many people are vegan. meat production increases energy year.

or because they recognized how lazy and dismissive your response was, and they don’t care to be patronized.

no, I didn’t

no one ever demanded you justify your decision to eat plants

It’s not an interesting debate.

so don’t engage, but don’t pretend you’ve rebutted anything.

you’re not engaging with the other person at all. you’re treating them like they are a child to be taught. you have no idea whether they’ve seen these arguments before. you just threw a link at them.

being vegan won’t change how much water is used by agriculture

I didn’t say anything about you rebutting your decisions. I’m talking about you’re response to someone’s own decisions.

this has to be the height of intellectual laziness and bad faith. you’re not actually engaging with the person who typed the comment at all.

“use” is a synonym of “exploit”

so, yes

putting a phrase on a vegan bingo card is insufficient to rebutt the argument.

if being vegan made a difference this might be true.

no. veganism eschews exploitation of animals for food

it has definitely reduced the current overall meat consumption in comparison to the scenario of this person having continued to eat meat.

this can’t be proven. what makes you think more meat could possibly have been produced?

you seem to understand that being vegetarian hasn’t actually reduced the amount of meat produced, and you haven’t disputed that the environmental issues are from the production. you’re just angrily agreeing with me.

the meat industry doesn’t need to provide anything. they choose to do that. eating meat doesn’t cause more to be produced.

this is a straw man. it’s bad faith

regardless of your excuse, just choosing not to eat meat hasn’t actually helped save the planet.

illiteracy can be solved.

lots of people avoid meat. meat production continues to increase every year. the problem isn’t with eating