So... Tell me how vegan alternatives to items reduce carbon footprint lol.
Vegans in ideology make sense, but if you are paying more for food [that's worse for you, instead:] just buy local stuff from your farmers market or ethically-farmed things... Local eggs, cows, vegetables... Surely this can't be unreasonable.
I think veganism is useless. However, I'm not going to argue
Voting >>>> Personal energy usage [Using public transit instead of driving, Electric heating, efficient buildings, etc] >>>>>>>>>>>>> Non energy lifestyle choices.
It's not them not eating meat that I have a problem with(even though it's not healthy), it's the self-righteousness of it.
To be fair. There is much debate around whether livestock is indirectly carbon neutral with very valid studies on both sides
got any reading on that ? legit never heard that before
Check out the "sodcasts" of Peter Ballerstedt on his YouTube channel. He's a forage agronomist with a lot of knowledge. You may not like his conclusions, but he gives you the data to check them out.
I looked on google scholar to see any of their papers. Most of what I could find doesn't seem to be exactly peer-reviewed articles nor are most really cited by any other papers. At that they are making rather bold claims with rather weak evidence
See my comment further down the thread going into detail about how this is not the case https://lemmy.ml/comment/646750