Animal products and the environment — readings

Submitted by Zac Muddle on 8 September, 2021 - 4:55 Author: Various authors
Cows lined up in a barn

Many on the green left advocate a huge reduction in animal product consumption, society- and world-wide. They point to the industry's environmentally destructive impacts, and call for land to be freed up for rewilding, afforestation, and other climate interventions. Others see it as a distraction from tackling fossil capital, an incorrect assessment of agriculture, a concession to lifestyle politics, moralism, or even authoritarian. What should socialist environmentalists say and do? Workers' Liberty's monthly socialist environmentalist reading group read the articles below, and discussed "Meat: environmentally bad, good, or a non-issue?" in October 2021.

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