{"id":2015,"date":"2015-07-22T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2015-07-22T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T02:20:00","slug":"2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Meat Actually be Eco-Friendly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a country that relies heavily on agriculture- all be it heavily swayed towards dairy rather than meat production, for now at least- this a question worth investigating.<br \/>\nI came across this article as part one of a series of three articles on the question<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Should we eat meat?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2015\/07\/Meat-in-supermarket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2016\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2015\/07\/Meat-in-supermarket-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"Meat in supermarket\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2015\/07\/Meat-in-supermarket-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2015\/07\/Meat-in-supermarket-487x300.jpg 487w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2015\/07\/Meat-in-supermarket.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Writer, Nathanael Johnson, author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/9781605290744?&amp;PID=25450\">All Natural: A Skeptic&#8217;s Quest to Discover If the Natural Approach to Diet, Childbirth, Healing, and the Environment Really Keeps Us Healthier and Happier<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0looks at this question from 3 perspectives:<br \/>\n\u2022 Environmental sustainability,<br \/>\n\u2022 Morality,<br \/>\n\u2022 Practicality.<br \/>\nIn the first of these articles he asks the question<br \/>\n<em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/food\/can-meat-actually-be-eco-friendly\/?utm_campaign=weekly&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Can meat be sustainable<\/a><\/span>?<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nYou may find some of what he discovered on this topic quite illuminating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a country that relies heavily on agriculture- all be it heavily swayed towards dairy rather than meat production, for now at least- this a question worth investigating. I came across this article as part one of a series of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,473,15,487,343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology-resources","category-for-teachers","category-general","category-plants-animals","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}