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Ontario's Greenbelt is losing animal farmers.

Ontario's Greenbelt is the largest protected area of its kind in the world. But animal agriculture is disappearing from the area so rapidly that it is having a negative impact on the local food system, according to University of Guelph researchers who are charting the exodus of livestock farmers from the area.
The culprits, researchers say, are a tag-team duo: encroaching urbanites repulsed by the less romantic aspects of animal farming and environmentalists who are winning a policy battle over whether to “pickle-jar” protected land or farm it.

Typical of course of both Canadian urbanites (still largely touchy-feely green) and the greenies.

Labels: environmentalism, locavorism

posted by Alan Adamson @ 8:37 AM