Only Vegans can save the world

Here's an alternative view which may bring comfort for some:The moral high ground of food just shifted a little bit.   Using biophysical simulation models to compare 10 eating patterns, researchers found that eating fewer animal products will increase the number of people that can be supported by existing farmland. But as it turns out, eliminating animal products altogether isn’t the best way to maximize sustainable land use. Their work was published in Elementa, a journal on the science of the anthropocene.   The researchers considered the vegan diet, two vegetarian diets (one that includes dairy, the other dairy and eggs), four omnivorous diets (with varying degrees of vegetarian influence), one low in fats and sugars, and one akin to the modern American dietary pattern.   Based on their models, the vegan diet would feed fewer people than two of the vegetarian and two of the four omnivorous diets studied. The bottom line: Going cold turkey on animal-based products may not actually be the most sustainable long choice for humanity in the long term:I could not work in a slaghterhouse and do not expext anyone to do this dirty work for me.   When I first realised this I became a Vegan, less than five years after joining the SPGB.  This article touches on some related issues.

Not all meat is intensively farmed, or could it's production be easily swapped for vegetarian options. For instance a great deal of sheep live in the Cheviot Hills, but I can't see anyone getting a bloody big combine harvester up Hedgehope Hill. I do agree that there is waste in industries such as this, lambs are produced for the market, but Mutton is hardly seen in the shops, for instance. Nothing wrong with a nice shoulder of mutton, when you can get it.As another example, although it is clear the fishing industry can be destructive in it's present form, would the Vegan enforcers in a Socialist Society stop me from going down to Tynemouth to catch a couple of fresh mackerel for my tea?

The shoulder of mutton was attached to a living animal.   The technology exists to grow meat, which is preferable in my mind as no suffering is involved.   I could not kill an animal in order to eat it and by being Vegan no one does this dirty work for me.   I 'police' what I consume and do not expect others to do likewise, i.e., they choose for themselves if they eat fish, insects or any other animals.   With regard to honey, I believe the Vegan Society (UK) once considered consumption of this animal product acceptable, but now do not.   You can read why most Vegans eschew honey here.

There is a romantic illusion  about the issues of consuming vegetables only. Many peoples are against the killing of animals, but they support wars , they justify the killing of others human beings, and the manufacturing of weapons, and to carry arms  which have caused the killing of millions of human beings.The war in Iraq, and Kuwait has killed millions of animals, and the use of depleted uranium in large quantity ( bigger than the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ) has caused animals death, and mutations, and the mutation of human beings, and the water is contaminated and the plants alsoGetting honey from bees do not produce any harms on those little animals, and honey is beneficial for the health of human beings, but at the present most of the honey are extracted from flowers, do flowers feel anything when they are remove from the trees ?  How do we know that those plants are not infected with chemical fertilizers ? Cow and chickens manures are also producing diseases, and many farmers are throwing them in the waters that peoples are drinking, and they producing E. coli, cow manure, or worn casting  is not the perfect fertilizer either because pasture  also have chemicals, and cow eat themMany years ago insulin was  extracted from the Pancreas of  pigs and cows,  and it saved the life of millions of human beings, as well the use of the heart valves of the pigs, and cows  have also saved the life of many human being who has heart diseases and defective heart valves. They are safer and more efficient than mechanical valvesAt the present time eating vegetable is not completely safe either,  when they have found ecoli in Spinach, Broccoli, and Lettuce, and in some parts of the earth the soil is infected with many bacteria that produce diseases on human beings, and the water used for irrigation is contaminated .In Central America and in the jungles of Brazil they have found several types of plants that are being used to cure cancers and for Chemotherapy, and Monsanto wants to take over those plants and used their chemical poisonous fertilizers, as well they have taken over the production of corn used to produce sugar instead of sugar cane, and sugar cane is more resistance to plants diseases than corn., and they use chemicals to produce the white color on sugarThe problem of our world is not the consumption and killings of animals, and replacing with the consumption of vegetables, our problem is the profit system, that is the one that must be replaced, and must be thrown in the trash bin of history

Guardian is carrying this story on veganismhttps://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/aug/16/veganism-not-key-sustainable-development-natural-resources-jimmy-smith

That may be the case, but that in and of itself does not mean that what he says on the matter is necessarily false.

The only ones that can save the world are the vegans and the meat eaters, or the vast majority of the human beings with the desires to establish a new society and replace this system with a new one