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Yeah, I've seen those type of articles before. Crazy how people used to eat local, seasonal food, had a respect for the land and it's produce and things weren't so bad.
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For a long time we've had a lot of environmental problems stemming from how we cultivate food on our own shores. There's no denying that.
However, we're really ramping that up with the imported foods we're now eating. The irony here being that vegetarians and vegans, while promoting their diet as environmentally friendly, have also spearheaded the introduction of these new foodstuff's to our national cuisine.
The_Seldom_Killer
Although splurting out well-meaning but oversimplistic, unbalanced statements do make it easier to demonise someone else while avoiding considering their own impact.
While the article isn't entirely unbiased, it does point to some interesting and important key issues around resource demand for food production. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/news/healthy-foods-that-are-ruining-the-environment/