Because we use the land that could be used to grow enough food to feed many people to grow food for cows, which then feed fewer people. By buying into this system, you’re propagating inefficiency.
To add to idiomaddict's great points, the animals don't eat exclusively grass. In Australia (assuming based on your instance): "the latest estimate (2017-18) of annual feed use in Australia is 13.58 million tonnes" (SFMCA).
This includes "cereal grains, legume grains, vegetable protein meals, animal protein meals, cereal milling co-products, minerals and vitamins" as per that same source.
I often see people use the deforestation of the Amazon for soy crops as a sort of gotcha for vegans, even though most soybeans are grown for use as animal feed (in the Amazon, mainly cattle). Incidentally, cattle farms are also responsible for much more deforestation in the Amazon than soybeans, but I digress.
I'll also note that grass-fed beef has often been shown to be as bad (or sometimes worse) for the environment than feedlot beef. It also can't scale to meet current meat consumption.
in fact, most soy beans are grown for oil, and even what is fed to livestock is mostly the byproduct made by pressing beans for oil. but even beyond that, cattle only eat about 7% of the total global soybean crop.
a soybean is only like 1/5 oil. after we've extracted the oil, feeding the meal or cake as it's variously called to animals is a conservation of resources.
Are any of those ingredients actually likely to be used in a veggie burger? I feel like I usually just see bean burgers, but I don't know much about veggie burger options
Tomatoes would be odd, I've never seen that. Onions, or at a minimum garlic power, should be in any burger recipe, IMO. Carrots would totally work for a veggie burger, I found this recipe that looks pretty tasty and uses both carrots and onions.
But disregarding all that; I very rarely eat burgers that don't have both onions and tomatoes as toppings :P
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As a vegetarian I find this comic offensive. The last panel should be that dude viscously ripping apart the vegetable people with his teeth.
Just because I don't eat animals doesn't mean I won't body slam you if you're between me and a potato.
AI really has gone too far
Except that you're eating way more plants if you eat animals than if you just eat plants, as animals eat lots of plants.
Depends on the animal. Home raised chicken, for instance, can almost live on human lefts.
Insects also eat things that humans really do not consume, for instance.
They don't really eat the same thing, do they?
Source
Edit: 25 million chicken are getting killed daily in the US.
So what you're saying is that for each animal you eat, you save a lot of plants?
No, for each animal you eat you're eating lots of plants in a really inefficient - and needlessly cruel - way
I cannot eat grass, ruminant animals can. How is it inefficient for me to eat the animal rather than the grass?
Because we use the land that could be used to grow enough food to feed many people to grow food for cows, which then feed fewer people. By buying into this system, you’re propagating inefficiency.
Right, we bulldoze forests to make fertile land available. I agree that's bad, I don't want celery from that land either
We’d need less land for crops generally if we were allotting it to human food instead of livestock feed.
To add to idiomaddict's great points, the animals don't eat exclusively grass. In Australia (assuming based on your instance): "the latest estimate (2017-18) of annual feed use in Australia is 13.58 million tonnes" (SFMCA).
This includes "cereal grains, legume grains, vegetable protein meals, animal protein meals, cereal milling co-products, minerals and vitamins" as per that same source.
I often see people use the deforestation of the Amazon for soy crops as a sort of gotcha for vegans, even though most soybeans are grown for use as animal feed (in the Amazon, mainly cattle). Incidentally, cattle farms are also responsible for much more deforestation in the Amazon than soybeans, but I digress.
I'll also note that grass-fed beef has often been shown to be as bad (or sometimes worse) for the environment than feedlot beef. It also can't scale to meet current meat consumption.
in fact, most soy beans are grown for oil, and even what is fed to livestock is mostly the byproduct made by pressing beans for oil. but even beyond that, cattle only eat about 7% of the total global soybean crop.
Cattle sure, but if you include poultry and porc that shoots up to around 80% of soy used for feed.
a soybean is only like 1/5 oil. after we've extracted the oil, feeding the meal or cake as it's variously called to animals is a conservation of resources.
Oats, barley, wheat, rye, rice and bamboo are all grasses humans can eat.
Kurzgesagt explained it very well
That would have been correct in the pre-domestication era.
Taking things too seriously, don't most plants benefit from their fruit being eaten as part of their lifecycle?
Taking things too seriously, fruits and vegetables are generally much smaller, and can not speak and hold a baseball bat.
Most fruits and vegetables are smaller, but not the ones running the fruits and vegetables mafia
In fact, only the strongest and most ruthless fruits and vegetables are selected to be enforcers.
fun fact, trains in the UK used to dump the sewage from the onboard toilets right on the tracks.
It wasn't uncommon to see tomato plants growing on/around the tracks.
This is because of the fresh tomatos used in sandwiches filtered through british bumholes
We don't eat the fruits of carrots and onions, though.
Veggie Tales has gone bad since the last time I watched it as a kid...
They tried to do a TMNT crossover episode and got PTSD from Krang
No wonder the bull didn't carrot all.
It's gonna be a beet down
Emotions are really ramping up
There's a soybean on the roof with a sniper rifle
The peas are ready to roll in.
Are any of those ingredients actually likely to be used in a veggie burger? I feel like I usually just see bean burgers, but I don't know much about veggie burger options
Onions should be in everything savory with melded flavors.
Thats very fair actually. I guess carrots also make a good aromatic frankly
Tomatoes would be odd, I've never seen that. Onions, or at a minimum garlic power, should be in any burger recipe, IMO. Carrots would totally work for a veggie burger, I found this recipe that looks pretty tasty and uses both carrots and onions.
But disregarding all that; I very rarely eat burgers that don't have both onions and tomatoes as toppings :P
I've heard the screams of the Vegitables, watching their skins being peeled
Omg i completely forgot this existed
I could take them.
you (and the comic maker) should have called it vegan burger, since veggie normally means vegetarian.
Does it matter? Neither one eats the bull and even if one uses cheese then that doesn't come from the bull at least. Maybe one of his lovers
I've had very good veggie burgers, that were basically tons of vegetables tied together with eggs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KmK0bZl4ILM
Plants have feelings too! https://hesi.nl/en/blog/Music-and-Plant-Growth-How-Sounds-Can-Affect-Plant-Life
I know someone who's going to have an issue with this meme......
Me too, just waiting for her to appear here 😂
Semi relevent
I thought it would be this bit from Pajama Sam