To believe that eating meat should be illegal?

Why?

Do you have a qualification in Agricultural Studies?

We can all grow some of our own food -

https://hub.suttons.co.uk/gardening-advice/how-to-grow-patio-fruit-and-vegetables

We are omnivores.

What a load of bollocks.

Plenty of vegan athletes here

www.veganfoodandliving.com/features/vegan-athletes-plant-based-diet/

I dont believe it is either or else the fact that you can create farms that are better for the environment than leaving the ground to scrub up would have garnered some interest on here.

I can provide examples of farms thst are carbon negative but no one was interested. The impact on ecology was completely ignored.

this wasn't a debate to widen opinions and understand what we could do to make the world a better place, it was just entrenched rhetoric - on both sides - and I regret posting on it. i didn't help and I have a potentially poorly animal i could worry about instead.

maybe someone would find these people interesting.

Pasture for Life

I think that your idea says more about you than anything else. The reason vegans and a lot of vegetarians have to put up with stick online and in the office is this sort of militancy from a few extremists like you (and a depressing number of others on this thread).

I imagine that having children has a a greater environmental impact than the difference between veganism and a "normal" diet. Got any ideas to fix that one? Actually I think I'd rather not know.

No it’s not

Several posters, myself included, have asked this very question and highlighted the environmental issues.

Some posters are too busy throwing insults around to engage in actual discussion about the practicalities of this which are fundamental, because it’s not going to be more environmentally positive and it would endanger a lot of peoples food supply.

That isn't what I eat, you said ask the Williams sisters.
That's what I found through a quick 5 minute Google looking at interview scripts.

I also didn't say it's means puny.

I was merely indicating the difficultly that people could have reaching protein goals on purely plant based protein sources if meat was made illegal from the op.
A 160lb female athlete say for example one of the current Gladiators, let's use Cyclone, would ideally need 200-240g protein daily (1.25 to 1.5g protein per lb of bodyweight).
Even accounting 60g of that from 2x protein shakes 140-180g on just plant based proteins alone will be a struggle without considering calories and macro splits.

But the quality of the type of protein and the bio-availability index is science.

The issues are the despicably cruel treatment of animals and the destruction of the environment

As a species we are omnivores, our bodies are designed for it. I do try to eat vegetarian several times a week and am not a huge meat eater. However mamy vegan meals are highly processed and have huge carbon footprints so I'm not sure it would be more beneficial to the planet.

What’s the issue? People like eating meat. Woah, stop press.

No but people should be more aware of the reality of factory farms and where their food comes from. Parents shouldn't be able to just pretend to kids that meat magically appears in the supermarket. If it's too distressing for kids to know the reality then maybe they should think twice about eating it. I'd welcome factory farm videos on the TV-you can eat meat if you want but not live in ignorance about what you're contributing to.

Eh?

No veganism should be made illegal.

Im nominating the one where the pp says that vegans have blue hair and HATE HUMANS.

I don't care what you eat.. Just don't pretend that veganism = puny

Heh, I am a brown skinned vegetarian with the black hair I was born with. Not pale..Not blue haired. Not an activist.

We all know the OP was a troll but interesting to see the furious responses.

Imagine calling someone a 'blue haired activist', just because they don't eat meat.

Why are some people so triggered at the mere idea of a vegetarian?

I have never eaten meat. I am 52. I'm about as far from a blue haired activist as you can get. I have run 3 marathons. Believe it or not, I'm not 'pale' either.

I don't 'avoid' meat. It never occurred to me to eat it in the first place, so nothing to 'avoid.' It just never featured in my life.

Asking me why I wouidnt eat a cow or a lamb, is like me asking meat eaters why they don't eat a dog or a horse. It never occurs to people to eat a dog or a horse. Well that's how I feel about cows, sheep and chicken. It's hardly a radical departure.

Great. We shall put more financial pressure on already stretched families. Much more expensive and time consuming to manage a balanced vegan diet.

much easier for low income families to feed their kids a balanced diet if they can eat some meat and dairy. People who push veganism are pushing from a place of privilege and don’t understand the issues this would create for people living in generational poverty, often with lower educational levels. But sure. Let’s make life harder for those kids to suit your ideology of not eating the diet humans were designed to eat. Why not. At least we won’t be slaughtering some chickens eh.

Breaking away from "Vegan" by eating eggs..
.... and ultra processed meat substitutes such a Beyond Meat.

Sorry, I'll stick to the better quality protein sources and less processed actual meat.

Lots of prejudice on here about people with coloured haor and vegans being wimps. Very tired stereotypes.
It is natural to eat meat and morals are a human construct. I used to be vegan so i get the philosophy.

I am a meat eater albeit not very much I actually agree with you, considering the huge environmental impact it has. It will never happen though.

This OP wins my award for the most idiotic internet post of the day.

Ask the Williams sisters.