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THE industrialized food system is approaching a crossroads. While it undoubtedly produces more than enough food, it comes up against ethical and environmental limits. The system, especially factory farming, causes great damage to the environment, biodiversity, water resources and animal welfare. It’s also ultimately self-destructive because the soils can’t support it any longer – by some estimates we’ve just 60 harvests remaining.
But environmental and ethical concerns sometimes come into conflict. As influential philosopher Peter Singer points out in our article “Peter Singer on Animal Rights, Octopus Farms and Why AI is Speciesist”, …