Quote Originally Posted by Shlup View Post
Then you clearly haven't put much thought or research into the topic. Which is fine--not everyone needs to be an expert on everything--just saying that the benefits of replacing animal proteins with vegetable proteins and with reducing the demand for meat farming aren't really arguable.
No I'm merely arguing the logic of agriculture and food production more than anything. The logic of not eating meat = better for the environment/planet is utterly flawed and wrong and you don't need to have studied geography past GCSE to know that if you overly farm a region of land you end up with a big old Dust Bowl effect and America found that out the bloody hard way in the early 20th century. It's also pretty explanatory at that level of Geography that farmers have to leave fields to go fallow and recover and that there are many different soil types some of which are not suitable for growing crops the simple maths of it is the Earth would be irreparably damaged by as little as a 33% global demand. Maybe not immediately no, but within 40 years yes. I thought the whole idea was to leave something for future generations not strip the soil bare of nutrients meaning it cannot and will not provide enough food to support the already growing and aging population.

Still if we wanted to go on to health issues. I've been vegetarian which is more than most people who disagree with it can say. I've been there and tried it for several years. There are issues with health that vegetarianism does not help with.