ecologist Simon Fairlie, editor of British magazine The Ecologist and a former vegetarian. "I have not touched meat from 18 to 24 years - said in an interview with Time - and then I started raising goats. But the men did not know what to do: not producing milk, were not children. So I started to eat them." Strong words, as spoken by a man who for 30 years, including investigations and insights, is dedicated to environmental issues. It has now decided to put pen to paper on his new creed prints giving the book "Meat: A Benign Extravagance" (ed. Maddy Harland, £ 19.95).

Pressed by Time's colleague Tara Kelly, Fairlie explained that it is possible to combine a serious commitment to the environment with the pleasure of a Florentine steak: "Eat moderately, twice a week, does not cause any damage to the planet. All farming systems produce a surplus of biomass that must be disposed of, and I do not see what's wrong with giving this surplus as fodder for animals. This way of raising livestock is environmentally friendly and even good for the earth. Goats, sheep and cows in turn produce a useful natural fertilizer to farmers. The cycle is perfect. And I feel more of a vegan environmentalist. "

few months ago, similar conclusions were reached by a New Scientist investigation of 2. Yet the 2006 report of the Food and Agriculture Organization has determined that raising animals for the production of meat produces 18% of annual global carbon emissions. "A since it contains basic mistakes - continues Fairlie - because the assumption that farms inevitably lead to deforestation. Not so. Science has also calculated that to produce a piece of meat are consumed plants useful to man in a ratio of 5 to 1. But even this figure is controversial breeding animals with non-edible plants for us, the proportion drops to 1.4 to 1.

Fairlie also provides specific information about the types of meat that is good to eat to become a good "omnivorous ecologist "yes" to that of pork, because these animals consume waste of all kinds, and yes even the beef, as long as it was brought up in the meadows. "A diet with too much meat is definitely bad - says Professor Peter Migliaccio, president of the Italian Society of Food Science 3 - but to have a balanced diet should eat meat at least twice a week. And the environmental impact would not worry: the Mediterranean diet "polluter" 50% less than the Anglo-Saxon, and these are official data that will bring in Rio De Janeiro October 26, during the world day of pulp.

But according to the president of the Italian Vegetarian 4, Carmen Somaschi, the discourse of the journalist Ecologist from a mistaken assumption: "That's become a vegetarian is an ethical choice - he explains - and then accept or all or nothing. Also eat meat only twice a week will damage the planet, because as long as there will be those who consume livestock. Authoritative studies have shown that the environmental impact of a person who eats meat is equal to that of 10 vegetarians: you use the fridge to keep it, to dispose of animal waste is polluting the waters. I do not criticize those who eat meat, consume only say that it is objectively harmful to the environment. "The Somaschi recalls that when the association was founded in 1952 in Italy vegetarians were a handful of marginalized:" Again in 1980 we threw outside the restaurants. Today, only in our country, we are 7 million and a half. We have done so much to get here, I find it unfair that our commitment to ethical and practical is misleading discredited provocations. "

of the same opinion, the doctor Luciana Baroni, president of the Scientific Society of Nutrition 5 Vegetarian and author of" VegPyramid - The vegetarian diet of the Italians "(Ed. probe, 190 pp).. According to Baroni, "the choice not to eat meat is first of all staff, linked to the most varied reasons. But it becomes a social issue when you understand that if all behave the same way, the habitat of living beings will be safeguarded. "As to healthiness of a vegetarian diet, the nutritionist notes that there are communities that do not naturally eat meat and are the longest in the world, as Hunzas, the Vilcamba or Okinawa. "Unfortunately - he concludes - the trend today is to mediate between the dell'onnivoro will not give up meat, need not renounce the production of profit, and ecological reasons. It 'clear that in this light, attempts to say that the meat should be reduced, and this is certainly right, but it is only the first step is to go beyond. " The Barons concludes by recalling that the average conversion ratio of plant-animal is 15:1, meaning that it takes 15 kg of feed to produce 1 kg of meat. "I understand that might annoy those who draw huge profits from these wastes. But these are the data," he concludes.

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The paradoxes of

PRIORITIES FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND FORGET YOU

The prodigious energy efficiency of man

The man, with his cognitive abilities, with his imagination and his physical strength is also a marvel of efficiency: if it were an appliance would be placed in Class AA . (Indeed, for the truth, deserves a classification all its own, since no mechanical artifact is nowhere near the degree of efficiency).
To work, in fact, on the arc of 24 hours, needs only 3400 kcal . food, that Watt converted into the equivalent of about 4 kWh : consumption equivalent of a large bulb.
A worker , under stress, as economical as a small hobby drill: 400 Wh
Yet, these days, it seems that this wonderful "article" has become obsolete , and all businesses you give great pains to eject from the production chain.

Power, the first fuel

Despite the low per capita consumption, to feed 60 million Italians are needed every day, the equivalent in food 251.2 GW h, or one third of the total power consumption required by our economy.
If the absolute value may seem small, as compared to the numbers required to supply the country's enormous energy to transport goods and passengers, for heating and electricity requirements, the task that rests on the shoulders of the Italian farmers is not little, especially considering that:

• the high consumption of food in the form of animal protein, x 10 multiplies the amount of fertilizers, processing and water (and CO2 emissions) needed than those which would be sufficient to feed a population with a majority instead of a vegetarian diet. The
• Gains for Agriculture, imprisoned in the complex mechanisms speculative, it has reached unsustainable levels, forcing many players to throw in the towel and find other uses.
• the best farmland, once available to agriculture, have now disappeared under an endless flow of cement

They always say that the speculation the last 50 years has served to cement the 12% Italian soil, that that you do not specify is that such speculation has focused on the fertile lands of the plains and valleys, who have sacrificed to building more than 60% of their surface, and the remaining 40% had already assumed connotations of the residual area, from sudden urban void ( terrain vague, define them, effectively, the French)

The left image is a night of thermography satellite, identified with great accuracy, in red and black, urban areas. A quick comparison with the daytime picture on the right shows that almost all the fertile lands of the plains are lost forever.

Agriculture resists in hilly areas and disadvantaged areas where we can still produce a quality food, but not meet the food needs of 60 million inhabitants.

Over the past 10 years, meat consumption in China increased by eight times, fruit and vegetables than ten times, and the UN predicts that in 2050 the Earth will be populated by 9.2 billion people, or 2, 5 billion new mouths to feed.
The phenomenon of land grabbing , that the hoarding of land by multinational companies and international investment funds (especially in Africa), which arises from the concern not have enough arable land, is spreading at a strong pace. (8 million hectares in 2009, 45 million in 2010)
everywhere except in Italy, it became clear that just about food production, through farming, you play the game for the future of the globalized world.
This country depends on foreign trade so as to estimate that, if an international crisis to stop the trade in food, our population would be starving in a few weeks.

largest photovoltaic system in agricultural land

I wonder what he would think, Angelo Piras, which is dedicated to the chilling lake of silicon, is intended to cover 29 more acres of farmland in the fertile plain of Montalto, that the slaughter is made in his name.

Yet, with an ease that is unmatched in the rest of the world, plans to transfer a substantial portion of the remaining agricultural land from food production to electric and doing so in particular on those fertile plains and valleys, with the absurd grounds that they are easier to hide, with the help of hedges, at the sight of the keeper distracted.

A responsible government wise as in Germany and got the time and, last July, has removed any incentive in the form of PV installed on farmland .
The Italian, however, after hoping for a gradual reduction in the rate from the end of 2010, did vote in a Senate halved from their summer holidays, an extension of the very high incentives Contoenergia on the DL until June 2011, six months beyond the deadline, despite the drop in silicon prices occurred from 2007 to date do not justify it in any way.
have been published for some days the expectations national guidelines, which do not alter the situation much: There are two types plants on land, industrial ones, without exemption limits, even if subject to EIA or SEA, and "agricultural" to 1 MWp. The province of Grosseto
theoretically requires industrial plants to place in marginal areas, and instead sets a limit of 0.8% of common use, as if every town had the same percentage of marginal land, for the moment, however, still in Maremma does not move anything for this type of equipment in anticipation of the Region's comments to the national guidelines;
Instead of facilities "so-called agricultural" size of 1 MWp have already left, there are many ; Farmers who can afford to pay 3.5 million euro for a PV system while you have some news that, despite the stakes raised by the province with the obligation of the PMA. campaigns are beaten by brokers who acquire the rights from farmers in exchange for an unused FV rent of the land.
A real farmer would have a substantial incentive to income (€ 15,000 a year ) from a PV system in the trade regime in place, with a capacity of 20 kWp , certainly more within the reach of its assets and positioned on the roof of a barn

Sector Employment and

In recent months it feels to repeat that, if an economic recovery will be, this will be without jobs.
The reason is known: capital income loves and hates labor, especially the West, with its wealth of knowledge, status of workers and unions.
For some time, investors are migrating to or from industry to finance productive activities to low need for manual labor. The estate
photovoltaic born in this light. His profit, which comes at the moment, only contributions from state, and the almost total absence of management staff, the financial returns that equates to more industrial production.

An industrial plant of the American multinational SunPower Corp. of 42 MWp and 120 hectares in Montalto di Castro visited, which cost over € 150 million, employs only a fixed 3 vigilantes, who, in 3 shifts provide 24-hour surveillance.
maintenance is entrusted to an outside firm that is alerted by a computerized system and intervenes only in case of system problems.
The same land, which are vegetable gardens, flat and irrigated, could generate well-used, according to the provincial tables, 300,000 hours per year, ie: steady job for 125 employees , and one hundred times lower investment.
And you are not creating any industry, if not the installation of equipment, which is from the building, does not need the "know how" special and find a job only in the transient solar activity.

The raw material (panels and inverters) is almost exclusively manufactured in Asia, as well as German and English industries, created in the wake of European incentives and are relying on labor, are beginning to de-locate facilities to produce panels de-unionized countries in South Asia.

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In an attempt to defuse the growing outrage over the use of agricultural land by the PV industry, the lobby renewable energy, with an established strategy in years by the multinational tobacco, petroleum and chemicals, has started to ecological theories of dubious scientific validity, that come to state that the agricultural environment would benefit from the massive coverage of soil with silicon panels.

A land left natural to latitudes in spring herbaceous plants that are rapidly developing in the seed also reaching a height of 150 cm from the second year
appear brambles, gorse and thistles in excess of two meters.
Finally arrive arboreal plants.
After five years of neglect, a field, if you run into a check of the Forest Service, would be diverted out of agricultural and forestry to the past.

After thirty, the soil would probably be covered with a soft, fresh layer of humus, but also a coppice ripe for cutting.

The only natural grass that could be maintained under the rows of panels would be recommended for organic farming orchards and olive groves, but the lawn is maintained with the help of repeated chopping, and between the rows of PV panels should be performed by hand, since the passage of a large mechanical means put at risk too fragile and expensive equipment.

Unfortunately, however, is much more likely that, once obtained the concessions made and the plants, plant growth would be contrasted with the use of herbicide. Already

regions and ASL shall authorize other non-agricultural uses, as more and more often we see, every spring, watching the grass first dyed orange and then withered in the pits of roads and highways.

The idea that industrial facilities in PV as a transitional employment (twenty years) of agricultural land, in this image shows all his unfounded:
Yards in cement, electrical substations, and industrial buildings are a testimony to the 'irreversibility of speculative looting.