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Originally Posted by Ryland
Alot of the vegans I know eat food that has been shipped great distances, takes heavy equipment to farm and is heavily prepossessed, how is this environmentally friendly? I can get beef that ate grass on hill sides that shouldn't have equipment on them and not finished on corn, chicken that ate bugs and vegetable scraps and both of those are avalible locally.
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Local, organic meat usually has a bigger footprint than factory farmed, shipped halfway across the country meat anyway. :P
The plain fact of the matter is that meat consumption is unsustainable, and as other countries begin to eat more meat, we're going to see a lot more green house gases (since the meat industry creates more of them than transportation) and even bigger increases in the cost of staples crops (since cows eat them too).