Stronger reasons for being vegan than not (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by FredVegrox@lemmy.world to c/vegan@lemmy.world

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The abuse and slaughter of animals is a primary reason for any to be vegan. But there are the environments being ruined with animal agriculture, so there is environmental reason to take being vegan seriously. Likewise with all the more resources being used for animal agriculture, and all the water, and all the land, for it, and there is the contribution to emissions associated with climate change with the warming of this planet. Having just all whole food from plants is also very healthy for us. Being vegan is done for the animals but all these things as more reason make a strong argument for it. And I found it is not hard at all.

top 4 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

For me it's because of the workers.

Hurting non-human animals, ultimately, hurts the human workers and human communities that have to do it. Numerous psychological studies have found that slaughterhouse work is enormously damaging to the human mind, and statistically slaughterhouses are found to increase violent crime and suicide and addiction and spousal abuse. To my shame, personal experience affirms that killing animals is harmful to psychological health.

Once I made that connection between the suffering of human and non-human animals I knew I couldn't participate in the consumption of animal products.

[-] washipp@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

For me its also the fact, that keeping animals requires a lot of resouces, especially meat. So this is a really inefficient way to eat.

Instead of using crops that humans can eat, crops for animals are being used.

[-] sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The basis of understanding the trophic levels is paramount. Whenever one consumes from a trophic level, one is destroying more from the levels below. If people decided tomorrow to only consume carnivorous animals, they would be requiring even more animals, and therefore even more plants, meaning even more microorganisms. The quantity of energy one gets from one animal is less than what the energy intake of that animal was. Always. The larger the animal, the larger the loss. This does not change. Not even in the scavenger's rule of the wild. Not even amongst other organisms in this planet. Never. It's basic understanding of entropy and biology, but somehow this eludes the general population. However, the complexity of how trophic balance is achieved is more complex than this.

But still, this is why consuming from the lowest level possible ensures the lowest destruction possible. And why I am a big supporter of Precision Fermentation. Using bacterial and microbial life to grow our food as directly as possible is ingenious.

Sustainability, veganism, ethics... it's all the same. We should all aspire to live our lives ensuring the minimum destruction possible. And if one uses one's energy for the protection and the betterment of all life, not just oneself, or just animals, but plants, mycelium life, and microorganisms as well, the better it is to life itself on earth, regardless of species and categorization.

Syntropy vs entropy.

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah but they're toasty though.

this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2025

12 points (100.0% liked)

vegan

3302 readers

35 users here now

Please also check out Lemmy.vg for a great set of well-run communities for vegan news, science, cooking, circlejerking. It is a nice, cozy, all-in-one space for vegans.

We ask that the you have an understanding on what veganism is before engaging in this community.

If you think you have been banned erroneously, please get in contact with one of the other mods for appeals.

Moderator reports may not federate properly and may delay moderator action. Please DM an active mod if an abusive comment remains after reporting it.

Welcome

Welcome to c/vegan@lemmy.world. Broadly, this community is a place to discuss veganism. Discussion on intersectional topics related to the animal rights movement are also encouraged.

What is Veganism?

'Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals ...'

— abridged definition from The Vegan Society

Rules

The rules are subject to change, especially upon community feedback.

Discrimination is not tolerated. This includes speciesism.
Topics not relating to veganism are subject to removal.
Posts are to be as accessible as practicable:
- embedded images of text require alt-text
- posts with an image of text should have a transcription in the body or alt-text
- paywalled articles must have an accessible non-paywalled link;
- use the original source whenever possible for a news article.
Content warnings are required for triggering content.
Bad-faith carnist rhetoric & anti-veganism are not allowed, as this is not a space to debate the merits of veganism. Anyone is welcome here, however, and so good-faith efforts to ask questions about veganism may be given their own weekly stickied post in the future.
- before jumping into the community, we encourage you to read examples of common fallacies here.
- if you're asking questions about veganism, be mindful that the person on the other end is trying to be helpful by answering you and treat them with at least as much respect as they give you.
Posts and comments whose contents – text, images, etc. – are largely created by a generative AI model are subject to removal. We want you to be a part of the vegan community, not a multi-head attention layer running on a server farm.
Posts linking to Twitter/X or any similar site will be removed.
No brigading, either off-site or on-site. An incitement to brigade includes two elements: a call to disruptive action and a specific direction outside of this community in which to take that action. Exceptions include:
- Calls to boycott.
- Calls to in-person protest of a government, high-profile individual, or company/organization.
- Votes provided they have a sufficiently broad target audience or provably effective controls against vote brigading.
- Petitions.
All Lemmy.World Terms of Service also apply.