The Veganism Thread

[eddy]

Most shops, Checkers, Woolies, PnP, Spar.... sell them.

 

I want one that doesn't make me f@rt....

[Patchelicious]

I want one that doesn't make me f@rt....

 

Unfortunately when you go Vegan, the one thing that does increase is your green house gas emissions.

[BigDL]

Just give them real cake. They can never tell the difference

[Odinson]

"At least I’m not farting..."
 

Edited December 6, 2018 by Odinson

[Patchelicious]

At least I’m not farting...

 

https://www.gstatic.com/healthricherkp/illustrations/f126104bf36752be10c7080de97cdddf.jpg

Apparently it affects your sense of humor too.

[Odinson]

Apparently it affects your sense of humor too.

Sorry. Forgot I still had a carrot up my arse. ????

[Patchelicious]

Sorry. Forgot I still had a carrot up my arse. ????

Glad to see you switched from gerbils #GoVegans

Edited December 6, 2018 by Patchelicious

[Odinson]

Glad to see you switched from gerbils #GoVegans

#crueltyfreebuttplugs

[Patchelicious]

#crueltyfreebuttplugs

#TellThatToTheCarrot

[Odinson]

#TellThatToTheCarrot

 

Ugh! Another triggered plants-rights activist. 

[NotSoBigBen]

Most shops, Checkers, Woolies, PnP, Spar.... sell them.

 

F*k coffee everywhere demmit [emoji23][emoji23]

[Patchelicious]

F*k coffee everywhere demmit [emoji23][emoji23]

Black coffee only I hope?

[Odinson]

Black coffee only I hope?

Oat, soya, almond, cashew, coconut and rice milk and y’all still drink hormone-laden, pus-filled breastmilk of a cow?

 

#breastfeedingmiddleagedmen

 

????

[NotSoBigBen]

Black coffee only I hope?

I'm not a vegenarian dude .....

[Eldron]

Oat, soya, almond, cashew, coconut and rice milk and y’all still drink hormone-laden, pus-filled breastmilk of a cow?

 

#breastfeedingmiddleagedmen

 

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Bitty mummy. Want bitty!

[Odinson]

Another day, another research article coming to the same conclusion:

 

Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers

 

 

Food’s environmental impacts are created by millions of diverse producers. To identify solutions that are effective under this heterogeneity, we consolidated data covering five environmental indicators; 38,700 farms; and 1600 processors, packaging types, and retailers. Impact can vary 50-fold among producers of the same product, creating substantial mitigation opportunities. However, mitigation is complicated by trade-offs, multiple ways for producers to achieve low impacts, and interactions throughout the supply chain. Producers have limits on how far they can reduce impacts. Most strikingly, impacts of the lowest-impact animal products typically exceed those of vegetable substitutes, providing new evidence for the importance of dietary change. Cumulatively, our findings support an approach where producers monitor their own impacts, flexibly meet environmental targets by choosing from multiple practices, and communicate their impacts to consumers.

 

 

Environmental impacts of the entire food supply chain Today’s food supply chain creates ~13.7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2eq), 26% of anthropogenic GHG emissions. A further 2.8 billion metric tons of CO2eq (5%) are caused by nonfood agriculture and other drivers of deforestation (17). Food production creates ~32% of global terrestrial acidification and ~78% of eutrophication. These emissions can fundamentally alter the species composition of natural ecosystems, reducing biodiversity and ecological resilience (19). The farm stage dominates, representing 61% of food’s GHG emissions (81% including deforestation), 79% of acidification, and 95% of eutrophication (table S17). Today’s agricultural system is also incredibly resource intensive, covering ~43% of the world’s ice- and desert-free land. Of this land, ~87% is for food and 13% is for biofuels and textile crops or is allocated to nonfood uses such as wool and leather. We estimate that two-thirds of freshwater withdrawals are for irrigation. However, irrigation returns less water to rivers and groundwater than industrial and municipal uses and predominates in water-scarce areas and times of the year, driving 90 to 95% of global scarcityweighted water use (17).

 

Just look at this

 

 

So, an open question. To those who still eat animal products, even if you don't want to go 100% plant-based, in light of evidence like the above, what is stopping you from greatly reducing your consumption of animal products?