Answer to submitter. The important thing is what the agricultural land is used for
Maria Hörnell Writes that the government must quickly protect agricultural land with legislation. According to her, every year 750 hectares of agricultural land « disappears under asphalt and concrete », which she thinks is a finite resource that cannot be recreated. Hörnell believes that we cannot import foods that now under a possible war situation.
It would be a disaster if the government really protected Swedish agricultural land with legislation. I do not worry in the least because about a hundred hectares of agricultural land is built with logistics warehouses or villas because we according to the Swedish Board of Agriculture Has a total of 3 million hectares of agricultural land in Sweden.
Swedish agricultural land is an abomination, a crime against nature and should be built or even rather allowed to grow again with forest and populated by wildlife (read: biodiversity). Making such an overgrowth impossible by law would be incredibly stupid. We need more trees and more forests that bind carbon dioxide and offer habitats for animals.
For that event The fact that we were really isolated in some strange way is our agricultural land still useless without artificial fertilizers, fuel for machines and all other input goods and equipment that a modern agriculture needs. It is the possibility of free food trade that is the ultimate food safety.
If food safety is important for real, we should cut down on animal consumption and eat legumes instead. Animal maintenance is the most wasteful way to use agricultural land available.
Consider these figures: On a square meter you can According to the Swedish University of Agriculture Produce 130 grams of kidney beans, 2.1 kilos of potatoes or 290 grams of oatmeal – but only 7 grams of beef (natural work), 17 grams of beef (pasture -based) or 21 grams of beef (power feed).
According to the interest organization Swedish meat is used 70 percent of the field in Sweden to grow animal feed. It is a measure of how wasteful and lightly arable land is used in Sweden. In fact, you even use cereals to fire. It may be worth considering when you see news reports about people who starve that in Sweden we have so much food that we literally fire the food.
But the question is whether it is not worse to use cereals as animal feed. In an animal’s metabolism, between 85 and 98 percent of the energy energy lost.
Feel free to build villas and logistics warehouses on agricultural land, but for God’s sake it will be to eat beef! The government should immediately tax beef and dairy products so that we cut down on consumption. But it seems impossible as we traditionally always have governments and agricultural ministers who attend the National Farmers’ Association and Swedish Meat’s affairs as if they had no shame whatsoever in the body.
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