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Sacred Cow
Sacred Cow திட்டமிடப்பட்ட விபத்து
2024 · Film · short · 14 min
Directed by Chong Ya Hui
A cow appears in the dormitory, leaving the migrant workers confused. Amidst the events, Murthi, their lorry driver, discovers an uncanny connection between the cow and his best friend, Murugan.
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You do understand that's because it's not meant to - and it's not actually a valid comparison?
That's the point: the animals do the work of the processing and concentrating protein, fat, and nutrients/amino acids into a source that is arguably a perfect single food source for human consumption (high fat red meat, in this case); yes, your gut biome has to adapt for it, and yes, some lineages of humans will not have evolved with access to meat or benefit the same from having some or mostly meat in their diet like some other lineages of evolution.
It'd be more efficient to just consume sunlight, if possible, rather than waste it to the plants too - if maximizing for pure efficiency is the answer.
And let's also not be blindly virtuous about plants when looking at the primary and harmful method of agriculture also of monocultures. The Sacred Cow documentary also presents a good case for the benefit and need of cows, not in factory farms, for being a necessary part of the ecosystem/life cycle for soil health - healthy soil that is needed for plants; or do we ignore some facts and wait 50-200 years to see what disastrous problems we encounter because we don't include all arguments, perspectives, to manage from an all encompassing holistic view point?
Most of the things you listed sound like simple, indisputable issues everyone agrees about. This is actually not the case. I suggest researching into this a bit further. There is a documentary Sacred Cow and a book Being Ecological by T Morton, which are a good start. Also this article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/veganism-intensively-farmed-meat-dairy-soya-maize
Leaving aside the truth in these claims, if the article linked in this thread demonstrates that natural processes are more energy efficient than labwork, the choice in a clean energy starved society should be very simple. I can't imagine why we need to mine the metals, build the panels or wind turbines, build the lab buildings and the equipment just to get a chunk of nutrients of questionable quality (drenched in antibiotics).
The Sacred Cow documentary is worth watching which goes into detail of this cycle - including that a lot (most?) crops use animal manure for fertilizing, so you still need the animals.
There needs to be a proper discussion, debate, to break apart ideologies that are perpetuating misinformation or just simply not taking into account the whole ecosystem; the documentary Sacred Cow seemed to do a good job to explain it.
Please watch the documentary Sacred Cow which will counter your "more environmentally efficient" claim - as it's taking into account the holistic view of the full system of environmental processes.