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'Do We Have The Will To Avoid Our Collapse?’

Feb. 8, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: Raising, killing and eating certain domesticated animals is the world’s second oldest profession, one dating back at least 8,400 years. Unlike the world’s oldest profession, Animal Agriculture has been assessed by peer-reviewed science as the cause of some 43 to 46 percent of the planet’s nine worst environmental harms. Remediation of these harms are more easily within our reach than all of our other efforts to tame our runaway population growth, energy use, depletion of irreplaceable resources and pandemics.

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