I'm impressed by the sharp turn it made, I was getting ready for it and last minute, nothing.

Starting to look like I'm stuck here; wasted around $60 trying to get a bus out. They said they sent me a text telling me I'd have to try again tomorrow; I never got it. They also said they'd send me a confirmation for a ticket that I also never received.

Sounds troublesome! At least with a non-metaphorical wank you get something out of it.

Yep. Took me about 2 years to make an actual acquaintance.

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Permaculturalists and regenerative agriculturalists understand the value of incorporating animals into a sustainable food system. In non-human ecosystems, animals are an indispensable component of food webs, provide vital ecosystem services, and can act as specialized consumers of food sources that other organisms (such as humans) are not capable of utilizing. The same would go for an ecological food system. Such an approach would be more efficient, more sustainable, more resilient, and more restorative to the environment than a plant-based food system. I can think of several examples of methods that would see implementation within such a system from my own experience and knowledge off of the top of my head:
Black soldier fly larvae are excellent at utilizing food waste materials that are difficult to compost. They very quickly convert this waste into animal protein that can be processed and fed directly to other livestock, such as chickens or fish. Humans can also directly make use of black soldier fly larvae protein. Their waste products can be composted down further or used as an organic fertilizer.
- Carbon farming. Large grazing animals such as cows and bison, when managed effectively and employed in the right context (not in rainforest that has been converted to pasture, obviously), can enhance grassland ecosystem biodiversity and catalyze a process that causes grassland soils to sequester large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere - at a rate comparable to that of forests. Converting the vast expanses of degraded and desertified grasslands that straddle the world's semi-arid regions over to sustainable grazing has been proposed as a viable method to help reverse climate change. There have been studies showing that sustainable grazing practices can also control invasive grass species and encourage native species in grassland communities.
- Aquaponics, when employing fish food sources grown from recaptured food and agricultural waste materials, is the most low input and water efficient intensive agricultural method that has ever been devised. It involves the farming of fish and plants together in a closed, recirculating aquatic ecosystem. Aquaponic systems utilize fish waste as a nutrient source for hydroponic vegetable production, which is already many times more efficient and productive in terms of space and inputs than growing in soil. It is precisely incorporation of an aquatic food web that centers fish that makes it so efficient - about twice as efficient in terms of water use and six times as efficient in terms of nutrient inputs as conventional hydroponics (which is itself up to 10 times more water efficient than growing in soil) - all without the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. It takes a living, biodiverse aquatic food web comprised of a wide variety of both microscopic and macroscopic animal life to efficiently utilize nutrient inputs to produce food in a manner that is simply not possible in plant-only hydroponics and soil. In terms of space efficiency - sky is literally the limit, as aquaponic systems can ascend into the third dimension by utilizing vertical growing methods, increasing land use efficiency by orders of magnitude. Aquaponics also has the added benefit of yielding appreciable quantities of farmed fish as a side crop. Fish food for aquaponics can be manufactured from black soldier fly larvae and sustainable forage crops (including nitrogen fixing crops that require no synthetic ammoniacal fertilizers) that can be grown using only water and fertilizers made from recaptured organic waste such as duckweed, Azolla sp., and Moringa oleifera. Many fish species (namely fish in the carp family and tilapia) are also happy to consume food and agricultural scraps that people will not eat. Moreover, the waste products from the production and consumption of fish add an incredible amount of nutrients to compost. This is what I do for my career, and I know all too well how much it outperforms conventional plant-only agricultural methods. 
- Chickens and other domesticated birds, like black soldier fly larvae, are excellent at converting food scraps and agricultural waste into forms that can be very effectively re-integrated as inputs into a sustainable food system. Ask any organic farmer and they will tell you that chicken manure is one of the best fertilizers there is. Not only can it be applied directly onto fields, it can also serve as a food source for certain species of fish in aquaponics. Such aquaponic food systems that integrate chickens are currently being developed and trialed all across the world, namely by local innovators in sub-Saharan Africa. And of course, chickens produce eggs and can be consumed for their meat.
- Insects in general make a nutritious food source, and many experts have been rightly predicting that insect protein will become an important part of peoples' diets. Once again, insects are very good at utilizing recaptured agricultural and food wastes and converting them into something edible for humans.
The list goes on. These are but a few examples, and all of the methods I described do not require the dedication of substantial areas of land specifically for cultivating livestock feed. Any space required by animals using these methods are either minimal thanks to polyculture and efficient methods of space utilization or are able to be integrated into functional natural ecosystems without degrading them.
The point is that advocating for a plant based food system is short-sighted. Yes, industrialized animal agriculture is horrible, and we should be advocating for an end to it. But we should also be advocating for an end to the modern industrial agricultural system in general.
As we mobilize against industrialized animal agriculture and the system that encapsulates it, we must not fool ourselves into rejecting alternative animal agriculture methods that offer the promise of a sustainable food ecosystem that a plant-based food system cannot possibly hope to parallel in a million years. We also must not delude ourselves into believing that transitioning the whole of humanity to such a plant-based system would adequately address the dysfunctionality of our modern food infrastructure. There are many other problems with it when it comes to the social dimensions of what it would take to transition to a plant-based food system that I again am not going to discuss at this time, as I already went into enough detail for one post. But, in short, having the entire world go vegan means shooting ourselves in the foot. Last but certainly not least, let's be clear. If you otherwise shame people who care about the planet for not being vegan but refuse to support methods that can improve the efficiency of food production several times over, suck billions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere, and restore ecosystems that have been absolutely devastated by industrialized agriculture because you think they "infringe upon animal rights," you can at least stop weaponizing environmental issues to push your ideology when they were obviously not the priority for you to begin with.

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