We grow plants, many more are not automatically fed.
True, but I think they should be ;)
That would be called politics. (the politics of why some are fed and not others) And has very little to do with how much meat we eat, and a lot more to do with the state of geopolitical events.
Not all plant matter is viable for human consumption. Humans can’t eat grass. By feeding it to cows we can harvest nutrients from parts of the earth that are not always viable for human crops.
We could always switch those for viable crops and it would be more efficient.
This is where we disagree on this point. I would say it’s not always possible to grow human-edible crops in all land areas that we currently grow animals crops or generally have animal herds. I can’t prove that over the internet, but consider climates not ideal for human food, dry climate, wet climate, rocky mountainous regions…
Vegetarians and vegans are healthier and general with lower mortality rate, lower bmi, lower risk of heart disease.
There was a recent meta-study confirming that meat has no link to any of those.
Nah I know correlation =/= causation.
By what mechanism would you propose that veg* is healthier?
I didn’t know this was a thing. My bad. This was more of a semantics things. I thought of the word “rationalist” as the same as what you think “aspiring rationalist” is.
Certainly! Not a problem, we tend to have a way of talking around here. Kind of a “jargon”, not hard to get used to, but tends to make it possible to tell who is on the same page as you in terms of reasonableness or still learning. Definitely look at the wiki for some of the terms and the sequences is a great read.
That would be called politics. (the politics of why some are fed and not others) And has very little to do with how much meat we eat, and a lot more to do with the state of geopolitical events.
This is where we disagree on this point. I would say it’s not always possible to grow human-edible crops in all land areas that we currently grow animals crops or generally have animal herds. I can’t prove that over the internet, but consider climates not ideal for human food, dry climate, wet climate, rocky mountainous regions…
By what mechanism would you propose that veg* is healthier?
Certainly! Not a problem, we tend to have a way of talking around here. Kind of a “jargon”, not hard to get used to, but tends to make it possible to tell who is on the same page as you in terms of reasonableness or still learning. Definitely look at the wiki for some of the terms and the sequences is a great read.