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In reply to the discussion: Federal report: Vegan diet best for planet [View all]Warpy
(114,580 posts)41. Vegan diets take a great time committment
and that's going to go over like a lead balloon in industrialized countries where both spouses work for a living.
Eventually restaurants and frozen foods will step into the breach, but for now the pickings are pretty slim.
Most of the younger people I know are already doing meatless meal days during the week as a way to save on the food bill.
I doubt if the beef industry is going to go away. There's a lot of land out west that isn't arable but will support cattle. People are just going to be eating a lot less of it as time goes on, using it in casseroles and stir fries instead of confronting a 14 oz. slab o cow as an end of the week steak treat every week.
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"My right to a clean future and my kid's future trumps your right to have bacon." Nope
cstanleytech
Apr 2015
#6
Maybe we all oughta dump whatever we want in the rivers and leave others alone.
ZombieHorde
Apr 2015
#32
Perhaps, but cow pasturage isn't so evil as a monoculture herbicide soaked corn farm
bhikkhu
Apr 2015
#14
Jump in with great recipes at PostPunkKitchen. Isa Chandler writes great cookbooks
KittyWampus
Apr 2015
#49
Odd - the article uses the word 3 times, once in a direct quote from the paper
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2015
#112
In civil society, humans have greater rights than animals who are part of humanity's food chain,
closeupready
Apr 2015
#58
Animals can not be citizens of society; thus, no, people have no obligation to bestow them with
closeupready
Apr 2015
#61
The resource concentration mechanism we call civilization probably isn't good for the planet either
The2ndWheel
Apr 2015
#81