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Plants Really Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard Them Until Now
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Vegans consume fewer plants than anyone else. It takes a LOT of plants to raise a cow, pig, or chicken. From an economic point of view, meat is a way of refining mountains of cheap, plentiful, safe plant products into a scarce, harmful and addictive luxury product. This comes up a lot, you'd be amazed how many plants rights activists your average vegan runs into.
…addictive?
Addictive like water and air are addictive.
Wouldn't you need to decimate the population of cows, pigs, and chickens in order to reduce their environmental impact? This argument always invokes an image of Thanos wiping out half the universe in order to 'save' it, but the people making this argument never seem to be receptive to acknowledging this point and just hand wave this step away.
the same plants that are being fed to animals are the plants that we eat too. animals are mostly said crop seconds or parts of plants the people can't or won't eat.
Vegans: we'll have only a little vegetable cruelty, as a treat.
Whatever keeps the high horse fed.
You're going to have to unpack this a bit more for me.
Edit: Ohhhh, you're another one of those plant rights activists. Buddy, I eat plants for breakfast. You know what? Now I'm going to eat twice as many plants, just because it upsets you.
Lol your reading comprehension.
Oh no, you're not better than anyone! Tragic.
Assholes like wiping shit off. Which is what the block button does to you.
Dumbest person on the internet today award goes to….. YOU!!! Congratulations 🎉🏆🎉
Either that's true, and I can't read your comment anyways, or it's not and you're a dipshit.
Real classy of you to do the toddler thing of sticking your fingers in your ear and going "la la la I can't hear you". (It'll be an honor to share a spot on your block list with these other two fellas.)
I challenge you to make an appetizing meal out of the plants (and specific cultivars!) used as animal feed.
Not a vegan: remember we raise a lot of these plants just as feed. If the reason to feed disappeared, so would the vast quantity of “not tasty” plants.
https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/50901500/px-based_v3.2/educ-matrls/pdfs/HO_what-cows-eat.pdf
No we do not...this is bullshit propagated by vegans. You cannot eat the shit cattle do.
Yes, but I can grow human food on the same plots of land.
....what part of the food grown is for humans and the shit you cannot eat from it is fed to cattle do you not get? You also cannot grow most food where cattle graze, as it's to rocky or hilly or has to little water for it other than grass...
Okay.
Step 1: feed them to a cow Step 2: you now have a fluffy pet cow Step 3: profit