Do you think vegan, vegetarian, and plant-based diets are good things?

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[–]Nombre27 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No.

Look up about topsoil, how cattle/animals regenerate the soil, and how monocropping ruins the soil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vegetarian_Myth

The problem is that we're not living in harmony with the environment. We literally have an economy built on the broken window fallacy.

Check out Savory and soil regeneration. They use

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfTZ0rnowcc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vQW8Tl_KLc

Silvopasture is particularly interesting. These kind of agricultural techniques run counter to the industrial ag system that's currently in place.

If you want to have high quality people, you need high quality nutrients, i.e. not vegetarian.

Vegetable proteins have shitty bioavailability and poor nutrients scores. It's literally better to feed animals these kinds of foods as they turn it into something edible of higher quality.

https://img.ifunny.co/images/3f6f32434b1fd58b11ee4d3203042ef2f5a79629e220fc0bb863c099bb9e2703_1.jpg

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    [–]Nombre27 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I don't have an exact answer to that but let's say it does. It is a fact that it creates a product of incomparable nutritional quality when it comes to protein. Just look up bioavailability and nutritional data comparing animal vs. vegetable protein.

    That being said, animal farming doesn't have to take up any resources that aren't renewable.

    It's nonsense that it's inherently unsustainable and that critique is more applicable to industrial agriculture, which vegetable proteins will also demand.

    You have to try and make it as apples-to-apples as possible for a proper comparison, i.e. land yields, energy input, nutrition quality, etc.

    We'd be all healthier if silage was fed to farm animals instead of humans.