[quote]Local farms are still bad for the environment and still cruel for the animals, they're just smaller.
Why would we keep on using animals? Maybe it will end?[/quote]
Oh shit op you can't dispute local farms being Eco friendly because that UN report is based off of factory farming.
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The issue here is that for local farms to exist, factory farms also need to exist. If you removed every factory farm, there would suddenly be a massive shortage of supply to meet the demand, and we would need to replace these industrial gaps with more local farms -- effectively ceasing them to be [i]local[/i] farms. So, the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions -- or at least in the same vicinity, since the largest contributors are the land usage, enteric fermentation and manure, and fossil fuels.