Very much so! Check out reasons why here:
http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/en鈥?/a>
http://www.vegan.org/about_veganism/envi鈥?/a>
http://www.vegansociety.com/resources/en鈥?/a>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment鈥?/a>Is the vegan diet an environmentally friendly diet?
Yeah there is, Don't try and cover up for the non-vegans who call themselves vegans and anti vegans. I deal with people attacking veganism all the time. I see it here I see it talking with folks and reading other websites. The definition is constantly get misinterpreted as doing whatever.
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In this day and age, where everything is produced via mass farming, not entirely, no. It is less detrimental to the environment than an omni diet because raising livestock uses a LOT of resources. It takes a lot of land, a lot of water, a lot of feed, etc to raise livestock, which makes a bigger impact on the environment than plant farming alone.
So, if you're going for environmentally-friendly, a vegan diet is the best option but it doesn't take your impact to 0.Is the vegan diet an environmentally friendly diet?
Its not anymore environmentally friendly than my diet.
It really depends on the vegan. If you are a vegan that grows much of your own food and or buys local organic produce then yes maybe. If you are a vegan that eats produce from a grocery store that ships in all of their produce from large produce companies, that use insecticides, clears more land for more produce farming, and uses slave labor then no.
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freeyour... Veganism maybe more than just a diet but the diet is a BIG part of it.
Maybe. But not always. Today you can walk into a supermarket and buy fresh produce, veggies/grains from around the world. Vegans love to promote those exotic (quorm, quiona) foods without giving a thought to the environmental cost of getting them from their exotic locations to their local supermarket. Not to mention the socal cost to native peoples as their dietary staple gets popular with vegetarians in wealthy countries and they can no longer afford them. This lady gave up being vegan because of health issues, but she has a point on eating locally raised/processed pork and tofu:
"The pork I buy is taken from pigs raised by a couple named Keith and Kate. They run a family farm on Lovers Lane, about five minutes from my house. Keith has a beard like my partner's. When I met him at the market, and asked if we could visit the farm, he said, "Oh sure, we do potlucks once a month or so."
The pigs they raise roam freely over their land, munching on acorns (which are very fat this year -- supposedly that says something about how much rain we'll see), mushrooms, shrubbery, scraps, and other treats. Pigs consume waste while producing soil fertility, making them an advantageous addition to a sustainable farm. These pigs are heritage breeds, which is the animal equivalent of heirloom vegetables -- they haven't been genetically-modified to be so enormous that their feet can't support their weight (as is the case for many of the animals I've seen at farm sanctuaries).
Kate tells me that when it's time for the pigs to die, they're slaughtered on-site, in the middle of a meal, in such abrupt circumstances that they don't feel fear or pain. Then, as is required by USDA standards, the animal is transported to a packaging center in Eureka (three hours away) or a smokehouse in Ft. Bragg (on the coast). Then the meat is returned to Lovers Lane and distributed thusly.
Now let's look at the tofu. Vast quantities of land are razed in the production of soy. This means that every living thing is removed from that place, including microorganisms. This is the case, by the way, even in organic production. Soybean plants are monocropped and then harvested each year. Because there are very few integrated soybean farms (meaning that not much else is grown on that land except soy), soil fertility is wasted and nothing else is allowed to flourish on that land -- of plant or animal origin.
After the soy is harvested, it's... transferred to a processing plant, I assume. The beans are dried and turned into tofu using... well. I'm not sure how it's done, except that it includes boiling, a coagulant, and pressing into squares. I wouldn't be able to identify such a station and I don't know what happens there. I don't know how much the workers are paid. I don't know who owns that operation or how much plastic is used to process the tofu. I really don't know very much about this process at all.
Prepared tofu is transferred into plastic containers, covered with plastic wrap, and transported to a distribution center by air freight? or refrigerated ground shipping? from somewhere in the Midwest -- I have no idea where. From the distribution center the tofu is packed into boxes and sent out to the co-op where I buy it and recycle the plastic container, which is probably shipped off to China for processing.
So what I see, when I look at this quantitatively, is a preservation of life as a result of choosing the pork. When I choose to eat bacon or sausage from a local farm, one animal dies. When I choose to eat tofu from the Midwest, countless beings are destroyed, and soil fertility and topsoil are blown away on the winds of industry."
http://www.chicken-tender.com/2010/11/he鈥?/a>
Plus most beef in the US is raised on land that is not suitable for farming. Giving up beef won't give us much more land for crop production, but it would take a lot of healthy calories out of the food supply.Is the vegan diet an environmentally friendly diet?
Veganism is not a diet:
"The word 'veganism' denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to end the idea of animals as property and exclude all forms of intentional exploitation of, use of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing, research or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, including people and the environment.
In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals."
However yes by definition it has to be better for the environment because exploiting animals and using animals is not good for the environment and animal free alternatives should benefit everyone including the environment.
There is never anything good that has come from using animals and killing them for food, clothing, research, sport, entertainment or any other reason. It is all stuff we don't need or can harm us in the end. You mess with others and it will come back on you eventually.
Stupid people like to argue that "vegens eat all dat soy and corn duuuuuuuuuuuuh" but you look at the animal agribusiness, those animals are eating most of the soy and corn and plus all the stuff that is in the processed foods that a lot of meat eaters eat plus all the soy and corn going to feed other animals we use not for food but other sick reasons. Basically those who use animals for any purpose are going to be in general using more corn and soy and natural resources to do the horrible things they do.
They also like to use the PVC argument which doesn't hold up because leather production is so much worse and also PVC is not really vegan and not really worn that much most vegan are going to go with more natural non animal based fibers when they can.
However everything humyns do is environmentally unfriendly, we are not friends of the earth, we are her enemies and yes we can lessen our harm by being vegan and not exploiting those who live upon her and also doing what little we can to help stop some of the environmental destruction but in all reality we are the problem. No animal or natural disasters could cause the harm we have caused. However killing each other won't help and just saying "screw it" makes it worse, we just need to stop making children stop exploiting animals and the environment and make ourselves extinct naturally through not breeding any longer.
Oh and Locavores are full of B.S. the whole food miles thing is a total load. It is just a scam to make more money and higher priced same cruelty and exploitation foods. Most of the locavores will import anything they cannot get local they will fly on planes and ship all sorts of stuff around the country and the world. They don't care about anyone but themselves and are just in it to be trendy. Vasile St膬nescu did a great piece taking their whole movement apart and exposing their B.S.:
http://www.upc-online.org/thinking/green鈥?/a>
Edit: Veganism is not a diet, diet is a part of veganism but it goes much further than that. Your question implies that veganism is a diet and simply just a diet when it much more than that. What I said above is not besides the point it is the point. People keep assuming veganism is this or that when it has a clear definition. It has always had a clear definition and saying it is something it is not is silly and needed to be addressed. Someone out there has to stick up for actual veganism instead of just vegetarian diets.
By its nature, any diet that utilizes sustainable agriculture as its basis is environmentally friendly. Its use of organic agriculture doubles its friendliness.
yes
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