If the entire world was put on a vegan diet?

Do you think the world would be a better place if the entire world was put on a vegan diet?|||Although I wouldn't personally want to be put into a vegan diet... if the entire global population changed to eating veggies only, I think we'd all be healthier on balance, assuming that a variety of proteins were still consumed. More diseases would crop up due to lacking meat-based protiens, and iron, but there would also be less heart disease.





It's a pretty drastic change for what I would believe to be an "slight" benefit to the overall health of human kind. I certainly wouldn't vote for it. Those who work in physically demanding jobs would definitely not benefit. When was the last time you met a very well-built vegan?





Also, there are different degrees of vegan.





I'm guessing you're feeling bad about the use of animals for human benefit. Humans depend on animals for all sorts of things. If you did not want to live at the expense of an animal, you would have to avoid makeup, medicines, and many kinds of clothing. Not realistic.|||absolutley not, i choose what i eat. dont be such a food faschist|||nope. im glad your at least not answering your own question in a rant before we get a chance to.|||entire world? ha ha that would be funny telling the inuits that they have to grow a garden at the north pole ha ha ha ha ha|||Vegan...NO. Vegetarian...YES.


If you are so concerned about the people who have given you "less than perfect" answers to your query, then WHY not give them a website address to start their EDUCATIONAL PROCESS that you seem so disgruntled over.*


You never help a cause by making people feel poorly about their lack of knowledge of a subject that is not very well known or accepted in society yet.


*Try being a helper %26amp; assist others to learn about your VEGAN ways %26amp; why it is a good thing.|||We are designed to be omnivorous. If we eat no animal products at all, we need to rely on various fungi and bean products to provide the missing proteins and vitamins. That's OK for those of us living in the prosperous West, but there's not enough to feed the whole world.|||NO!|||No, there would be a lot of people in bad moods thats for sure.





More of the population will have to turn veggie because the relentless population growth cannot be supported by the inefficient meat production. Thats the best you can hope for if turning the world vegan is your agenda.





Although I have a feeling mankind will find some obscene way of solving that problem with multi-level stacking crates or something.





Nice to see your question is bringing out the anti-vegan cliches though. I've missed those, haven't seen them for, ooohh, an hour or so.





Rolyn,





When you say "We also need animal protein which tofu, salads etc can't provide"





Can you explain ? I've been veggie for 28 years and don't eat tofu so I'm wondering if i might be dead. If what you say is true and i "need" the protien you speak of, without it, i must be dead. I'm worried now.





Or maybe your statement is wrong.





Please let me know which protien meat provides that i cannot get elsewhere so i can learn





thanks,|||just give me a rope|||I think we'd eventually be overrun with animals and many people would lose their jobs on farms etc. so no.|||no everyone would have gas and squirty poo|||Yes!!I think it is a great idea...unfortunately it can only ever just be fantasy...and never reality! :(|||Clean up on your grammer and spelling.





Its "too" and its "flabbergasted"








Loser.|||No, the animal populations would outnumber us, which is not good





And we'll all have cabbage breath lol yuck!|||No offense to vegans but I think it's a bit too far not having anything to do with animal produce. I'm vegetarian and I find it hard enough to find things I actually like that have the nutrients and protein in them, so I can't even begin to imagine how hard it must be for someone who doesn't even drink milk or use butter.





I know in the past people have relied on animals for survival, but I don't think that humans weren't designed to eat meat. If we were we'd probably have sharp teeth like wildcats..|||No I don't.|||no, humans are omnivores!


By the way Rolyn R, i love sandals and petuli oil. i also love meat, fish and cheese (i do get your point though hehehe!)|||First of all...some of the things people said above here is just laughable and stupid...Naive, really. *rolls eyes*





Well theres enough protein in many plants and Alternative [non-Dairy] milks, like Soya, oat and rice Milks, so no worrys there. Do some bl**dy research!!! (We don't even need huge amounts of protien as people have been brainwashed into "knowing"...its wrong...and dairy milk is half cow pee and pus and god knows what else might of went in there you can't see. Then its baby gets killed....most of the time, if they're no use to the farmer).





Then theres the the factory farms making mass amounts of animals being born so thats probably how people are getting thier dumb thoughts on it, so the world would be far from over run with other animals.... Animals get forced into pregancy, they don't have ANY freedom in a lot of farms (especially the Factory farms)!!





Theres sooo many great foods and recipes you can use on a Plant based diet and believe me, it would be just as fun and interesting using all the other choices of non animal products in the world, than using whats boring and easier to get - Animals and thier body fluids and skins....Last time i went shopping, i bought loads of Vegan stuff, and plants and Veg....It lasted me over 2 weeks now and guess what? It was CHEAPER. It lasted and i wasn't buying BS!





I say defiantly adopt the plant based diet (or Vegan as I am and many other GREAT people are.... :P )


It's so fulfilling knowing your foods and clothes are cruelty free. It infuriates me the way so many animals get tortured and abused just for the stupid and pathetic humans!!!





The world would not be over run at all....|||Then we'd all be as bonkers as you.|||You are so correct Chunky, I mean Crusty, I mean Christy.|||Don't be silly. A narcissistic, biologically problematic and ethically ridiculous diet? I'd like to see anyone try!|||Hello,





(ANS) I guess it does depend upon exactly how you define a "better place?".





However, as an ex Vegan and now vegetarian I do agree that the worlds ability to feed every single human being on the planet would be improved. If the entire worlds wheat harvest didn't mainly go on feeding cattle in order to create meat, meat for ham burgers %26amp; Mc Donalds, then yes! I do think that would be an improvement.





**Sadly, a large % of the human population (humanity) likes dead flesh for eating. Don't ask me why, because it fails to make any rational logical sense to me as a person who hasn't eaten meat in well over 4 decades. But there you go thats human beings for you!!





**Certainly a great deal of pollution could easily be prevented, money %26amp; time could be saved, and a large amount of methane, %26amp; CO2 could be saved too.





**The world may yet be literally forced to go vegan whether they like it or not when the worst extremes of global climate change %26amp; global warming actually become a reality, when crop failure %26amp; food shortages happen.





Regards Ivan|||In my world, it would be absolutely glorious!





If everybody thought that killing was not acceptable, for all animals (humans included) then maybe peace would be the majority.





Oh, you said vegan diet . . .not vegan lifestyle. Well then. It would still be better, but not glorious........|||Haha! As if we'd get over run by animals!





If everybody stopped eating animal products then there would be no need for the animals to be bred for that purpose... When the animals died, they died. Then after time, there would not be any farms that breed animals strictly for eating. Just because nobody eats animal products anymore its not like animal farmers would just release the animals into the nearest field! Yeah, some farmers would be a bit annoyed, but farmers harvest vegetables too... So they wouldnt all lose their jobs.





I think the world would be a much better place if everybody went vegan. Maybe my opinion is biased because I'm already vegan... But everybody would be a lot healthier too. Not to mention all the animal cruelty that would be stopped. *sigh* Sometimes i really do wish everybody was a vegan|||No. It would increase violence if meat eaters were forced to eat stuff they don't like.





Like I always say - Save a Tree, eat a beaver..............|||No.


It's too expensive and impractical.


People would become ill and fatigued.


And cows would take over the planet.|||OMG, I can not believe the crap I HAVE JUST READ. Personally you can eat what you want, but people stop being stupid! – no really go do some research. – more and more medical research is showing that we should eat less – if not no meat!





When was the last time you heard a doctor say – “eat more meat!” – Usually they say cut down on meat -


1) beans cost a lot less then meat! so more people would have food.


1a) people would not die, as many people are veggies and vegans that are perfectly happy! Millions of people. Infact less people would die. See point 5.


2)Stop with the protein obsession – you can get protein from many things that are not meat


3)Animals would not over populate us, because it is the industrial meat factories that unnaturally + overly populate the cows + pigs + chickens to meet the demands of meat eating people in the developed countries


4)There would be less heart disease. And fat people walking around. – go to any shopping mall, and you’ll see so many fat waddling people!


5)There would be less world hunger, - it takes over 6 pounds of grain to make one pound of meat – erm,, 6 pounds that could be feed to starving people in this world!


6)Mother earth would be less damaged – go read the UN report which said that the high demands of livestock have more damaging effects on the planet then all the cars!


7)Higher ethics – honestly is it right for an animal to suffer for years just so you can eat for a few moments! – really to me that sounds very selfish!


8)No you would not be less intelligent, - go look up which scientists were veggies! – Albert Einstein – please do not tell me you are more intelligent then the god father of science because you eat dead animals!


9)Yes there was a time – like thousands of years ago, when we did not have much else to eat but meat- but times have changed!


10) Animals do eat meat – but they do not grow and torture other animals for years on end!





Honestly if you just say you eat meat – because you like it fine, - but do not make dumb assumptions. – do research read. Learn. – try not to go to peta, - but go to places like the UN report, or the medical research web sites.|||I think that eventually, yes, it would be, both for people and animals. All those folks who say, "But I can't live without [insert product of innocent animal's potentially lifelong suffering here]!" would have to adjust, the way us veggies did when we transitioned, and the shift would be rocky, given the large number of factory-farmed animals currently waiting to be killed, but no matter what anyone says, people don't NEED animal products. The most problematic issue would be ensuring that small pastoral societies could access adequate food and nutrition, but if we put half the money into that that we put into killing animals needlessly, it would be no trouble at all.|||Yes. For us and the animals.


It's a lot healthier to be a vegan, so there wouldn't be as many cases of obesity.


And as for the whole "we would be overrun with animals" thing....wrong. We breed animals to kill them, the ones that we dont' breed live their lives away from us. If we didn't breed them to eat them, there wouldn't be as many, therefore, we wouldn't be "overrun" with animals.|||I think the world would be far more healthy, but its not for me|||No.