Veganism: An Engineer's Perspective
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Veganism: An Engineer's Perspective
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#2I enjoyed the succinctness of this post. Not sure if I agree that there's amazing vegan cheese though ;)
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#3I'm diabetic and allergic to legumes. It's nearly impossible for me to get enough protein or complete protein without excessive intake of either legume derived protein or carbs.
Beyond that, I like meat and feel that eating meat is part of a natural state of being. I find that factory farming has other issues and most don't eat enough head to tail profile for appropriate nutrition though.
Aside: I think another large issue is that most people aren't eating enough healthy balanced fat profiles, and get too many fats higher in linoleic acid which is more problematic. Most natural sources of unrefined and specifically animal protein are generally 0.5g fat to 1g protein or higher. The eating of animals combined with cooking food are what allowed homosapiens to evolve. Not that I fault those who chose a vegetarian lifestyle, though the religious zealotry is a bit annoying.
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#4Brilliant. Thanks for compiling this information.
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#5> I’ve created a set of three simple statements (with supporting references) that represent the fundamental arguments that brought me to veganism:
>It’s unnecessary for humans to consume animal products, i.e. we can thrive on a vegan diet [1, 2, 3].
> Consuming animal products is one of the largest individual contributions to climate change [4, 5, 6].
> Consuming animal products results in slaughtering ~75 billion sentient farm animals each year — animals that want to live [7, 8].
> Logically, from the above three points, it follows that consuming animal products is unnecessary and causes destruction to the environment as well as billions of sentient animals.
Logically, this is textbook circular reasoning or a tautological fallacy. The author's three points are that consuming animal products is unnecessary and causes destruction to the environment as well as billions of sentient animals. To then say that the _exact same three things as the three points_ follow from those same three points is circular reasoning.
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#6I enjoyed the succinctness of this post. Not sure if I agree that there's amazing vegan cheese though ;)
I'm a big fan of Tree Line and Miyoko's nut cheeses, and Chao fermented tofu cheese slices.
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#7> I’ve created a set of three simple statements (with supporting references) that represent the fundamental arguments that brought me to veganism: >It’s unnecessary for humans to consume animal products, i.e. we can thrive on a vegan diet [1, 2, 3]. > Consuming animal products is one of the largest individual contributions to climate change [4, 5, 6]. > Consuming animal products results in slaughtering ~75 billion se…
The blog post may benefit from an editor, but those three points are supported by the footnotes, whose very references – but not content – you included in your quotation. The footnotes themselves constitute more than half the post and include citations of published studies.
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#8> I’ve created a set of three simple statements (with supporting references) that represent the fundamental arguments that brought me to veganism: >It’s unnecessary for humans to consume animal products, i.e. we can thrive on a vegan diet [1, 2, 3]. > Consuming animal products is one of the largest individual contributions to climate change [4, 5, 6]. > Consuming animal products results in slaughtering ~75 billion se…
True enough - instead of "Logically, from the above three points, it follows that", just "In short," or something would be far better.
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#9> Consuming animal products results in slaughtering ~75 billion sentient farm animals each year
I am sympathetic but people do not seem to understand that a huge number of animals – probably many more than this worldwide – are destroyed when fields are plowed.
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#10> Consuming animal products results in slaughtering ~75 billion sentient farm animals each year I am sympathetic but people do not seem to understand that a huge number of animals – probably many more than this worldwide – are destroyed when fields are plowed.
totally agree!
however, we plow fields mostly to feed the animals we eat...