Being vegan isn’t as good for humanity as you think

Re:Being vegan isn’t as good for humanity as you think by chris_va on Sunday August 14, 2016 @12:35PM (#12286221)

If I am reading the original paper correctly, there is a bottleneck with the vegan diet that essentially requires you to only use cultivated cropland to get enough of a balanced diet.

The vegan curve never flattens out, because it is entirely dependent on cultivated cropland, unlike the other diets:

https://images.elementascience.org/611000.elementa.f005.PNG_...

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Re:Being vegan isn’t as good for humanity as you think by tjl on Sunday August 14, 2016 @12:52PM (#12286290)

Except you can use perennial sunflower which is an oilseed crop for crop rotation.

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Re:Being vegan isn’t as good for humanity as you think by chris_va on Sunday August 14, 2016 @04:04PM (#12287090)

I was assuming the bottleneck was protein output, but I cannot find the info in the paper at a glance.

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