Veganism: An Engineer's Perspective

First of all, whether something is "sentient" is a bit subjective, and whether eating a sentient being is okay is also quite subjective. If we strike that list item, we are left with the climate change argument.

However, they're also missing a number of other arguments, such as:

- difficulty eating a balanced diet - inconveniencing others (must take into account vegan options when going out to eat with coworkers/clients) - some meat sources don't particularly contribute to climate change (e.g. hunting/fishing on your own)

If your going to try to come up with a deductive argument in support of veganism, you need to take into account all major arguments on all sides of the issue (vegetarianism, piscatarianism, etc).

As such, I'll only accept this argument as a completely subjective argument because the climate change argument (and part of the sentience argument) entirely depends on how you source your meat, leaving the completely subjective sentience argument.

Kite Hill has great cream cheese as well.

"the food vegans would like to eat": vegan/vegetarians already exist, and we study and analyze their diets when determining crop usage, e.g. see reference #5 in the blog post. Or, my personal favorite: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0594-0

tldr; omni diets consume about an order of magnitude more crops in total, so, you know, more animals die in crop production to eat animals than not eating animals...

oooo, also of interest: we actually eat a very small number of crops, 40 crops make up 90% of the global calorie consumption (see ref #4)

Oh yes! Forgot about them.

As an Engineer that don't know nothing about having a farm.

If we want to keep animals alive, now we don't have other choice that taking care of them (and kill them btw). Animals can't live happy, they will die, no matter what. The sentient logic is stupid. All they wanted is to live, yeah and all I wanted is to live in a good world, without doing stupid works because Engineer take all the good one.