• Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    People who genuinely think plant based diets are cruelty free and environmentally friendly don’t know anything about modern agriculture.

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      It’s not perfect, but I think that statement is rather misleading. Problems with plant agriculture are multiplied by animal agriculture which relies on it even more to grow crops for feed. Counterintuitively plant-based diets use fewer crops and less cropland compared to animal agriculture due to not loosing energy from feed crops going to creatures who use that energy on their own body function

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      1 year ago

      You should assume that any consumption, if not proven otherwise, is not cruelty free and environmentally friendly. The most moral thing to do is to consume less, I guess.