Meat Eating v Plant-Based (video, balanced spiritual take in my opinion)

[Diana]

...(and this fear will be generated even when the animals are given a good life then slaughtered, as they do not want to die and will be afraid; though this method is so far better than factory farming and constitutes a huge step forward)...

Here is a good article on that subject.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7278393/

This is an excellent treatise and objective view on the subject of animal slaughter.

I always thought "humane slaughter" was an oxymoron, since, we would never slaughter humans (now).

Also, we could optimize food with the following approach.

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/26/e2015025118

It's the closest to us eating sunlight and air.

Another excellent article. This is the sort of innovation I was referring to earlier, when I said that the past can inform us as we move forward. We will, as creative beings, come up with new ways—such as Photovoltaic-driven microbial protein production as is covered in the article—to survive and harmonize with the environment and the other life forms on this planet, which is also a being.

Thank you Patrick for finding and posting these articles.