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[–] 93 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm not vegan because I give a fuck about animals. I'm vegan because I hate plants.

Green dudes have had it too good for too long.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As pointed out above, if you hate plants, you should eat as much meat as possible. Every kilo of meat represents at least ten kilos of plants eaten by the animal.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I don't want another animal taking my Freudian pleasure. The erotic joy of voring a verdant, fleshy succulent. Feeling the crunching snap of brutality as an innocent plant is ground between my glistering molars. The swallow; the mulched, peppery bolus peristalted down a wet, hungry, pulsing oesophegus. The conversion of what was once a marvel of evolution, a being that could harness the power of a living star, into fodder for my next bowel movement. From stoma to stoma.

    This is not some cool, by-the-numbers optimisation. This is raw, visceral, hungry cruelty.

    The old adage can be given greater, poetic specificity. Revenge is a dish best served cold. And it is a salad.

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    [–] 75 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Cool Fact: Vegans consume a total of less plants than omnivores. Animals eat plants, so if you eat them, you're eating an animal plus everything it ate to grow up.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Animals on average convert about 10% of the mass they eat into their own body mass.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    So when a lion dies and turns to grass, the antilopes only get back 10% of the grass they ate to make meat for the lion.

    Circle of life, my ass. More like a trickle down pyramid scheme.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    It's even less. The Antilope converts 10% of grass to meat, the lion converts 10% of Antilope meat to lion meat. So it's 10% of 10% bringing us back to the root problem of everything... The 1%!!!!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Only a matter of time before plant-based alternatives fully take over from meat. Meat farming is not sustainable, as you mention all the land used to farm food for animals could be used to just farm more food for us directly.

    We just have to get rid of the stigma around plant-based "meat".

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    At this point it isn't so much the stigma as it is the price for a lot of us. If it was the same or cheaper than regular meat prices in my area I would buy it instead.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It is worth mentioning that the types of plants that people and animals eat are different. Humans can't digest cellulose and hemicellulose where herbivores can.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Yeah, we can't really eat grass, but thinking that most cattle nowadays actually graze is... inaccurate, to put it mildly.

    Factory-farmed cattle are almost always fed grain made of corn and soy, both of which are completely fine for humans to eat, in case someone was unaware.

    Producing 1kg of beef takes several kilos of feed.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, instead of using that land to grow monocultured grass, we could use it to grow plants we do eat. It's not like we would keep growing grass there and say "Darn! We can't eat this grass!", we wouldn't need to plant plants we don't eat in the first place.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah I agree and we need to start with lawns.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lawn-largest-crop-america_n_55d0dc06e4b07addcb43435d

    Also many animals are grassed on areas which are unsuitable for farming. And if done in a responsible manner allows for the natural diversity of an area to be maintained.

    Monocroping corn or potatoes is just as bad.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I totally agree, lawns are a huge waste of space and resources. I've torn up every lawn on every property I've rented or owned and replaced it with local plants for native pollinators (honeybees are invasive and harm native pollinators).

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    [–] 54 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Plants make oxygen, animals make poop
    If the vegans win then we'll no oxygen to breathe, only poop

    This is the future vegans want

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'd agree with you, that also means more farts. And farts are funny. Do you hate comedy?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I've been acclimatizing to a fart-only lifestyle by micro dosing on e-girl farts I buy online.

    80% of my oxygen and 30% of my calories I get from farts now.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    That's it, now I'm gonna go eat twice as many legumes as I usually eat just because of this post!

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    You'll never stop us, mwahahahaha!

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Dammit, who ate the fucking forest again?!

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    No!

    Surrender the plants

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    W̷E̵ ̵A̷R̴E̶ ̴V̸E̶G̷A̴N̴.̴ ̷B̴A̵N̴E̷ ̶O̸F̵ ̸N̷A̵T̵U̵R̵E̸.̴ ̸D̶E̷V̸O̷U̵R̸E̸R̵ ̷O̷F̷ ̸W̶O̵R̷L̷D̷S̶.̷

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    It's funny, but obligatory cattle rearing requires more crop fields to sustain than simply eating the crops ourselves.

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  • Goddamit vegans

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Honestly we can't stop vegans. What we need to do is imprison in a giant chamber that artificially grows grass

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    NEMATODES!!!!!!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Reminder to keep eating lamb and cows because they want to eat all the grass on the planet leaving only desert behind.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Sigh, I find this too sad to be funny

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    My uncle has a forest that he really loves.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    "I don't eat anything that casts a shadow."

    "Don't plants cast shadows?"

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