Cool Fact: Vegans consume a total of less plants than omnivores. Animals eat plants, so if you eat them, you’re eating an animal plus everything it ate to grow up.
those damn vegans!
Submitted 8 months ago by bucketofcandyfloss@thelemmy.club to [deleted]
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TheVeganWerewolf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
jettrscga@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I absolutely agree, eating meat should count as eating at least one salad too.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 8 months ago
Take that, doctor.
cymbal_king@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Animals on average convert about 10% of the mass they eat into their own body mass.
bstix@feddit.dk 8 months ago
So when a lion dies and turns to grass, the antilopes only get back 10% of the grass they ate to make meat for the lion.
Circle of life, my ass. More like a trickle down pyramid scheme.
verysoft@kbin.social 8 months ago
Only a matter of time before plant-based alternatives fully take over from meat. Meat farming is not sustainable, as you mention all the land used to farm food for animals could be used to just farm more food for us directly.
We just have to get rid of the stigma around plant-based "meat".
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
At this point it isn’t so much the stigma as it is the price for a lot of us. If it was the same or cheaper than regular meat prices in my area I would buy it instead.
Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It is worth mentioning that the types of plants that people and animals eat are different. Humans can’t digest cellulose and hemicellulose where herbivores can.
Dasus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, we can’t really eat grass, but thinking that most cattle nowadays actually graze is… inaccurate, to put it mildly.
Factory-farmed cattle are almost always fed grain made of up corn and soy, both of which are completely fine for humans to eat, in case someone was unaware.
Producing 1kg of beef takes about 25kg of feed.
philm@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
I’d agree if there would ba a “could” in there or something. The reality is that a lot of soy (that humans can digest) is fed to animals…
Leviathan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, instead of using that land to grow monocultured grass, we could use it to grow plants we do eat. It’s not like we would keep growing grass there and say “Darn! We can’t eat this grass!”, we wouldn’t need to plant plants we don’t eat in the first place.
ikidd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Except 95% of what an animal eats ends up back in the soil as manure.
hamid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hi, what is it like to be stupid? I really would like your expert opinion on this
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
This seems like a dubious line of reasoning. It’s like making the claim that if you eat moss your net water consumption is lower than if you eat the leaves off an oak tree because of all the water it takes to grow. I mean I guess it’s sort of true but it’s also sorta weird. The argument is basically eat closer to the bottom of the food chain and the younger the better, but I don’t think you’re going to be happy if people eat more puppies and veal…
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
So it’s about efficiency. A given organism is going to have a particular conversion ratio in terms of how much mass/calories/nutrients whatever you’re measuring it has to take in to increase it’s own content an equivalent amount.
Since the vast quantity of food consumed by animals goes into energy rather than body mass they’re very inefficient. Particularly larger creatures like cows which “waste” (obviously not from the cow’s perspective) that energy breathing, moving, pumping blood, digesting, feeling and so on.
ignotum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Plants make oxygen, animals make poop
If the vegans win then we’ll no oxygen to breathe, only poopThis is the future vegans want
thefartographer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’d agree with you, that also means more farts. And farts are funny. Do you hate comedy?
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’ve been acclimatizing to a fart-only lifestyle by micro dosing on e-girl farts I buy online.
80% of my oxygen and 30% of my calories I get from farts now.
Random_internet_user@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Comedy means laugh and laugh means consuming more air . Do you wanna help vegans win ?
tekila@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s it, now I’m gonna go eat twice as many legumes as I usually eat just because of this post!
toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’ll never stop us, mwahahahaha!
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Dammit, who ate the fucking forest again?!
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
vegan btw
chetradley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Based and B12-pilled
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
You don’t need B12 pills, you just need to touch grass (with your tongue)
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
omnomed@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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psycho_driver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Reminder to keep eating lamb and cows because they want to eat all the grass on the planet leaving only desert behind.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 8 months ago
It’s funny, but obligatory cattle rearing requires more crop fields to sustain than simply eating the crops ourselves.
Random_internet_user@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Goddamit vegans
tygerprints@kbin.social 8 months ago
I have to laugh whenever vegans claim they don't eat living things. Since when are plants and vegetables not living things? They aren't conscious in the same way people are but they do "live," digest, respirate, and reproduce, and some of them have elaborate networks of roots that they use to send chemical signals to each other.
Anyway, not to knock vegans, some of my friends and family are and they seem to be doing great. Just, whenever I'm eating good chicken wings, or ribs, or any meat with a bone in it, I certainly feel glad to have that "carnivorous" side.
chetradley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve literally never heard a vegan claim to not eat any living thing. We know plants are alive lol.
Leeker@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Since when have plants been alive? This is news to me. Next thing you are going to tell me is that plants also crave Brawndo.
tygerprints@kbin.social 8 months ago
And I'm not trying to say vegans are dumb or ignorant about that. Just that I've had the experience of some of them seeming surprised and disagreeing that plants are living things.
tygerprints@kbin.social 8 months ago
Funny - that is an about face from what vegans used to claim.
execia@lemmy.today 8 months ago
[deleted]tygerprints@kbin.social 8 months ago
Every vegan I've talked to says they don't eat living things. Literally - every one of them.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
“I don’t eat anything that casts a shadow.”
“Don’t plants cast shadows?”
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Honestly we can’t stop vegans. What we need to do is imprison in a giant chamber that artificially grows grass
udon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes, sounds awesome! And let’s embed that chamber with a massive near-vacuum, so if you try to leave it, you suffocate. Also, it’s a giant, spinning blob in the middle of nowhere, with a gravity center at its core so you physically can’t even get away from it without a massive propulsion system and then what - go to the next random blob that offers nothing? Haha, I like your idea!
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 8 months ago
NEMATODES!!!
fidodo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sigh, I find this too sad to be funny
Alsjemenou@lemy.nl 8 months ago
My uncle has a forest that he really loves.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 8 months ago
I’m not vegan because I give a fuck about animals. I’m vegan because I hate plants.
Green dudes have had it too good for too long.
YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 8 months ago
They are out there lording their massive advantage in cumulative biomass over us. Fucking plants. I can’t wait to eat some tomorrow.
joostjakob@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As pointed out above, if you hate plants, you should eat as much meat as possible. Every kilo of meat represents at least ten kilos of plants eaten by the animal.
chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
That doesn’t spark joy.
I don’t want some other animal taking my Freudian pleasure of voring a verdant, fleshy succulent. Feeling the crunching snap of brutality as an innocent plant is ground between my glistering molars. The swallow, the mulched, peppery bolus perestalted down a wet, hungry, pulsing oesophegus. The conversion of what was once a marvel of evolution; a being that could harness the power of a living star to grow and thrive; into fodder for my next bowel movement. From stoma to stoma.
This is not some cool, by-the-numbers optimisation. This is raw, visceral, hungry cruelty.
The old adage can be given greater, poetic specificity. Revenge is a dish best served cold. And it is a salad.
Vegoon@feddit.de 8 months ago
Fuck plants, all my homies hate plants!
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Me playing remnant