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Vegans damage the environment more than meat eaters. It takes far more effort to grow vegetables, thus more carbon and chemicals in the soil. One cow supports multiple people but a vegan requires a whole array of crops which means destroying other ecosystems and turning them into arable land. Onion farming is incredibly destructive to the environment for instance, with an ever growing demand for food more and more warehouses will have to be built in areas that can not sustain such plant-life naturally, which will require further resources to manage temperature and humidity.
A pure vegan diet will lead to death without B12 supplements. Why? Because it's totally unnatural. Humans eat meat, pretending you're of some higher species because you opt not to doesn't make you superior, it makes you foolish for thinking you’re above what you are. The rest of us are following our natural evolution and enjoying slow cooked pulled pork sandwiches. Being human is awesome.
SourceComparisons of the health and longevity of cultures with different dietary habits confirms that meat eaters, such as Eskimos, Nagas and Maasai, can expect to live twice as long as primitive vegetarians. It may be said that such a comparison is flawed because the situations in which these peoples live is very different but there are cases throughout the world where meaningful comparisons can be made.
A study by Drs. W. S. McClellan and E. F. Du Bois (35) found that the Eskimos in Baffin Island and Greenland living on a diet composed almost entirely of meat and fish, and eating no starchy or sugary foods, suffered few diseases. This was not the case with the Labrador Eskimos. They had been 'civilised' and lived on preserved foods, dried potatoes, flour, canned foods and cereals. Among them the diseases of civilisation were rife.
Dr. Sir Robert McCarrison (36) , working in India, similarly compared the northern tribes - Pathans, Sikhs and Hunzas - who ate meat and fresh vegetables, had fine physiques and were healthy and long-lived with the Plains peoples - Madrassis, Bengalis and Kanarese - who ate little meat or milk, living mainly on rice and who were overweight and unhealthy.
If you want to save the environment, you're going to have to prevent the global population from growing. It won't matter what those people eat. It will only matter that there's going to be too many of them. Animals are the fruits of their respective environments. If you cut down an apple tree, you're not going to get any more apples.
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