Russia and Ukraine

[Pat Mustard]

I think I may have found a plan to end the war in Ukraine, and that is that everyone in Europe becomes a vegan.

Really. Europe gives Putin 1 billion dollars every day for oil, so if everyone in Europe becomes a vegan they can turn all the food for livestock into ethanol to run cars on it, and thus they won't need to buy Russian oil and Russia won't have money to fund the war.

Actually wouldn't work, because you'd need to use that land (quite a lot of which is actually unsuitable for growing crops on an industrial scale) to grow crops. Biofuels as is are actually a big threat to food security. In the US as of 2021 51.5 million acres are already devoted to growing crops for fuel, and that's not including the forests being grown for wood burning electricity generation (a figure I don't have to hand).

Biofuels, even in the short term, have no viability.