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> You could very well thrive on plants exclusively Survive, yes. Thrive? No, not really. And it's absolutely not the case that everyone can even survive on a
by danaris 4y ago
> You could very well thrive on plants exclusively
Survive, yes.
Thrive? No, not really.
And it's absolutely not the case that everyone can even survive on a pure vegetarian/vegan diet. Some people have medical conditions that make it impossible. Many, many, many people do not have the money to buy the unquestionably much more expensive food required to maintain a nutritious vegetarian or vegan diet.
The ability to do so is a privilege of the abled and well-off.
- 9dev 4y agoYou’d be surprised to learn that several cultures across the world do eat no or almost no meat. Meat consumption increases with wealth, so reality is contrary to what you’re hinting at: eating meat is a privilege of the well-off.
- danaris 4y agoY'know, oddly enough, both of these things can be true at the same time, for different regions and types of poverty. The point is, universal vegetarianism is not practical, either voluntary or enforced.
- 9dev 4y agoI don’t see how that relates to my point. Universal vegetarism is practiced already, without issues, since hundreds of years, by a rather large populace. Why wouldn’t it be practical?
- danaris 4y ago"Universal," as in, "practiced by everyone". (I'm not sure how else one could define that...?)