Veganism: Can it save our planet?

Veganism is a practice where the consumption of animals is forbidden. To many vegans the commodification of animals is inhumane, this means that the selling and slaughtering of animals and their byproducts are also prohibited, likewise wearing clothes and shoes made from animal skin is forbidden. In spite of the overwhelming pressures in one’s life, there are limitless reasons why a person would follow this heroic way of life. Some may choose to do it for the animals they love, some want to save the planet, some want to shed some weight and look good, some are in pursuit of perfect health, some are pursuing a spiritual path and some want all the aforementioned.

Whatever the case, vegans are seriously cool. Vegans are generally informed and know a thing or two about ‘this and that’, especially issues pertaining to the environment. Vegan philosophy has gone from subculture to mainstream. Furthermore, science has proven beyond reasonable doubt that it is economically and environmentally unfeasible to sustain a world where we eat animals and wear them for opulence status. I’ve read once, where it said that “it takes 16 times more water to produce animal protein than it does to produce plant protein”. That’s the premise of this dialogue. Statistically speaking this is clearly one of the reasons we cannot use our precious resources sparingly and responsibly. The urgency to refrain from eating meat demands everyone’s attention today. A couple of years back you might have thought selfishly about this topic and got away with it, but according to the United Nations Priority Products and Materials report, we are far better off eating plants than eating meat. Eating animals has dire consequences for our bodies and environment. In the year 2013 alone natural disasters have displaced over 22 million people. If this is not scary, nothing will ever scare you!

Common Sense

Even with the already known observable adverse effects that minerals processing has on the environment, the so-called meat farming model has a greater negative impact on the environment. Did you hear that? You are literally doing more harm to the environment than DeBeers digging up dust and displacing the earth (they are literally displacing the earth).

Water pollution in a rural stream due to runoff from farming activity in New Zealand

By Alan Liefting - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4764208

Animal products cause more damage than [producing] construction minerals such as sand or cement, plastics or metals. Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as fossil fuels”. –Priority Producers and Materials.

Carnism: Logic of the meat eater is depressing

We erode ecologies that we can never ever rebuild
We cut down acres of forests that took millions of years to evolve and
We use all that hijacked land to farm crops that we forcefully feed to fatten the animals that are going to end up as burgers and kebabs.

Capitalists are stealing nature from you, its done in the name of DEVELOPMENT. These bankers and social engineers are building world-class cities, if this excites you, you have just the appropriate amount of brainwash dosage as prescribed by the ‘MAN’. Who will occupy these places when everyone is wiped out by a mega tsunami or another mishandled man-made virus? We have directly and indirectly displaced life and peoples in the quest for vanity. Today, the average household has enough food than they ever needed but malnutrition is prevalent. We live to eat, we no longer eat to live. There is a HUGE difference there. For instance, there are many minerals and vitamins that make up the human body. We need to be replenishing our bodies as we use up the food/fuel that energizes our bodies. Every time we indulge should be an opportunity to bring back what was taken out of the body. Foolishly, we have depleted the earth’s natural resources that sustain life. Just like food, we have more information going through our brains than ever before, but we are so hollow and miseducated than ever. Humans do not need to eat animals. Why? Animals source their minerals and vitamins from plants, a man can simply eat plants and live a healthy long life too. All herbivorous animals are fattened by plants alone. The largest mammal on land is naturally vegan/vegetarian, depending on whose zoo they are enslaved in. They do not need to eat junk to maintain their bulky bodies. So does this mean grass has fat for the cow? Look it up.

Here is a list of common dietary elements your body needs

Vegan Philosophy:

Veganism is both the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products, particularly in diet and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals. A follower of either the diet or the philosophy is known as a vegan.

Vegan etymology:

1944, from vegetable (n.) + -an; coined by English vegetarian Donald Watson (1910-2005) to distinguish those who abstain from all animal products (eggs, cheese, etc.) from those who merely refuse to eat the animals.

Carnism etymology:

Carnism is a concept used in discussions of humanity’s relation to other animals, defined as a prevailing ideology in which people support the use and consumption of animal products, especially meat.

People to know: Donald Watson coined the term veganism

I was surrounded by interesting animals. They all “gave” something: the farm horse pulled the plow, the lighter horse pulled the trap, the cows “gave” milk, the hens “gave” eggs and the cockerel was a useful “alarm clock” – I didn’t realise at that time that he had another function, too. The sheep “gave” wool. I could never understand what the pigs “gave”, but they seemed such friendly creatures – always glad to see me.