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this fact:

> requiring 5x agricultural land and fertiliser

can certainly not be paraphrased as:

> marginally more expensive, ecologically

> I've seen reports from journalists who have tried following those diets saying they were constantly hungry.

This is the inherent problem of journalism - they need sensational results, otherwise the majority of folks wouldn't be bothered to read their journalism.

My 2 cents on this topic: I'm 10+ years vegan and everything is good, it's just no clickbait-worthy story...

> Another thing that is too easily forgotten, is the energy use of the infrastructure that supports many technologies; most notably the mobile phone network and the internet (which consists of server farms, routers, switches, optical equipment and the like)

While I agree with you, it's worth noting that the server farms of our tech giants are already powered by renewable energy (Google 100%, AWS 50%, Microsoft 50%, ...).

> And there is NO added sugar

This is NO good argument - even without added sugar, orange juice is on par with coke (about 10 gram sugar/100 ml).

>not that big of a deal

also known as 'who cares, we won't be here'

IMHO something that leaves a toxic legacy for hundreds of generations to come is justifiably not 'clean'.

> If Apple soldering memory to the motherboard is more reliable than using a socket is that better or worse for the life of the product.

But it's most definitely not. The SO DIMM socket is a well proven design, I have never in my life seen or read about one failing. But failing memory is a pretty ordinary thing to happen - rendering the entire computer useless in Apple's case...