Lonewolves wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
A vegan diet is no better for the environment tbh. Not unless you grow your own food.
Er... Why do you think that?
You still need to consume a lot of energy to grow fruit and veg on an industrial scale, plus plastic used in packaging etc.
In fact
this article reports that a study in America has suggested that
more natural resources are needed to grow fruit and veg than meat. But of course it's more nuanced than that.
Only if you didn't read the study or its findings or any other findings of any other study whatsoever.
A vegan diet is obviously and by a fucking long way environmentally better (and healthier) than one rammed with a shitload of meat.
There are certain vegetables that provide a poor ratio of environmental impact to calorie production due to various requirements, though ALL return better than, say, beef.
There are also limits to it due to optimal usage of land; some is not as suited to growing food crops as much as it would being used for other things. But it would definitely make a huge impact environmentally if humans even cut 25% of meat from their diets.
That doesn't mean I'm not going to eat steaks. I am going to eat steak because it's delicious.