> The argument that meat is somehow a better use of land is incorrect however.
Actually it's a fact.
> Most calories are currently grown to feed animals. Typically in mono crops.
Yes calories that we can't otherwise access is fed to animals who can use it and in turn we eat the animals. Magic. Also, those "mono crops" are grown on poor quality land and in harsh environments where we can't grow avocados, oranges, almonds, etc. You get the idea? If we went vegan, we'd have to level many times more land with richer and warmer climates to grow enough to barely, inefficiently and poorly feed the population.
> These are usually drenched in petrochemicals.
Petrochemicals are fertilizer, so yes, they are "drenched in it" like all farmed products. Of course if we turned to veganism, we'd had to use many times more petrochemicals, pesticides, etc. Really great for the environment. /s
> I get it — I went through a difficult few weeks when I stopped 5 years ago.
Me too. Sounds about right, around the time of the social media propaganda led vegan craze. I got caught up in that nonsense too and even went around with others downvote brigading and spewing lies and misinformation and all sorts of vegan propaganda online. Hopefully you wake up before you do lasting damage to your health.
> It was like giving up cigarettes, alcohol, or sugar.
You mean it was like taking up smoking, drinking, etc. Your health, energy, mental ability, etc all decline.
> But during WWII when all the good meat was going to the front lines, the government ran a massive campaign to get people to eat liver.
Great. Liver is a great nutritious piece of meat and everyone should eat it. I don't know why we primarily go for muscle meats and disregard liver. A bit of butter and onions with liver can be as tasty as a ribeye steak.
> But they successfully changed people’s habits.
Considering how cheap liver is, no they didn't.
> If we were able to do that, I believe we can convince people to eat less meat.
Actually we should convince people to eat more meat ( or more kinds of meat ). It's sad that we mostly go for steak/roast and ignore offal, tail, tongue, etc.
> Sources: “The Carbon Farming Solution”, “The Power of Habit.”
Seems familiar. Sounds about right. I hope one day you wake and realize how silly it all is and how you wasted so much of your life on nonsense.
If you care about the environment and people's health, then veganism is your enemy. If you want globalism, virtue signaling and feeling superior then veganism is the right cult for you. Veganism is like a virus. Once you've been infected, you either die or develop an immunity to it. That's why I encourage more people to try veganism and learn about farming and your food. Most sane people will come to abhor veganism like the cultish virus it is. The remaining few will either die from poor diet or cheat like the "healthy vegans" who eat meat on the side.