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I don’t really see why a vegan option isn’t considered vegetarian. Does it have to contain milk, eggs or honey to be acceptable?

When I was vegetarian, I ate at vegan places for years without really being aware of the difference - all I cared about was not eating meat, and I don’t remember thinking “this doesn’t feel complete without cheese” or anything.

Transportation overall is a huge emitter. Transportation of most food is only a very small part of that food’s emissions, from what I understand:

“GHG emissions from transportation make up a very small amount of the emissions from food and what you eat is far more important than where your food traveled from.”

(Source: https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local)

Some context for the scale of this:

“[F]armed poultry today makes up 70% of all birds on the planet, with just 30% being wild. The picture is even more stark for mammals – 60% of all mammals on Earth are livestock, mostly cattle and pigs, 36% are human and just 4% are wild animals.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/21/human-ra...

Effective altruism, I guess?