... if it wasn't for
- potential ecosystem collapses due to disappearing bee (pollination), insect (food) and coral populations
- rising global instability due to climate refugees
- the upcoming end of the antibiotics era
- ...
This is the one thing that makes me want to turn vegetarian.
we waste antibiotics on cattle. regardless those same cattle become reservoirs where new diseases that could kill us are incubated, because they are mammals like is.
It would be very difficult for a plant disease to jump to us.
To be fair, I remember an E Coli outbreak in spinach that laid a lot of people out. (I probably eat as much spinach as I do any meat :| and here I like to say I’m not much of a gambler)
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Not to take away from your collective points at all. Rehashing the entire situation makes us look like a foolish species to have burned through such an advantageous technology so quickly. One can only hope we might come to yet more elegant solutions.
Of course it’s all part of the same cycle
There are now 80% more people (according to these figures) who now have enough food that they can worry about bees. That's a good thing if you ask me. Now about those bees...