Ok this will be a somewhat depressive rant but

I cannot stress enough how illogically insane the current public conversations surrounding agriculture and especially animal agriculture are.

I'd go apeshit if I could, bc internet searches and manipulative documentaries are not and never will hold up against the environmentally-and-socially-traumatizing stuff that we have to gruesomly study and write in an academic setting, all the while being made to feel responsible for it bc this is our field. We have the data pretty much shoved down our throats and my study material is 65%-75% statistics and graphs and charts and I really miss reading blocks of texts some weeks.

unlike some gloriously dense folks trying to eradicate entire fields of agriculture bc they made up shit and believed it, we have to read through dozens of reports calculating the brutal starvation of millions and the further destruction of the environment if our field doesn't scrape together crumbles of miracle after miracle

I am, quite frankly, a bit envious of my old self

It was so much easier to pretend that the primary struggle of agricultural engineering was scientific hurdles and not

1) a lack of funding

2) the lack of tools to judicially strike those that withhold money they can give away so so easily for measures desperately needed

3) sheer human idiocy wrapped up in a weird brand of genuine compassion that totally misses the mark

There are people loudly posting about what direction agriculture has to globally take (such as 'let's eradicate animal agriculture') bc they think that'll fix everything, but in my head, like four, five calculations later, I can fuzzily make out famines and massive degredation of entire regions and I'm just...

i'm so tired man

i'm so so tired

Dude I just wish it was depleting resources and climate change we had to worry about and not a handful of self-absorbed humans, ya know, like these aren't things I want but they are at least somewhat easier to deal with than whatever this is

I just really really want internet personas to stay tf out of the agricultural sciences