Originally Posted by
Eduke93
Congrats on the weight loss!
Yeah it’s not nice, and sorry to hear about your dog! It is sad, that’s why I don’t contribute to anything that will put animals in this position, did you know pigs are more intelligent than dogs? When they go into that gas chamber, they know exactly what’s happening and they literally shit themselves because they are so fucking scared. I’ve been to both cattle and pig farms, you can see it in their eyes that they are suffering and all they want it some help and some love. Its fucking horrendous.
Sure, you’d certainly feel healthier in a vegetarian diet. A lot of people generally do!
With regards to Money, I eat around 3000 calories a day at the moment, 180-200 protein. I spend around £50 a week on food. My diet consists of beans, legumes, rice and tofu. Also some fruit and veggies. It isn’t expensive, just need to find the right foods and supermarket, jeez when I ate meat id spend £50 a week on chicken alone!!
Now onto grains!! Depending on the crop and the animal, you can get up to 20 times the number of calories per acre growing human foodstuffs than grain for animals. An average of 8 pounds of grain is used to produce a pound of beef. It takes about 2 pounds of grain to produce one pound of chicken meat, about 4 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of pork. This does not take into account the additional fuels and other resources required to keep, transport, and slaughter the animals. So by going vegan you will still be using overall less grain/greens. .
Yes, animals are killed during harvesting grain/vegetables. Vegan means to reduce suffering as much as possible, unfortunately this is going to happen regardless. But again as per above, a vegan will consume less grain than a meat eater due to the amount of grain that is fed to animals for consumption. So as a vegan you are still killing 95% less animals than a meat eater.