Vegans consume fewer plants than anyone else. It takes a LOT of plants to raise a cow, pig, or chicken. From an economic point of view, meat is a way of refining mountains of cheap, plentiful, safe plant products into a scarce, harmful and addictive luxury product. This comes up a lot, you'd be amazed how many plants rights activists your average vegan runs into.

[+] SupraMario@lemmy.world -22 points 6 days ago (42 children)

Unless you count grass and non-human consumables and non-potable water...sure...until then that's bullshit.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

What figures are you basing your ignorance off of? The majority of the plants humans grow through crop-based agriculture are fed to non-human animals. Animal ag is one of the largest consumers of fresh (ie "potable") water. There are ten animals living in human possession for every human on Earth. Without intensive plant agriculture, we could not possibly feed them all. Grass and run-off is not what is producing your food.

And since we are specifically discussing the hypothetical suffering of plants, why wouldn't you count grass? You're triggered.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 5 days ago

The majority of the plants humans grow through crop-based agriculture are fed to non-human animals.

It's not that clear, it depends on the country. See the part about share of cereals dedicated to animal feed in this link, it's about 15% in the USA and the rest of the feed is byproducts of crops used for human reasons. https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

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