Thats not a lot of money in the scheme of things. Vegans do themselves an injustice worth more than that just by being insufferable and preachy.
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Way to smear a whole bunch of people you've never met. It looks like that media budget was well spent on convincing people like you.
While there may well be benefits to eating a vegan diet, Vegans do a crazy good job of tarnishing its own reputation. You are all so aggressive and elitist. Never met a group with more judgemental bitchy hostiles.
It must suck for the 'normal' moderate vegans.
To really make a difference, promoting veganism should be about encouraging informed, balanced choices without shaming those who aren't fully on board.
Can you see why its so cheap to market vegans under a shitty light. Look at the jumped up little twats who replied.
Looks like you're the one posting bitching hostile judgement here.
Totally agree with your first point, at least. These companies spend way more to influence legislators and regulators and to try to pay less taxes. $8 million is an afterthought to them. Tyson alone had $53 billion in revenue in 2022.
Found the Omni.
Let me eat my meat and don't let me know it causes suffering! I do not want to be aware of the consequences of my actions!
Found the ill-informed.
I run my own homestead buddy. I produce my own food and I provide near everything for my family from the land we live on. Our animals don't suffer. I run an off grid system to provide my own power and water. I ride electric. My entire family collectively has less negative impact on the planet than you alone, and I'd say we have more awareness of our environment than you'll ever have the capacity to get your closed mind to see. Go chomp on some celery.
You don't produce 100% of your own food though. I would assume you aren't even getting 25%.
About an acre per person for growing non grains, than another 3 to 4 per person for growing grains. About a quarter acre for processing and long term storage.
But then we have to factor in the animals. A cow eats About 16 pounds of food for every 1 pound a human eats.
No human is capable of the self sufficiency you are wanting us to believe you have.
Read the fucking rules of the community before you post, jackass.
Dont shit the bed, piss-ant.
So you didn't feel like you should understand the community you're participating in? Or are you so egotistical that you think you have something new to say on the topic that we haven't heard before that gives you the right to ignore the rules? Either way, ew.
Ooh boy, I haven't seen a new pasta drop in a while!
It's funny how every carnist who wanders in here explicitly to bash vegans seems to have a BS story like this, but they also have never talked about it in any other context like a normal person might. Statistically, 99% of flesh eaters buy their flesh from the supermarket (or their mom does, as the case may be).
This reeks of old reddit "As a black man..." thinly veiled racist comments. People lying on the internet is a time honoured tradition.
I gotta say, whether or not your intentions are positive, your presentation is confrontational and petty. I'm not vegan or vegetarian, btw
This isn't a place for the reasonable, you should just let them have their little echo chamber
Reasonable, you say? Using current technology, the world does not have enough land and fresh water for everybody to eat red meat and dairy, even in smallish quantities. If you are able to do that, it is only because others are - currently - not doing it.
Assuming you agree that it's important that we have a livable environment, then to be consistent with your own values - to be reasonable - you're going to have to argue with the facts cited above. That will be a tough climb, but you appreciate reason so we'll be here to help if you need it.
See what I mean?
Never
No, I don't.
I guess you're pivoting to another argument, the one about vegans being sanctimonious, although that's just a guess.
But you mentioned reason, so I answered with reason. BTW (and it shouldn't count if we're being reasonable), I am not a vegan.
no one cares. no one asked.
Cool story bro. Now calculate how many people do it like you claim to do.
And now go on caressing your animals to their death :)
The question I like to ask is how many COULD do it like them.
Let’s assume everyone would want to and have to know how and nothing preventing them and you’re fine with killing animals.
How much land would it take?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200127-how-a-vegan-diet-could-affect-your-intelligence
Its a good read but there are some long words in there.
but there are some long words in there.
It's kinda funny you call vegans insufferable then write so condescendingly. I'm not sure if you actually bothered to read the article you linked, or if it was just the first thing that kinda validated your feelings when you searched Google.
Let's take a second to look at some of the ingenious methodology you've linked us to:
Instead, the only research that comes close [to directly comparing cognitive function of different diets] involved the reverse. It was conducted on 555 Kenyan schoolchildren, who were fed one of three different types of soup – one with meat, one with milk, and one with oil – or no soup at all, as a snack over seven school terms. They were tested before and after, to see how their intelligence compared. Because of their economic circumstances, the majority of the children were de facto vegetarians at the start of the study.
So, the test is to feed one group soup with animal flesh, one group soup with dairy and the other soup with oil or no soup at all!
There was no effort to use foods with similar nutritional profiles to make a valid comparison, so it's already not a study of plant vs. animal based foods, it's a study of how different macronutrient profiles (or no nutrients!) affect intelligence.
This is why it's hard to take carnist seriously when they try and debate vegans. Both science and ethical consistency go against them every time.
Omfg bro. Didn't you read rule 5 community guidelines.
(or no nutrients!) affect intelligence.
Absolutely not ok to do that imho. The link between breakfast and learning outcomes in primary schools is extremely well-documented.
That study is borderline unethical.