If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer
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Intensively farmed meat and dairy are a blight, but so are fields of soya and maize. There is another way.
By Isabella Tree
Veganism has rocketed in the UK over the past couple of years – from an estimated half a million people in 2016 to more than 3.5 million – 5% of our population – today. Influential documentaries such as Cowspiracy and What the Health have thrown a spotlight on the intensive meat and dairy industry, exposing the impacts on animal and human health and the wider environment.
‘Our soils were almost dead. Now we have 19 types of worm, and 23 species of dung beetle in a single cowpat.’
But calls for us all to switch entirely to plant-based foods ignore one of the most powerful tools we have to mitigate these ills: grazing and browsing animals.
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