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Farmers who graze sheep under solar panels say it improves productivity. So why don’t we do it more? (grist.org)
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[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Surely there exists a space between us breeding, mass murdering and torturing domestic animals with cruel factory farming on the one hand, and wiping them off the face of the earth on the other.

Wouldn't you say that both extremes constitute disastrous consequences for huge parts of the entire world's biosphere?

[–] vxx@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Are we still talking about sheep that grass all day under the shade of solar panels?

Even the staunchest hippie wears whool.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I don't think we are - the previous comment is talking about the total genocide of all domesticated animals, which seems beyond sheep under solar panels.