Is Meat Really Murder?

Guybrush · 04-25-2010, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

A big disincentive to following vegetarianism in countries that have grassy hills that aren't suitable for cultivation is financial, since people's options for earning a living would be severely decreased if they couldn't base their livelihood on raising animals and killing them. I assume Norway doesn't have much arable land? I think I recall you said it didn't.

Does arable mean land suitable for growing vegetables?

I've never seen that word before, but from context, it seems a likely assumption.

Not much of Norway is suitable for growing vegetables. I did check up on some numbers, but that was a long time ago. Without modern fertilizers, I guess it must've been even harder. We have a lot of rocky mountainsides and the like where certain sheep and cows do well, but where it's very hard to grow veggies.