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But I really do dislike how much veganism-the-ideology has taken over the discussion on climate change and how to fix our foodways, for reasons that include but are certainly not limited to:

• people who believe that farming animals is innately bad and unethical attributing climate change to “animal agriculture” when most of the negative impacts come from beef specifically, which makes the problem seem MUCH less solvable than it actually is.
• animal rights activists and organizations have been given a seat at the table discussing how to solve climate change and biodiversity loss, when they include people that believe things like “zoos are inherently bad” “domestication is equivalent to slavery” “it’s never necessary to cull overpopulated species” and “hunting is always bad”
• The way we grow plant crops is SO fucked as well—nitrogen fertilizer causes so much pollution, use of pesticides and herbicides is probably the main cause of the decline of insects, we are losing topsoil way way too fast— but we have people naively proclaiming that switching to “plant based diets” is the answer
• the way “veganism as Solver Of Human Problems” puts the focus and responsibility entirely on individual choice instead of changing the way food systems work. I’m sorry but people cannot personal-choice their way out of a system that is fucked by design and that they need in order to not starve
• the stereotyping of farmers as evil and sadistic people who love to watch animals suffer for a profit. Who benefits
• rejecting outright the idea that farming or hunting animals could ever be sustainable or acceptable on any scale when indigenous people worldwide have done it for millennia, animals have been domesticated for 12,000+ years, and not everyone can even survive on a strictly plant based diet
• anti-indigenous racism
• anti-indigenous racism
• entangling so much energy and effort to removing all nuance and advocating a personal lifestyle change that is not possible to accomplish and/or sustain long term for most people instead of literally anything specific and effective
• ^who benefits (Your picture was not posted)