It does matter. In the uk being vegan is a protected trait and they have a legal obligation to not force you to change your morals. unlike what others have said vegetarian isn't a protected trait and gets less protection.

So crazy that they just get a small fine for such large scale environmental damage. There should be prison sentences!

I'm still here!

vegan here who grew up on farms. Just because you don't know them doesn't mean they aren't common.

There's loads, my best recommendations are algea oil or sea weed, soya, nuts, seeds take your pick.

It absolutely could. Not with the current diet but if there was a shift to less meat then we could substantially reduce the amount of land used in food production.

There is no spoom!

Been enjoying your comments here. Hopefully the hiatus isn't too long.

I really hope we can evolve past seeing animals as food.

Straight out not the case. lots of animals are on farmable land. Also animals eat lots of our crops eg 80% of the worlds soy. Here's one (of many possible ones) reference stating that we would only need 25% of the current agricultural land if the world went vegan. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/01/28/if-everyone-were-vegan-only-a-quarter-of-current-farmland-would-be-needed

Yea that's definitely me

Only 69% left to sort out. Nice! Glad to see positive steps hopefully the rest of the world gets on board.

hey I've seen that film!

Interesting. Oddly enough the lowest rates of osteoporosis occur in countries with the lowest rates of dairy consumption and there appears to be evidence that it could be causal.

I really hope green continues to see a big boost!

These monopolys are becoming a bit scary particularly when they are propped up by the government...

It's such an afront to democracy that the ruling party was allowed to change the years they are in power from 4 to 5. We would have had that election by now...

Yeah, you're right it's a different thing to doing it in cities, cooking is important. In my experience, I have lots of vegan rural friends however that's due to my social circle and isn't representive. In the uk apparently we are on 4.7% vegan now (1567% increase in 10 years) its become noticeably more over the last few years but probably not to the same level as cities.

They are ace! Extremophiles are so interesting. One of the most prolific species on the planet and they are being considered as a potential to help terraform planets such as Mars https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334603822_The_Lichen_Symbiosis_Lichen_Extremophiles_and_Survival_on_Mars

He wasn't, it's well documented he wasn't vegetarian this was spread as anti vegetarian propegand.