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  • MilitantVegan@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    I remember reading about why greenhouse gas emissions are such a hot topic in environmentalism. The author showed how a lot of the other important environmental degredations we need to fix all interrelate right back to ghgs. Tackling emissions is a nexus problem - solving it simultaneously solves a lot of other environmental problems.

    Veganism is similar. In the first place, we are never going to meet climate goals without also becoming significantly more plant-centric, since the animal ag industry is one of the single largest climate change contributors (in addition to their other environmental harms like fecal pollution and deforestation).

    https://www.surgeactivism.org/aveganworld

    Going vegan also happens to be a form of fascist resistance, as the animal ag industry is one of the largest funders of conservative groups (including Democrats).

    https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?cycle=2024&ind=G2300

    https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?cycle=2024&ind=A04

    Going vegan is likely also one of the best choices you can make for your own health, particularly if you go the whole-food plant-based route.

    https://www.redpenreviews.org/reviews/proof-is-in-the-plants/

    Going vegan as a society is probably the only response that has any hope of averting an h5n1 pandemic - which could wipe out as much as half of the human population when it occurs.

    https://www.surgeactivism.org/notifbutwhenbirdflu

    And if worker rights and worker exploitation matters to you, then you should know that animal ag is one of the worst offenders.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sWyK389BJoI&t=915s

    Going vegan solves many problems, and it’s an issue that can’t be handwaived with the line “but corporations produce 70%” — sorry. No magically ideal government is ever going to get 99% of the population to go vegan. It’s cultural, and that means individual action matters. If even one person adopts a vegan lifestyle, it’s estimated that as many as 200 fewer animals will be slaughtered per year.

    Like it or not, we all have a responsibility to stop animal abuse. Doing so just so happens to help eliminate or at least alleviate a lot of other pressing problems as well.