"Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals." https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/definition-veganism
You could make a similar argument about slavery, the reason we abolished it has nothing to do with productivity estimations.
It's baffling. You won't find any vegans that haven't got depression, anxiety, or some other mood disorder. In all seriousness I wonder if being vegan is similar to an eating disorder, where people are looking for some measure of control in their lives and food is the one thing they can control.
It feels like a desperate attempt of the meat industry to delay the inevitable, not too different from cigarette and oil industry tactics we've all seen in the past. They also had a plethora of experts to convince the public it's a good thing to smokwe. Food industry is powerful and it will go down kicking, that's for sure.
> When the documentary Cowspiracy came out and said 51 per cent of emissions are from livestock, I knew that was not true. I knew that the official global number was 14.5 per cent, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. And even that is an exaggerated number.
If you want to learn more, and why the contribution of meat production may be even higher than 51%, see the following paper: https://climatehealers.org/the-science/animal-agriculture-po...
One thing from the article I can agree with. Don't eat highly processed food. Not all vegan diets are healthy diets.
If you want to stay healthy, eat whole plant-based foods, minimum fat. Whenever someone has health problem, doctors will recommend plant based diet - like with cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular illnesses, gallblader & pancreas, kidney, endometriosis ... it's easily verifiable.
In fact, 15 top killer diseases are preventable with plant-based diets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXXXygDRyBU
If I had more time, I would have written a better comment. Sorry.