Manitoba Co-operator

Letters: Anti-meat rhetoric too simplistic

I read with dismay the recent article, “Meat and dairy gobble up subsidies worldwide,” in your op-ed section, January 20, 2022. Mr. Springmann states there that agricultural subsidies prop up a food system that is neither healthy nor sustainable referring specifically to those that go to the meat and dairy production sector. He advocates shifting

Letters: More harm than good

I am writing in response to an article in the July 8, 2021 issue of your paper titled, ‘How plant-based diets could help prevent the next Covid-19.’ What Mr. Boyer says about reducing contact with animals to prevent zoonotic diseases is true. However, his suggestion that we do this by consuming less meat and more