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Sun, 25 Jun 2006

Permaculture Author Bill Mollison's Strange and Misinformed View of a Vegetarian Diet

It's been two days instead of the very next day, as promised here on 6.23.06, but I am back to talk about Bill The Permaculture Guy's misinformed views about vegetarian diet. Reference: Chapter 2.7 of his book ' Permaculture, A Designers Manual the section titled 'Pyramids, food webs, growth and vegetarianism'. As usual, I got carried away with my own cleverness, and my post ended up way too long, even for me. Let me just give you a peek, then you can go read the whole article if you've a mind.

I greatly admire Bill Mollison - his book is an invaluable resource as an agricultural usability manual for Planet Earth. His expertise is awesome. His views on vegetarian diet, on the other hand, are a cop-out, as he clearly knows next-to-nothing about vegetarianism. And, he apparently has the typical meat-eater's belief that if you don't eat meat, you'll starve.

Like many other meat-eating enviros, Mollison rationalizes eating meat as part of a normal human diet, which can be easily accommodated by permaculture activities on 4% of the arable land on our world - the percentage he gives as the ideal proportion of cultivated land in permaculture. His arguments are full of contradictions and misinformation.

Read the SV article: Permaculture Expert's View of Vegetarianism