Bucolic fairytales are a threat to life on Earth.

“Real solutions to our global food crises are neither beautiful nor comforting. […]

The answer is not more fields, which means destroying even more wild ecosystems. It is partly better, more compact, cruelty-free and pollution-free factories. Among the best options, horror of horrors, is a shift from farming multicellular organisms (plants and animals) to farming unicellular creatures (microbes), which allows us to do far more with far less.” 

By George Monbiot

As published in Internazionale.