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by riversflow 1514 days ago
You know that we share the earth with every other species right? How about we let that stuff we cant eat be food for wild animals?
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What do we eat? Food grown at tremendous ecological expense and shipped halfway round the world?

Vegans are boiling the oceans. Eat what's on your doorstep.

Are you trolling or is this mood affiliation? Have you even really looked into the impact of the food miles of the ingredients you're using relatively to the rest of their carbon footprint? Spoiler: your food miles aren't going to make much of a difference relatively to the rest. Obviously, you can imagine a strawman vegan eating only your proverbial plane-flown avocado and compare that to a perfect locavore eating only grass-fed meat, and sparsely so. But how about compare the real average "locavore" and "vegan" and seeing how that goes. The BBC published a nice piece [1] (n=3) that gives a few pointers to help audit the impact of your food miles. Mileage will vary but even in the UK, with its heavy reliance on imported food, food miles weren't that big a deal compared with opting to eat less meat.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220429-the-climate-bene...