The Speciesist Implications of Agriculture

Besides animal products, you import more food than you export.

http://wits.worldbank.org/CountryPr...low/EXPIMP/Partner/all/Product/16-24_FoodProd
http://wits.worldbank.org/CountryPr...eFlow/EXPIMP/Partner/all/Product/01-05_Animal
http://wits.worldbank.org/CountryPr...ow/EXPIMP/Partner/all/Product/06-15_Vegetable

 

Well yeah, Norway is not really the best country suited for growing stuff, so it's obvious we wouldn't ever be a net exporter of that. But almost all of the food for sale here, is produced in Norway.

Not saying this is how other countries should do their agriculture though. Ukraine, Brazil and the US are in an extremely good position, due to their soil, seasons, and geography. Those countries are perfect for large scale industrialized agriculture. Norway is not. And we'll never be able to compete in price and production with those countries either.

Norway is still a net exporter of food though, when you're measuring by calories, rather than tonnes of food. Pretty much thanks to fishing. Although the fish farms are to a large degree reliant on Brazilian grain imports.

But my main point was how a lot species, even though most of us don't think of it, are reliant on human influence, so removing that human influence from the hybrid wild/domestic ecosystem in a cultural landscape, like Norway and Switzerland has a lot of, does not enhance biodiversity.