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existential1 wrote

The problem with pieces like these is they say nothing of ecological diversity. Yes, in the way that food is produced for metropolitan areas and international trade, certain types of food have a higher footprint. Certain types will always have a higher footprint if you don't look at certain types of biproducts that actually regenerate soil. If you only think about footprint, you can really miss the point.

The point is our soil is dying. Our insects are dying. I say this as a vegan...monoculture industrial vegetable and fruit production (the norm by far) will not save our planet. Our bees, butterflies, and wasps are dying because of vegetable and fruit production.

Being vegan is not a cure-all. It may lower a carbon footprint for some people. It may make some people feel ethically or morally superior. It absolutely will not shift the ecological collapse we are in meaningfully. It may save some of the Amazon or some shit for wild animals and carbon capture, which is important. But it ain't gonna do shit for pollinators. It ain't gonna do shit for soil microbes or mycelium.

Those are the articles we really need in The Times and all those mainstream shits ppl read. Production and distribution methodologies must change if we are going to survive in any meaningful way.

If your veganism ain't about soil building and policultural agriculture, your veganism ain't about shit.

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