To believe that eating meat should be illegal?

[BySpoonyBlueScroller]

The environmental damage and animal cruelty outweighs the cultural or personal benefits. AIBU to think it’s time to outlaw meat production?

How do we do that?

That’s way out of the Overton window

didn’t you know sunflower oil is ‘heart healthy’? 😆

More blue haired activists with nothing better to do with their time.

It’s much easier to sneer at a blue-haired straw man than deal with the issue.

I think it’s worse than that,
Notice that they are fine with foxes slaughtering my hens, fine with other predatory species doing their natural thing. It’s just humans they hate.
Its a tragic nihilism and hatred of humans

We’ve done so much to improve animal welfare. Go back even 100 years, but still it’s not enough:

it’s nihilism. Or other mental illness.

It’s just humans they hate

😂😂😂

As a person who currently has purple hair and will have blue hair again this summer, I'm offended. I am all in favour of people eating less meat and a better diet, but a ban? No way, especially given the reasons I outlined on page 1 of this thread. If we were meant to be vegan, we'd have the dentition to match.

What would you suggest for athletes (semipro/pro), prospective athletes, fitness enthusiasts, bodybuilders, powerlifters etc?

There's enough research, especially without the use of peds, that those in that category need to be getting approximately 1.5g protein per lb of bodyweight.

How much protein rich veg is going to need to be produced to substitute the demand?

And as previous posters have mentioned, the quality of protein from meat/animal based derivatives are better quality than most vegetarian based sources if you compare the bio-availability.

The nearest comparable vegetarian based source is rice protein.

Better call up the Far East countries and get them to increase their human slavery to increase rice production....

Ask the Williams sisters.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

No veganism should be made illegal.

Eh?

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.

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

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.

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

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.