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Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds
(www.theguardian.com)
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We can survive and with significant effort and education some can even thrive without meat in modern times with B12 supplementation. What you might be able to do as a wealthy American or similar cannot be expected of the rest of the world.
You are absolutely wrong, indian people eat a vegetarian diet for centuries with no problems. Asians used to consume no cheese or milk at all and eat very little meat. Our Western lifestyle is doing so much harm to us, to the planet and to our animal cousins. Eating processed meat daily is really bad, just look at our society, we are not healthy at all! We don't put significant efford in our diet and it really shows.
There's a huge difference between a little meat and no meat.
Pointing at a population known for vegetarian dishes doesn't prove anything
Indians are known for having nutritional deficiencies which lead to population wide vision problems.
Eating meat isn't the problem, human overpopulation is the problem.
I'm from a third world country you goon.
did you notice the "or simiar" part? That meant if you're from somewhere where you're wealthy enough to by vitamin supplements and do stuff like use the internet to post to Lemmy you're way ahead of much of the world who do not have access to these things.
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This man was able to be vegan over 1000 years ago while he was blind from the age of 6 due to smallpox and lived to the age of 83. All while he established himself as a renowned poet, writer and philosoph of the arabic world. Granted the B12 levels in soil were much higher back then. But what's bad about taking a pill a day vs destroying the livelihood of future generations?
Nothing for me and you,, but it's a literal impossibility for like 4 billion people.
Which would be the impossible factor(s) in your opinion?
We currently have hundreds of millions of people suffering food insecuring now according to the UN, if we can't feed everyone now, how do you propose to ensure they eat vegan and have adequate vitamin 12.
It's a logistical impossibility in our current global order. I want starving people to get food, my relatively rich ass has no place telling starving people that their food is immoral.