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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

EDIT: here's a source for that figure

Previous studies have estimated that 73% of all antimicrobials sold globally are used in animals raised for food

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7766021/pdf/antibiotics-09-00918.pdf

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

what is this Frankenstein's meme

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Vegan products still use land and farm equipment won't stop for any mouse or insect in the way

Farmers also shoot pests that eat their crops

A vegan diet is not sustainable for the average person. Ex-vegans vastly outnumber current vegans, of which the majority have only been vegan for a short time. Common reasons for quitting are: concerns about health (23%), cravings (37%), social problems (63%), not seeing veganism as part of their identity (58%). 29% had health problems such as nutrient deficiencies, depression or thyroid issues, of which 82% improved after reintroducing meat.

Many environmental studies that vegans use are heavily flawed because they were made by people who have no clue about agriculture, e.g. by the SDA church. A common mistake is that they use irrational theoretical models that assume we grow crops for animals because most of the plant weight is used as feed, The reality is that 86% of livestock feed is inedible by humans. They consume forage, food-waste and crop residues that could otherwise become an environmental burden. 13% of animal feed consists of potentially edible low-quality grains, which make up a third of global cereal (not total crop) production. All US beef cattle spend the majority of their life on pasture and upcycle protein even when grain-finished (0.6 to 1). Hence, UN FAO considers livestock crucial for food security and does not endorse veganism at all.

Vegans have never been able to define or measure that their diet causes less deaths/suffering than an omnivorous one. They are ignorantly contributing to an absolute bloodbath of trillions of zooplankton, mites, worms, crickets, grasshoppers, snails, frogs, turtles, rats, squirrels, possum, raccoons, moles, rabbits, boars, deer, 75% of insect biomass, half of all bird species and 20,000 humans per year. Two grass-fed cows are enough to feed someone for a year and, if managed properly, can restore biodiversity. The textbook vegan excuse where they try to blame plant agriculture on animals and use only mice deaths, fabricated feed conversion ratios of 20:1 and a coincidentally favourable per-calorie metric is nonsense because:

The majority of animal feed is either low-maintenance forage or a by-product that only exists because of human food harvest.

It literally shows that grass-fed beef kills fewer animals.

[–] Lavitz@lemmings.world 4 points 5 months ago

What are you going on about bruh??? Did you read the study? It was about antibiotics. Triggered much?

[–] Sizzler@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago

This link simply shows what rubbish you are talking. https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass

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