True, true. I am still proud of being vegan and not contributing to that part of animal violence. What's more, there is hardly any or no food shortage in the world. The distribution is at issue here; so much food being thrown away. You bring awareness about this, and for that I thank you!
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Also, a huge amount of food is thrown away at the sorting and packing planets.
It is estimated that half of the produce that comes up through Nagales (Mexico/The US) is thrown away while being sorted there.
I wouldn't call vegan a better diet when trying to avoid animal violence. There is still huge amount of animals killed when tilling farm land. Plants are also sentient beings with feelings too. Also, being a vegetarian or vegan doesn't "save" any animals. It just means less animals are grown. And if everyone turned vegan/tarian, half of the world would starve; we need animals to eat grass so that we can have food.
I find the better way is to raise the animals yourself. With good animal husbandry you are giving as much as your receive and the circle of life is complete. Also, with good husbandry, and not allowing over grazing, the animal manure helps to rejuvenate the soil. Making the whole system even better.
Look up Joel Salatin of Polyface farms and see what regenerative farming can really be like. His books about growing chickens in a chicken tractor is really good. Even if you decide to go vegan/ovarian. Free range eggs are so much better.
Thank you @ericwoelk my partner is vegan and I am thinking about it, I don't know if could quit my addiction to honey tho :)
Yes there is a lot of things to be said about the failing distribution system, the food chain as a whole is flawed by design it seems.
Thanks for the feedback and welcome back from your adventures, will we get read all about it soon?
Ah, yes, honey is quite a good addiction :D Though I have now found a quite as tasty alternative: dark agave syrup! Mmm!
I will not post about my adventures in Indonesia, but you are welcome to read them and see photos and videos on Facebook, namely the group "Xplore Trevianum Indonesië '17"
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the sad part is that's it's mostly the people to blame, basically they drove the little business out of business, because they like cheap prices, they sue the bigger chains, that and regulations over food kind of require food to be thrown away. It's a sad place for sure, it's just making waste of good food, but then again it's being overproduced in the first place and rather than stored for future use it's used to produce profits and basically given to blind people that only see color but lack the deeper view of how it's grown, where, by who, at what cost, so on. I'm a proponent of food been grown locally, housed and stored rather than transported, but that goes against the market principles of sell to the highest bidder and disregard the lowly person, because he won't be a good investment. I live in a place where food is being sent to other places and people here are basically starving because they have to pay premium for goods, while they have to sell their produce cheap, so other resellers can resell to other resellers and make money someplace else.