Naa I know plenty about it. As you militant vegans are all over lemmy. The joke here is that animals eat other animals....humans are no different, we're omnivores for a reason. You can act like plants can replace meat but the amount of nutrients from 4oz of meat vs 4oz of some plant is always going to be way out of proportion.

Plants require a lot of work as well. Most farms that produce meat, are not mega farms like you guys think. The majority of the farms here in the US are small operations, 1k or less head of cattle. They make up 90% of what is consumed. The cows drink, non-potable water. They eat mainly grass (you don't raise a cow on grain, shit is expensive when grass and roughage is free) and they don't require you to constantly fertilize the soil to grow something. On top of all this, the majority of what is fed to cows is grass/roughage, and then hay in the winter, which is just rolled up grass/roughage. The feed they finish cows with is non-eatable foods from plants you and I eat. Stalks, roots, stems...shit you cannot process. You think they take and just toss out the plant you're beans grow on? Hell no, it's turned into cattle feed.

So, yes I know a lot about this, because I own a farm and work closely with other farmers, who grow that plant based diet you eat... so be vegan all you want, no one is saying you can't, but don't come acting high and mighty because you don't want the rest of us to eat meat.