Thread by @SBakerMD

Vegans claim that their mission is to minimize animal suffering to the greatest extent that they can! A vegan diet is not the best way to do this

A thread!

First of all it is my experience that probably most vegans have been convinced by emotional propaganda that by going on a vegan diet they are minimizing animal death and suffering and many of them believe it to be true

Some of them even think that vegan food is “guilt free” and no death occur to produce their vegan meals

The reality of course is that literally billion, trillions and even quadrillions of “sentient beings” die both directly and indirectly for their food

They sometime will acknowledge this fact but then will say these are unintentional death (ie the cute bunnies run from the grain threshers etc..) but again reality is very different

While some animals definitely are shredded alive unintentionally during crop production and harvest, the vast majority are intentionally poisoned, trapped, shot, drowned or blown up in intentional attempts to exterminate pests to include small mammals, insects, frogs, birds etc..

Now in addition to these direct deaths, the effect is magnified up the food chain as the destruction of trillions of insects means the death and depopulation of millions of animals that rely on them for food, (eg birds, bats, reptiles etc..)

Just in the US alone over 3.5 quadrillion insects are poisoned to protect crops used to feed us! The deaths by poisoning are far more gruesome than is the death that occurs in a slaughterhouse which the animal is rendered unconscious within milliseconds

Now of course the standard vegan reply here would be- that’s ok because most crops are raised to feed animals-this however is patently false

Per the FAO crops worldwide raised for animal feed are represented by around 36% of just the cereal crops-so 64% of cereal crops are directed to human and all the other non cereal crops (think fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices etc) go almost exclusively to humans

Now in the US a majority of soybean crop (after oil extraction for human utilization, either as food/biofuel) goes to animal feed- mostly to chickens and pigs, very little goes to cows-vegans love to extrapolate this one isolated fact to claim most worldwide crops go to animals

So to be very clear human are unequivocally the majority consumer of crops worldwide an the majority of the poisoning deaths are occurring in the feeding of humans not animals

Now regardless of how that makes you feel, it is impossible to feed humans or any species for that manner without the death of many many other creatures, however…..

If we truly wanted to limit the massive number of dead animals then the least impactful way to do this would be by eating a fully carnivorous diet which focused just on large animals that are raised in a regenerative fashion without herbicides or pesticide

A standard American omnivore can will consume roughly 174 animals per year-around 1/8 of a cow, 1/3 of a pig, around 22 chicken, and 100+ seafood to include shrimp, shellfish etc-whereas a carnivore dieter sticking to beef would consume perhaps 2 cows

Now this is a very personal choice and has nothing to do with population metrics-vegans are quick to say “not everyone can eat regenerative meat” but then will try and convince us that the world should go vegan, which is also an impossibility-leading to mass malnourishment

Additionally when it comes to suffering we cannot the human aspect as well- billions suffer from malnutrition of which animal products can strongly help relieve

Also many many humans suffer to produce food so that privileged Westerners can dine on year round fruits and vegetables (a core feature of a vegan diet in many cases)

There are right now thousands of rancher in the US raising animals without pesticides or herbicides who would be happy to sell you beef if your goal was to truly reduce animal suffering rather than pretending to do so as the vegans do

We have a great list of many of those ranchers here

carnivore.diet/find-ranchers/

So the next time a sanctimonious vegan tries to pretend the are morally superior you can educate them on these facts