#and currently has safety zones for loggerheaded shrikes on said renewed native pature lands

[feral--bog--witch]

Actually I'm not.

Mainly because the studies you've cited are only taking into account how the agriculture industry is CURRENTLY. Which is a capitalistic hellscape that overproduces and overconsumes, which I clearly stated is causing our biggest planetary issues.

Yah, when you have 10k cattle on a tiny plot of land and you are trucking them in roughage from gianormous single crop farms multiple times a week, where those farms are pumping fertilizer and pesticides into the earth thousands of gallons at a time to keep up with not just your needs but the needs of 100 other factory farms like yours, its probably better to go with the vegan alternative.

But when you buy half a beef off of Maggie Roe who has 10 cows on 600 acres of pasture grassland to feed them and 200 acres of natural alfalfa land she bales for feed, as well as get your eggs from her free range chickens, your environmental impact is VASTLY smaller than going the vegan route.

As it is, vegan or not, we over consume and over produce at a rate that is completely unsustainable for our planet. You could switch everyone in this world to a vegan or plant based diet and it WOULD NOT CHANGE ANYTHING. It would simply give us NEW problems because we overconsume and overproduce enough as it is and switching wouldn't fix that.

To have a fully vegetarian world we would have to make more monoculture farms which destroys native wildlife habitats and disrupts ecosystems, as well as use massive amounts of fertilizer and pesticides that will contaminate the ground water and affect wildlife again. That isnt even mentioning the issues with running giant ass combines that suck fuel back like it cheap whiskey on a $1 a shot night, as well as transporting everything to get where it is. This isnt even mentioning the problems with soy and palm oil production.

You can't simply remove the animals from the diet and say you have fixed the problem because you haven't. You have just shifted it to new sectors. A lot of the problems that come with the agriculture industry currently, especially on the feed side, would STILL be there, except it would be shifted to growing things for human consumption instead of for animals. Which doesn't fix the problems we currently have in those sectors, it keeps them the same. New ball game. Same players.

And I will definitely keep eating local. I will take my 12 grassfed cows on over 600 acres of restored native pasture land, my eggs I get from our completely free range chickens, and the wool we get from our 30 head of free range sheep over being vegan. Why? Because our environmental impact is utterly insignificant. We dont grow crops, all our bales come from natural alfalfa and clover fields, we rarely grain feed anything and if we do its bought from a farmer close to us who only farms 50 acres of it for animal consumption, and we never allow the pasture land to be over grazed and rotate the animals frequently.

Is there money in what we do? Sure. Is it a lot? Fuck no. We break even every year basically. We love our animals, most of them are third or fourth generation from animals we rescued or bought from shitty people to rescue, and we don't do it for the money, we never have.

But keep thinking that if it makes you happy. Just remember, Im fully stating that how we are running our food sectors is completely unsustainable due to capitalistic over production and over consumption. Nothing will change, even if every single person on earth switched to a plant based diet tomorrow, because capitalism is the inherent problem we are having. THAT is what is causing the decline of our planet and we can't fix it until we destroy the systems in place that allow it to thrive.

unpopular opinion; peta is right about bts. claiming to care about anti violence, climate change, and health but then promoting fucking mcnuggets because you got paid some good cash for it is embarrassingly weak morals. you people just don’t wanna feel judged about your own actions, and you can’t handle your precious baby boys having their actions criticised lol. mass amounts of mcnuggets are being bought by bts fans, that’s a shit ton of demand equaling more mistreated, murdered hens, more environmental damage, and encouraging terrible health practices for the sake of ‘supporting’ your favourite group. you don’t have to buy everything your favourite group is paid to promote!!!