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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://ourworldindata.org/images/published/Global-soy-production-to-end-use.png

i can't click your paywalled link

here's what the UN's FAO says

oil is 17.2%. since a soybean is only about 20% oil to begin with, you need to crush 85% of all soybeans to get that much oil. do you see how the vast majority of what is fed to animals is called "soy meal" or "soy cake"? that's the industrial waste from processing soybeans to oil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its statista, they limit traffic. Try a different browser.

Btw funny you link OWID, you should read their article. It doesn't mention the feed as a side product of oil production, and I'm having trouble finding your quote.

Even if its 100% true and just not mentioned in any articles on the matter, then I guess large scale veganism still only removes loads of industrial processes/co2 production, unspeakable animal abuse and insane amounts - and i mean ludicrous amounts - of wasted drinking water.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess large scale veganism still only removes loads of industrial processes/co2 production, unspeakable animal abuse and insane amounts - and i mean ludicrous amounts - of wasted drinking water.

that has never happened.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. Thats the problem.

Global consumption and production are increasing

Do. You. Follow?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you can make any excuse you want. the fact is that being vegan has not helped the environment at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You seem to have a very tough time matching what people say/write and what you feel like they mean with it.

Let me rephrase the original claim so you may understand what the actual topic is you're so furiously debating: Reducing global meat production would be a net benefit to the planet and every being living on it in the long term.

Reducing demand for said production at a large scale WOULD (this is in conjunctive because it's still a small movement so IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET - we all know that) over time force said production to scale down.

Literally no human i have ever interacted with before you thought not buying a steak for a few months instantly fixes the world. We are painfully aware. Which is why we chose not to participate in that insane bullshit which causes all kinds of issues and harm anymore.

Thank you for your time and energy, this has been awfully unproductive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Reducing global meat production would be a net benefit to the planet and every being living on it in the long term.

that's true. what you said before was not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally no human i have ever interacted with before you thought not buying a steak for a few months instantly fixes the world.

i never said that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny how that works isn't it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

strawmen? not really. it's exhausting dealing with intellectual dishonesty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

when someone takes you at your word, and then you need to walk back your position to a much weaker claim because they point out that you are writing checks the facts don't support, it's you who is practicing intellectual dishonesty. compounding it with strawmen, and then rhetorically implying it is, in fact, the person who called you out who is being dishonest is the height of intellectual dishonesty. you should be ashamed, and you should edit the comments where you lied so as not to continue to mislead other users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You still talking about the comment that I didn't write? Still implying causality you never proved? Cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you keep waffling about whether you lied, but I assure you, you did. you've even owned up to it earlier in the thread, but now you're backsliding.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

this is deflection

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Reducing demand for said production at a large scale WOULD (this is in conjunctive because it’s still a small movement so IT HASN’T HAPPENED YET - we all know that) over time force said production to scale down.

that's not causal.