Childhood indoctrination

[littleendian]

Two approaches are interlinked. We are wasting so much land to produce plant-based food to use to fatten up animals, who shit out 85% of it. Let's feed our food directly to humans, rather than filtering it through animals whose populations are artificially increased for that purpose. Much of the deforestation today is to make way for more and more cattle grazing, as well as crops that will be fed to enslaved animals. 80% of the world's soy is fed to animals!

Well, but that would require that many people go back into agriculture because it is much simpler to just grow huge mono-cultures of rather robust but inadible (for humans) soy and then funnel it through cattle which are then eaten by humans. If you would want to use these same lands to grow vegetables digestible by humans then a lot more thought would've to be put and a lot more skill would be involved.

That would be great, just saying it's not quite as easy as simply diverting the flow of soy/corn/grain from cattle to humans. That's information I gathered in a discussion here on these forums, so kudos to atheistforums.org!

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Both approaches are necessary together, that is, both welfarism and abolition

Arguing with others rarely every convinces anyone of veganism, but I know where the zeal comes from... I think you might find consolation in this: You're already doing a huge part of what you as an individual can do for a more humane planet. Others will follow a good ideal when they see it and when they are ready, all the arguments in the world are not going to convince someone who's hasn't already got the seed in him.