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Originally Posted by Captain Snooze
While I don't hold the same moral issue with killing plants as I do animals there is a compromise (of course) with the vegan outlook. Food plants require farming, farms destroy native growths so while vegans might hold the moral/ethical high ground they do not get off without some blame/guilt.
Tl,dr: too many people.
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You should also watch the video because he addresses this fallacy too.
The vast majority of the crops we produce and land we cultivate is produced to feed livestock. On top of that, there is a large amount of land that is set aside as pasture land. The land that we would need to set aside to feed humans plants would be far less than the land we set aside to feed animals plants, so that we can later consume animals.
On top of that, as he mentions, the slow conversion of the population to veganism would slowly reduce the population of livestock. While he doesn't address climate change, this would reduce the production of methane. While methane doesn't make up the majority of greenhouse gas emissions compared to CO2, methane traps heat 30+ times greater than CO2, so in fact, methane is the more egregious gas. Between enteric production and manure, around 3-4% of greenhouse gases come from livestock, but because methane traps heat at 30+ times CO2, that production has a greater effect than the CO2. The big difference is methane is short lived, but CO2 is more longer lived in the atmosphere, so the effects of CO2 production has much greater implications for the future.
