| Kirin_gaming said: Dropping meat from your diet completely is not a good decision,neither for health nor moral reasons. If your reasons are because of health concerns you have to find the right balance to achieve whatever your goal is(losing weight, gaining muscle or just feeling healthy in general.) If your reasons for doing it are ethical, you still shouldn't stop eating meat here's why. A year ago I contemplated eliminating meat from my diet.My deep love for animals made me get to the point where I would go into full brainstorming mode every time I saw a steak, and at that moment in my life the negatives far outweighed the positives; thus why I gave veganism serious thoughts. I started looking for information on veganism, I looked at vegan restaurants, and then for some reason I came by this article.That article really got me thinking; it made me realize that veganism is not the answer.But therein lied the real problem, if veganism was not the answer then what was? I then looked at this video that someone in the comment section provided there.I personally loved the idea of a self-sustainable farm, I had never heard of the concept, and I hope that I have one some day.[...] |
That article you linked to articulates one thing I strongly agree with, but then defeats its own argument. I strongly agree that environmentalists should be hugely concerned with agriculture and how it leads to deforestation, elimination of wild places, and sanitation of the land. It then defeats its own argument because gigantic (and growing) proportions of agriculture are to make animal feed for animal agriculture! Estimates vary, but 60-80% of the deforestation of the amazon is due to animal agriculture.
The author then goes into full-on misinformation mode by saying a vegan diet is less healthy than an omnivorous diet, which is ridiculous as there is no nutrient, nor any health benefit, that's unique to eating animal products. There's no recommended daily amount (RDA) of meat. Hell, animals get their nutrients from eating plants (or eating animals who've eaten plants). It appears that the author is either deeply misinformed, or choosing to attempt to misinform others.
I'm all for self-sustaining farms, backyard agriculture, etc. But that done with a vegan diet is even better than doing it with an omnivorous diet. Animals consume 38 to 500 times as much food, as we get from eating animal products. How is that sustainable?
