This Is Vegan Propaganda (& Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

by Ed Winters

Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in and simultaneously contribute to addressing many of the most pressing issues that our species currently faces: climate change, infectious disease, chronic disease, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation.

philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson: ‘You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.’

The study showed that even though meat and dairy take up 83 per cent of global agricultural land, they only provide 18 per cent of global calories and 37 per cent of global protein consumption.10 In other words, animal products are staggeringly inefficient – there is a massive disparity in the amount of resources we put into animal farming compared to what we get back. Simply put, the consumption of animal products is just not tenable in a sustainable food system.