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>Vegan != no carbon footprint. Well, no sane person has claimed that. >In fact, I would imagine that when compared to a typical vegetarian diet, it is less ca
by nawitus 12y ago
>Vegan != no carbon footprint.
Well, no sane person has claimed that.
>In fact, I would imagine that when compared to a typical vegetarian diet, it is less carbon efficient.
Your imagination is not consistent with reality/studies.
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/food-carbon-footprint-diet http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/food-carbon-footprint-diet
>Isolation from animal (by)products means that food bound for vegans typically requires specialized handling and processing.
The average vegan food is a lot more efficient than any animal product. An animal is just a biological machien which converts plant matter to animal products. You could take out the inefficient converter and just eat the plant directly. For example, 99% of soy in the United States is eaten by animals.
>Limited food processing means that food can not be easily stockpiled and distributed.
What? There's no special truck for vegan products. Supermarkets ship vegan and non-vegan products together.
>All of that, and vegan-bound foodstuffs still have to be planted, fertilized, harvested and transported.
Yeah. And because animals eat plants, the average omnivore consumes more plant matter than the average vegan.
- dllthomas 12y ago"The average vegan food is a lot more efficient than any animal product. An animal is just a biological machien which converts plant matter to animal products. You could take out the inefficient converter and just eat the plant directly. For example, 99% of soy in the United States is eaten by animals." Not that this destroys your thesis, but some animals happily eat things humans won't. A pig fed leftovers is going to be more efficient than sending those leftovers to landfill. People don't eat much grass. &c. This is, of course, mostly irrelevant to how we actually feed ourselves in the developed world (where, for instance, pasture would serve other uses).