What would happen if everyone stopped eating meat tomorrow? - Carolyn Beans
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- Опубліковано 3 січ 2025
- Explore the possibilities and challenges of what a vegetarian world could look like if we all immediately stopped eating meat.
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Imagine if a wizard of meatless dining suddenly appeared on Earth and with one wave of a wand wiped away all meat from our shelves- along with any desire to eat it. Farm animals destined for food vanish, whisked away to another planet. What happens in the following days, years, and even millennia? Carolyn Beans explores what a vegetarian world could look like.
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i would like to see a TED-ED on What would happen if everyone stopped believing in and practicing religion.
Hey 👋!!! I developed great interest on your comment... I would just like to know what inspired you for such a thought? No hate, just curious
I have thought about a world with PROOF of god. 100% undeniable proof. Or 100% proof he doesn’t exist. Either way society would never be the same.
@@atharvashinde1375 religion is what has partially ruined the world and its people. I would like to know what would truly happen if it didn’t exist.
@@benjaminlehman3221 never the same. Yes.
New one would prop up
Do another video of what happens if everyone just cut down on the amount of meat they eat by like 50%. Or even less, even cut by 25%. Because many people will say "I couldn't give it up forever" ( even in the comments here, many are saying it) but they don't realize that even cutting down would make a huge difference if large numbers of people did it. Millions of people going meatless one day a week would improve the environment more than a small number of people being perfect vegans all the time.
Go tour a slaughter house. that'll change your can't do attitude real fast
@@tf5pZ9H5vcAdBpI have? And it hasn’t?
i think even if people decided to stop preparing and eating meat at home but kept consuming meat when going out to restaurants that would be of great help, a change of habits is necessary
It should have been "cutting all beef"
@@chickenleg440it's just not true that eating less meat won't reduce emissions and thereby reduce climate change. Also it will reduce so much animal suffering
This topic literally appeared in my passage 2 IELTS test 💀
LMAO imagine u saw this before that
OK
cool
I was literally looking for videos for my IELTS students when I came across your comment lol
Dear TED-ED team, can you include your sources please? Thanks
Trust! Me!!!
Science! 🤣🤣🤣
Exactly!
The video description includes a link to the Ted Ed article with hyperlinked sources.
It's definitely not ideal to do things this way, but it also took me only three clicks to get there without having to search endlessly.
@@kk-fo3zx I see it now, thanks 👍
I was Vegan for about two years and with eating the right things to get all my nutrients and I still had trouble with Iron deffencies and feeling weak. I agree with the concept of eating less meat, however, I feel some of the information in this article may be outdated and does not bring up the impacts of how certain diets (especailly Veg and Vegan can impact individuals differently through out their life span and development (impacting hormone levels in puberty).
It will be interesting to see what this channel puts an update video to this with more peer reviewed scientific data
All the peer reviewed scientific studies have a general consensus that a vegan (not even a vegetarian) diet is fully sufficient including for iron deficiency. Please look at the sources and do your own further research.
No, veganism has been proven extensively to be nutritionally sufficient and even reduce the risk of many common chronic diseases as well as all-cause mortality risk. There are many vegan sources of iron that are easy to find. If you had issues with iron that is a problem with your planning not reflective of a vegan diet as a whole. I would recommend you to do some more research on this topic.
Agree. And to protect the environment there are many other ways we can do like choosing bicycles in our daily life, I believe celebrities and their private plane emit far more than cows lol.
@@schnappi-su4pd you believing does not make it true though. I'm not trying to diss you, just genuinely trying to discuss a point here. Scientific evidence says otherwise. Animal agriculture plays a huge role, definitely bigger, in climate change and global warming than celebrities flying in their private jets (that's horrible too but one is more damaging than other)
For all those who claim a strict vegan diet is sufficient in all nutrients, I would love to read their sources, I mean, hard evidence please.
Do one about what would happen if we stopped extracting oil.
We dont have time for that
vitamine B12 is only found in Animals and fongus. So we also would need to consume a lot more mushrooms or yeast.
No B12 is also found in yoghurt.
@@AnnanypratapSingh i should have clarified "animal products".
@@AnnanypratapSingh😂😂and yogurts come from yes animals
@@khatabayoop1613 it's about not eating meat. I don't think yoghurt is meat, yeah ?
Not a problem with eating more fungi/yeasts/mushrooms. Or just take a suplement.
I would love this video but with more hypotheticals about the negatives that comes with this scenario:
Would corporates mass plant some greens, leading to sickness and mass death of insects?
Would grass-eating animals be hunted down the same way wolves and cheetahs are now?
Those types of inquiries.
Agreed, the campaign's goal shouldn't be going "meatless" but reducing consumption and waste wherever possible. Either end of the spectrum is not sustainable.
Simple answer, yes.
If there's an opportunity, someone will take it.
One thing people don't understand about meat consumption is that it isn't only about meat.
To produce meat you need to feed the animals, and to feed the animals you farm enormous parts of land.
The land required to feed so many animals is actually more than what you would need to feed a full vegan human population. These are just facts.
So, the area of farmed land would on the contrary decrease.
How would humanity cope with the lack of protein and calorie dense foods?
How could we ever cope with the impossibly large freshwater usage. Agriculture is the largest freshwater drain of any nation.
@@BioTheHuman grass aren’t farmed
I think it’s incredibly optimistic to think that a lot of the land used for meat production could be used for farming in the same efficiency. I also suspect those farmers who breed house and care for animals could possibly become destitute given the demand and price decrease of crops. I know it’s a thought experiment and eating less meat is a good idea in many cases, but this ignores a salient fact: 12% of Americans account for 50% of beef consumption. Have the actual externalities of meat production paid for by the producers and therefore consumers and the problem gets much easier to solve.
The average US cattle farm is 418 acres. Hoarding that much land requires a level of wealth that is guaranteed to be resilient to drastic market changes. On the subject of efficiency, yes, it would definitely take years for cattle farms to recover and be fertile for any sort of crop, as dense presence of livestock severely degrades soil fertility. What is incredibly optimistic IMO is considering anyone would a) get elected or b) sustain power in the US while holding a strong meat-taxing agenda, or that any other country or international organization could step in and force the US to solve this problem.
It's not the land used for animals themselves but the farmland used for growing the feed for those animals that can now be used to grow crops we can eat ourselves. If I recall correctly we're using way more farmland to grow the feed then that we would need if we grow and eat the crops ourselves instead of feeding it to animals and then eating their meat or products. Check our 2:07.
Do you think you can farm 300 milion cows on grass?
They live in secluded areas where they are fed crops. These crops came from a normal cultivated land
Ideally our elected leaders would require the consumers to shoulder the environmental costs of animal agriculture, but that won't happen until and unless enough of us voters boycott animal products. If our leaders followed the model of discouraging smoking, an ad campaign would be the start, then the next step would be to eliminate the huge subsidies.
@lordalderan we do use the land for crops we eat. Any RESPONSIBLE land owner rotate their crops. Especially (in Canada anyway) the federal government is trying g to limit the use of commercially produced fertilizers. Livestock area critical role in putting nutrients back into the soil, as well as in the case with sheep and goats naturally controlling weeds. I don't understand the propaganda everyone is eating up. The only conceivable environmental cost to agriculture is the shipping. I hate to tell you this but shipping doesn't go away when we switch to vegetables. As for gasses produced by livestock. Although they may be composed of different gasses I'm pretty sure you pass gas too. I don't see anyone wanting to eliminate people because they pass gas.
Now make an episode about what would happen if rich people stopped using their private jets to go shopping.
There is research that shows that eschewing animal products for a year is about the same as not flying for that year.
I can imagine some people would think whatever that effect was that then eating meat isn't as bad or selfish. "Hey, richer people are doing damage! Let's all point our greasy fingers at them while enjoying our bucket of chicken wings"
@@NigraXXL It's about the hypocrisy. Literally the people who come to lecture people about stop eating meat clear away huge spots of forest to build their mega mansions, and fly private to climate summets and meters away decend from their cars to ride a bicycle for the show. This has been caught on camera. Look it up. (I am by no mean denying climate change or the effect in cattle on it).
Lol mad cuz poor
@@BlackJacked lol no, not if the alternative is flying your private jet every week... some order of magnitudes of difference there
I like how she glossed over massive starvation.
Because it would be just a temporary problem, the long term benefits are the thing that matters here. AND - this is not a possible scenario at all, the whole point of this video to demonstrate how bad the meat consumption is for the planet. A possible solution would be a gradual (and maybe not complete) shift away from the consumption of meat.
@@evyats9127 wait a wizard can't just make all the meat go away?! Thanks for setting me straight on that one. I like how you also brush it off as temporary. This scenario would literally kill millions of people. The impacts of red meat are usually overstated as the studies usually require participants to eat red meat daily for a month or more. While that sounds delicious, I doubt that there are many people eating that much red meat. Those same studies have also found that poultry doesn't have the same effect on heart disease
@@evyats9127 Nonsense, this is one sided fantasy story
@@evyats9127 Yeah but define "Temporary" Months, Years?
Also the logistical infustructure for incorporating plant based diets for dozens of different countries and cultures would be astounding.
The truth is plant-based diets are only really achievable rn in the US, Europe, and other areas with a sizable income/infestructure. It's such a Western Centrist pidea.
(and I'm PRO- plant based diet)
@@evyats9127you do that buddy. And give yourself a medal
Okay off topic kind of would the peanut (or nut) allergy rate go up or down? With more possible biodiversity and kids going outside or the demand that nuts replace proteins.
Allergies are caused by your immune system freaking out. Its not caused by eating too much peanuts.. actually allergies are more common in kids that live too clean and never got contact to the necessary microbes. Thats why its much more common in the modern world
The problem with plant foods is the high antinutrients they have.
@@Nja_kas”Although most plant foods contain antinutrients, when properly prepared, they are safe to consume. (7) In fact, some antinutrients have actually been shown to provide health benefits: phytates, for example, have been found to lower cholesterol, slow digestion, and prevent sharp rises in blood sugar. (8)(9) Moreover, most antinutrients can be removed or deactivated by soaking, sprouting, or boiling before consumption, and some traditional methods of preparation, such as fermenting, have been shown to increase nutritional value.” Keynutrition
@@carlostj4577but in this context, cholesterol would not be a problem, since there's no animal products anymore. slowing down metabolites and blood sugar spikes sounds like from fiber
but fermentation can increase the bioavailability, and could possibly remove the anti nutrients.
So glad that wizard doesn't exist.
Did I miss the part of the video where it says what happens to the people who rely on protein from meat because there's little to no plants, veggies, or fruit in their region?
They literally said that lol
@@BlueberryCheesecake8They also literally said that deforestation and pesticide use would decrease even though the meat industry doesn't use pesticide, and deforestation is caused even for farming crops like palm oil (which isn't animal feed).
Also, livestock does a thing called "grazing" which accesses water calories and "land" unused and inaccessible to humans...
As a vegan, I think someone named Carolyn Beans would predisposed to support a plant-based diet 😂
She was born for this 😄
Cannibalism
I should name my child steak then! 😂
She also forgot to mention that a meatless diet make people less intelligent over time.
This joke is good, which means you are not a vegan
India traditionally has a significant vegetarian population. We also still have the burden of CVS, diabetes and the other life style diseases. Our average life expectancy is less than other meat eating nations in part due to our poor diet.
Secondly more farming would introduce more pesticides too.
@@priyankapalit4900 firstly, correlation does not mean cause. We are not daibetic(and other diseases) because we don't consume meat. It is so because our majority diet is basically carbohydrates. There are no other nutrients in other diet.
Secondly, we everyone stops consuming meat than we wouldn't need to do more farming. In fact we would do less farming than we are already doing. Because 70% farming is done to feed the animals who we will consume later. So less farming.
A slightly different version I would be curious about is what would happen if people stopped eating/using livestock, but the animals were still there. While some livestock are capable of living in the wild, others would not be. If humans stopped having a need for them, would we gradually just let them go extinct? I imagine with humans being the way they are, there’s a good chance some would be kept in zoos. For scientific purposes, we don’t tend to like letting things disappear forever.
Farm animals have been selectively bred for maximum profit. They are genetic freaks that would have a hard time living in the wild. If they eventually die out, the wild animals they were bred from would continue, especially since ending animal ag would free up 75% of the land now needed for food production! Think American bison instead of cows, for example.
yes...
Most would likely re-adapt to their original habitats, in much much lower numbers (closer to what there was before)
Most domesticated livestock are no longer capable of surviving in the wild. Humans have selectively bred them for their purposes. It's also true of most agricultural crops too.
If those animals goes extinct without animal farming then let them be. That means they should not be there in the first place. we human, for our selfish desires, were forcefully keeping their population up so that we can consume them.
Second if you are concerned about animals species then it is better to let go some species than almost all life form in this earth due to climate catastrophe.
I think what really isnt an advantage of a worldwide vegetarian diet is the loss of food culture in many countries and the lack of vegetable production in some regions. Privileged rich people in developed countries could switch to vegetarianism anytime they want, but people who dont have the ability to get vegetables as easy as them wouldnt be able to and it would clearly make a negative impact to problems of food supply and hunger.
If you've ever been to "poor countries" you'd know what cost more between meat and vegetables.
Yes. Mainly those areas that have rugged, non-arable terrain will have food shortages. Livestock farming in these regions supply food and fertilizer to the soil via animal droppings. We would also require more petroleum-based fertilizers to supply all the plants if there is no more manure to put on crops.
I'm from india where, some regions are very poor. Poor people cannot buy non veg items as they are not cheap. Most of the poor population sticks to rice, pulses and egg.
@@anjalimishra1483 you can't say about the whole India. If I talk about restaurants take-outs then veg is costlier than non veg in tier 1 cities.
@@cunningfox1798 that's not true at all. In no place vegetables can be costlier then meat.. they might be feeding you crow there😂
The content is a little too biased, focusing on the meat problems, but not in the plant based system problematic. But the idea behind is really good and others scenarios could even bring more interesting reflections around the topic!
You mean the plant based system to feed farm animals? You mean the 500g plant protein to get 100g meat protein? The same 100g protein that could have get straight from plants? The plant based system to produce the unnecessary 400g protein?
Go do stand up comedy.
Plant based food systems are not problematic at all compared to animal based ones.
The way the video is presented is extremely unfair to a plant-based food system imo. They mention things like cultural/religious ties to meat, anglers losing their jobs, communities losing their way of life, and an initial spike in plant based food costs. These things are only because they chose to present it as an instant switch. All of the positives of plant-based are still true in a long term change. All of the negatives are only true in this contrived scenario that won't happen.
Also I don't even think the cost of plant based foods would rise...? We grow alfalfa, soy, and feed corn for animal feed. In this scenario those still exist. Humans aren't used to eating alfalfa or feed corn, but they're perfectly edible still.
What are you shilling for the beef industry?
You all are lacking some interpretation skills and letting me worry... I wouldn't reply, but I think it's better to...
I never said that the meat industry is perfect or made a comparison, I simply said that the plant system can also have problems, but the video chose not to talk about it, what it is also a problem.
@@May8DayWhat problems are there though? /genuine
I abstained from all meat for months and I felt really weak, even though I was eating super diverse and taking supplements. I learned that my body really needs meat. End of story.
You probably need some time to adapt that’s it. You don’t need it.
Strange I think that's because of your cravings. I haven't eaten meat for my entire life and still alive.
I am 20 years old.
@@vasusharma4519 "being alive" and being "alive and kicking" are two different things though...
@@UlasMT i am alive and kicking
@@UlasMT never in my life i felt any cravings let alone any need to consume meat.
You can easily thrive on a vegetarian diet. Veganism is completely different.
And even if we abstain from consuming animal based products our body get used to it. But yes it's difficult for a person who consumed meat all his life suddenly switching to vegetarian diet since body needs some time to adept to changes. So not your fault.
It’s a complicated topic. Not all foods are produced with equal cost of water, fuel, labor, time, and pesticides. Not all foods produced humanely. Human trafficking (kidnapped slaves to farm), child labor, destruction of environment (not just fishing or live stock, vegetables farms destroy environment too), animal abuse ( method of production can be very disturbing- check Foie gras). Nothing is perfect.
and to feed those animals we are doing more of that "not perfect" farming
We also need to consider that most food produced don’t get eaten! Reduce food waste first!
Why not both? Lol.
My question is: what do you do to supplement B12 to those who can’t afford artificial vitamins?
B12 is in plants .
Not to mention Omega 3, which is predominantly found from fish
@@survivorofthecurse717 omega 3 is in seeweeds. Thats how fish consum it
They will just suffer from B12 deficiency
@@sevinchravshanova4861 nope just eat a healthy diet and you wont.i pure vegetarian and guess what i dont. My b12 levels are completely normal. I make sure to eat pulses veggies(not green ones much) lentils fruits wheat and rice..
Do one like “what happens if billion dollar corporations disappeared”
Technology vanishes.😅
Say goodbye to your beloved internet, computers, cars, and everything you use everyday
you really want to go down that road?
@@JAL07 Most of these things can be done by the government. In fact, the internet was invented by governments, not by corporations
I remember there was argument for this . As the crop allocated for live stock is not compatible to switch to human consumption. As we want diverse spread of carbs ,vegetable and fruits. Not just Oats, Wheat , Corn or Barley which the land is optimize to grow those for live stock.
As well as some of land that Cows reside only can grow grass. Which we cant consume but they can. So they are taking things we cant consume to something that we can consume.
( I am aware that alot feedlot doesnt do this and they mostly fed with corn i feel strongly that Feedlot is the wrong way to raise Cattle)
Lastly one thing easy to overlook is Live stock does provide other by product aside from meat e.g Leather from Cows, Wool from Sheep, Feather for pillow from Chicken/Duck.
Its not just eating whats better, its eating whats right.
Like most green veggies get bacterial infections more often than root veggies & fruits
Most of those bacteria are going to be inside the green veggies, while root veggies are usually peeled and fruits are grown at the tops of trees, green veggies are eaten as is
And also they dont contain as much nutrients as much as root veggies & fruits
Root veggies are so dense in nutrients that you could chop it and regrow it as much as you like
(I did it once with an onion and it worked)
Fruits were already designed to be eaten way before human intervention
Theres a reason why fruits are sweet meanwhile you have to dip celery in ranch dressing just to eat it
it will be great if you make a video on recycling of cloths. most of us don't even know that how throwing away multiple clothes on land fills leads to increase of methane. so recycling started but still the issue was not much better as expected. it has its merits and demerits. we'd love to see all this related content together in an another informative video.
Don't we need vitamin B12 whose source is basically meat OR multivitamin pills?
There are many many non-meat sources for B12 vitamin, these include: Dairy, Eggs, which are vegetarian and have plenty enough B12 to get your recommended amount. Or Mushrooms, Spinach, Yeast Products (Like marmite), or fortified cereals (Many store bought cereals are already fortified) which are all vegan. Also B12 pills aren't exactly unhealthy, I don't know why there is such a stigma over taking a vitamin pill if needed.
Silvopasture systems were once common in Hungary and often had greater biodiversity and other combined benefits of forests and grasslands. Woody steppes were similar until cut down by the late middle ages. Ruminants raised on pasture (especially forested pasture) pose a real threat only to the larger carnivores in the region. Why this is not something to just shrug off, it is also not a deal-breaker in any way - except perhaps for scale.
This holds up even in regards to human-caused climate change as all livestock account for about 15% of anthropomorphic greenhouse gases. And don't get me started on tilling large crops for calories.
To sum it up: the problem (ecology-wise) really is not with eating animals, but with the way they are raised and the portion which they make up in our diet.
Also: the video quiet graciously skips to "oh, food prices will drop down again". What exactly could happen in the meantime?
This is a far more complex problem than just some dietary change.
Cruelty is the oldest joy of mankind ❤
Blame nature, blame God. Everyone's gotta eat, that's just the way it is
You cannot use any kind of land to grow vegetables, you need land that meets a specific acidity and has the necessary minerals. Almost only grass can be grown on a lot of the fields used to feed cattle and sadly we cannot eat grass, unlike cows
This is not true. Almost any land can be used to grow vegetables using regenerative practices. And many plants can grow in a range of pH levels. On the other hand many cattle operations have severely degraded the land they used for grazing. Also the majority of farmland is used to grow feed for animals in the first place since most are fed in feedlots, so the whole system is inefficient.
This video fails to address that animal can consume crops (grass) that grow in areas that cannot support any other crops. Looks at the areas that support cattle (Montana, Wyoming, Texas). The rainfall in those areas will not support a similar caloric content of crops like beans and vegetables. But hey, let just ignore that to push this personal preference.
what if we turned into pescetarian or reduce meat something like a weekly or monthly thing instead? how different would our life be?
Well, for me meat eating is a monthly thing so yeah, I'm already following ur advice🌝, it has always been like this for me🌝
Fish populations are also on decline. The ocean might by huge, but it is still finite, and especially the areas where fish can thrive are limited and already overexploited...
Just to rebut the pescatarian thing. Our waters are already overfished, which is causing so many problems, not just environmental but human conflict. This would be a short lived solution if people aren’t reducing meat intake but replacing one type of meat for another in the same volume/quantity/demand. Remember our population is now 8 billion. It’s doubled since 1975, half a human lifetime ago. The reason going plant-based is the most viable for feeding the population is because 80% of the world’s farmland feeds our livestock, which represent only 20% of our calories. As the kids would say “the math is not mathing”. We would have more food with less farmland if we decided to not eat meat or source it more sustainably like indigenous communities. The problem is industrial animal agriculture.
More demand for produce would somehow reduce pesticide use.
Believe it or not:
Demand would go down not up, want an explanation?
@@hopperchopperstudio3685 Uhh... yeah?
@@thelibyanplzcomeback basically livestock needs to eat a lot of plants, so if all the livestock disappeared, we wouldn’t need to grow as many plants
@@hopperchopperstudio3685 I mean it's mostly just grass.
@@thelibyanplzcomeback true, but still, a lot of corn and soy is used as animal feed, so a lot less pesticides would be needed
One question though … how would you fertilize the land ? Natural fertilizers come from cattle waste soooo that would mean we would need to synthesize it which is not a very good idea …
Yeah I like how we just brushed over the communities that will literally suffer and die if that happened and went straight to "oh but look things will be ok later". Pesticide use would increase not decrease. I'm not saying going vegetarian would be bad but an balanced omnivorous diet is always going to be better!
They would suffer and die... if a wizard waved a magic wand. In reality, the shift away from livestock will be gradual, staggered, and probably never 100% done.
@@direguineapig1755 will be? why "will"? who wants that to happen really? i dont. i want livestock to continue to be in the world, i want meat to continue being eaten. i dont want the change to occur in the first place, and im not alone.
You’re in the first world with a grocery store down the block dude, no one is here is preaching veganism to indigenous folks. No reason to be eating meat other than flavor for most people
@@arthaiser What we want, and what has to happen when reality hits us in the face, are two different things.
I have one another way to help the world, is to eat local food. Cut down most of the transportation of food products.
Yes, but not all local food provide the most nutrients and sometime ironically, local food could be more expensive than imported food. That's gonna be a huge problem in Japan as 87% of the Japanese market is imported goods/commodities.
@@ariahri12 That is a very nice point you got there. Probably would be something I’ll take account on my later comments.
The thing that I had considered about Japan was just “what if Japan doesn’t export fish to the world?” But I haven’t thought about “what if Japan doesn’t import food from elsewhere?” Yet.
Thank you to point it out and make the comment section a place it meant to be.
@@MattDoesNothing tru tru bruv keep it up too!
Yeah not really. Transportation accounts only to a small fraction of GHG emissions, especially from meat. And generally, "hamane" farming is worse for climate change than industrial farming, which is sad thb.
Animal farming comes to a grand total of 14.5% of greenhouse gasses. Construction has a much larger footprint. By some accounts construction is over 4 times as large as that of animal farming. This is like arguing over a dime and ignoring the quarters and half dollars in the cost of a dollar meal.
Greenhouse gasses by themselves are a small part of the problem. If we could just remove ALL emissions, but not change anything else, we would still be heading for self-destruction. We simply use up too much land, destroyed too much of the biosphere, and we use resources faster than they can regenerate, while disrupting the natural carbon and nitrogen cycles, diminishing or stopping the ability of the regenerative processes we depend on to continue.
Diminishing our footprint , which switching to all plant based would do, would buy us some time. But ultimately we not only have to diminish our footprint, but also gotta change farming practices and ditch fossil fuel fertilizers it seems, and be more integrated part of the cycles of the biosphere for our long term survival, based on what I've heard recently from biologists, ecologists and people that have worked in agriculture and the mining industry.
Sources plz
@@sor3999 Find the source six months later - lol start here with the US at 10% www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions and do some digging on cement and concrete, they are sneaky about hiding the impact of construction on the environment. Instead of totals they split it up into parts.
As far as I know, it is possible to have a complete balanced diet with eating plant based food and no meat, but not vice versa.
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The video forgets about mass starvation, amimoacid deficiencies, copper, selenium, zinc, vitamin A, B3, B6, B12, creatine, and Omega 3 defficiencies, and a gigantic worldwide spike on insuline resistance and type 2 diabetes, along with all diabetes risk factors as cancer, heart disease, and dementia.
i was vegetarian for 3 years and a little more. I did like it at first, but I went vegetarian at around 14 or 13. My family loved meats so they were confused. Some supported, but for the most part I was struggling. I would barely eat food and when I did eat a good meal I was very happy that I didn't eat meat. My problem was back then is that I didn't know to properly cook vegetarian foods, or even know how to be "vegetarian". I was just following the rules of it. I think if people learned more they would understand. Oh, and another big part that switched me back to an omnivore was that I didn't have too many options eating out. I got tired of the same meals and wanted something new. It would be better if vegetarians had more options eating out. At the end of the day I chose to go back, and I don't really regret it. I don't even eat too much either, maybe a bit of chicken during a tuesday and the meat on the weekend because I go out. Other than that I just eat yummy grains and veggies
It certainly got easier to be vegetarian than ever, lots of good substitutes, lab grown hopefully keeps progressing. I know plenty of omnivores, who have 1-2 day of vegan a week nowadays, because they like the taste and option.
Most important is to be aware of what we eat, nobody needs tons of meat to be healthy, it is being overconsumed.
I applaud your efforts, and I know how challenging it can be to avoid meat and dairy. But with the internet, there is an endless supply of information and videos on how anyone can prepare simple, quick, and affordable vegan dishes. There are even online courses that show how to plan meals, prep your food for weekly meals, and even grow your own food indoors. It may sound noble to say that you only eat a bit of chicken or meat each week, but keep in mind that it is impossible to take a bit of meat off of a chicken or cow without killing the entire animal.
@@Bruced82 I got tired of it
@@pathfinder1273 Yes, that’s all true, but like I said I got tired of having the same options. If you wanted to get something fancier then it’s expensive. Not many options when going out with family. Yes, animals die but that’s honestly just how life goes. I have a chickens and I’m aware everyday when I go out to take care of them that I literally eat chicken. It doesn’t bother me, and it’s ok to not want to be pescatarian, vegetarian or vegan. Some pescatarian, vegetarian, vegan meals are great and taste amazing. But I’d rather not be dissatisfied, I’d rather be happy. And if an animal dies but makes a meal more enjoyable for me then that’s great and they didn’t die for nothing.
@@uhhuh9773 Perhaps you should have specified that you were vegetarian for the sake of convenience. Its common to assume that people who post on a video like this have an issue to address, and not just share some trivia. For example, they are concerned about the suffering of animals, about which you couldnt care less; or they are concerned about the environment, with the same result for you; or they feel strongly about health issues, again a big zero for you. But you just wanted people to know that you did something and now you dont.
"Fewer Cheetahs would be shot for stalking too close to livestock" How would the cheetahs have survived until this point if there were no game?
How does habitat loss, pesticide use and other pressures from agriculture subside if you need that land that once belonged to cattle to grow more vegetables and fruits? You need pesticides to keep the pests away and I don't know how it prevents habitat loss when more food to grow requires deforestation? also, the fields are probably going to be mono
the land that was used to grow food for animals will be available to grow food directly for humans, which is way more efficient, so we would need less space. this also means there is no reason to need more pesticides. and also, before it wasn't mono?
@@kn7892Not really, just a few cows can feed hundreds of people yet you would need thousands of veg to feed just a few people. Therefore, yes you would need to build more fields to feed an equivalent amount that an animal farm used to feed. Let's not forget that the grain we use feed animals is a lot easier to grow requiring few pesticides compared to veg grown for human consumption.
You don't need as much land, that's the point.
@@m.ahussain4005 Yeah pal that is not true at all, and there is a much greater yield when it comes to crops per acre vs. rearing animal flesh.
@@m.ahussain4005 You don't count a cow vs number of plants. That doesn't tell you anything useful. You check how much resources, energy and land you need to produce equivalent level of calories and nutrients from plants vs animal tissue. And plants come waaaaay on top.
What would TED do if everyone stops watching it. 😊
Fr, almost nothing but propaganda now, very little science if any
Huh? What nonsense are u talking about? Lol
Vegan diet does not give as much calories per volume, so for every land area of dairy use greater land area for plant based production is used up for equivalent production.
simply false, if that were true, literally the laws of thermodynamics would be disproven.
"So over thousands of years..." Bold of you to assume humanity won't go extinct by then.
Bold of them to assume a thousand of years is as small as their video
If we keep eating meat we'll go extinct under 600-700 years
What about the demand for, production, and use of pesticides and insecticides? How will it affect other animal populations? I might eat more chicken and less beef though.
The video states that pesticide use subsides (2:49)
@@Simonheide I don’t know if I agree. Wouldn’t increased crops demand require more pesticides use?
@@gminors Agree, if crop demand increases.
The video states that crop produced for livestock exceeds our demand if turning entirely vegan, hence the overall production decreases.
2:08 It isn't though. Not all land can be farmed. And certain crops only grow In specific places in the world.
Slippery slope fallacy 2:46
I've been vegetarian for 5 or 6 years, and I feel great. I'll never forget, about 3-4 days in I felt different. Just lighter overall. And my digestive system is so much more efficient!
P.S. I still eat light meat sometimes when traveling, and occasional fish. Not all cities are as vegetarian-friendly as LA lol.
Then you are a mostly vegetarian.
2:43 I doubt that the pesticide use will decline as long as big companies have a say in things. The pesticides used in farming plants are just as hazardous as pesticides used in farming animals. Pesticide drift is a huge problem with companies trying to hurt organic farmers.
If we are growing more crops,
then we could be using more pesticides,
so things might not be as perfect as you say.
Right because meat doesnt require any crop land.. cows just appear. The whole point is that we can stop growing all this corn and soj for animal feed and instead use it directly for humans. Most of our farmland rn is used to feed animals to be killed. Its vastly innefficient
More crops are grown to feed livestock, in fact if people stopped eating meat then less crops will be grown. What do you think livestock eat? Air?
@@therealgrimreaper68 Have you ever heard about this concept called "grazing" in which livestock feeds on uncultivated land and gains access to calories and water humans cannot directly access to!?
@@adrianblake8876 have you heard of factory farming? I don’t think so. They don’t graze. Most livestock in the world are factory farmed, 99% are factory farmed in developed countries. They have food specifically grown for them.
@@therealgrimreaper68 You've done factory farming, or are you fed propaganda like everybody else!?
Wouldn't pesticide usage actually go *up* instead of down because of farmers wanting to protect their newly grown crops from pests and insects that would otherwise destroy them? Plus what if you have dietary/health needs that would make a vegan/vegetarian diet unhealthy for you? How is someone with anemia supposed to get their iron? It's mentioned briefly in the video, but it's kinda of glosses over that a LOT of cultures/areas where meat consumption is an important part of daily life would suddenly be left out in the cold if this scenario would to happen. What's an island nation supposed to do when they suddenly don't have any fish or crabs to eat? What about groups of people living in the mountains where the soil there isn't conducive to crop growing? Are they just meant to go hungry?
I know this is all just a hypothetical situation, and the video even mentions the things I already talked about, but the way it presents this situation kinda makes it sound like a vegan/vegetarian diet is the *only* way to go forward in terms of majorly reducing greenhouse gases without fully taking into consideration what that would mean on a larger scale or what the ramifications would be for certain groups of people.
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Most plants 🌱 r full with poisons ☠️ to protect them from predators like humans🤏Such poisons kill humans slowly 🤏
Huge increase in the need for fertilisers and sprays to grow all the plant based food but hang on, the veggies all want ORGANIC food. That only works with mixed farming with livestock providing the soil fertility. You could, instead have rotations which leave the land fallow for two seasons but I thought she said much less land would be required for agriculture? It is widely accepted that a purely vegetarian agriculture would require 3 to 5 times as much land to be used for arable crops because much of the land used for livestock is not suitable for anything other than growing grass.
I have an issue with presenting meat as an unhealthy part of diet. The truly unhealthy "meat" products are the processed ones that contain added preservatives and curing salts, and it is unclear how many studies about meat consumers actually involve people who consume only unprocessed meat.
Either way, while studies do show that vegetarians and vegans tend to have lower rates of certain diseases (and even then it's a question whether the studies could link that to diet alone or whether other lifestyle differences in these groups are involved), they don't seem to live longer on average compared to moderate meat consumers. The average life expectancy in countries where meat is consumed the least is pretty dire, actually, while many of the countries high up the list of average meat consumption have the highest life expectancies. Unsurprisingly the first group are poor countries and the second are mostly rich, so at the very least a supposedly-healthier diet means little without access to decent healthcare.
Putting that aside, it's obvious reducing the number of livestock and freeing up farming land would be good for the environment, but I think the solution will come in the form of cultured meat. It's still meat but from directly grown tissue, without an entire "wasteful" animal to keep alive.
Having been a vegetarian for most of my life, I'm now 70. it does require a higher degree of attention in order to ensure that you're getting the right amount of protein and vitamins required to stay healthy, for me that's always been a benefit. Education on the subject of food and health seems to be quite sparsely spread across the population of the world so, the chances are that a vegetarian world would be quite a poorly one.
Non vegetarians would be triggered 😂💀
I can go with without beef, but no milk? DAMN YOU VEGGIE WIZARD!
When you realise COVID19 would have never happened if world had stopped meat eating.
There are folks, myself included, who have digestive issues not caused by eating vegetables, but is definitely made worse by digesting veggies and plant based things. I can't speak for everyone else, but my digestive health issues are managed by eating primarily meat.
There are always some special cases, but for the majority of people it's just not necessary, that's the point I guess
Have you looked into said digestive problems in detail instead of just doing an elimination diet? Sometimes the issues exist because one doesn't eat vegetables, and the super rare time they eat it, they get aggravated. But if it was a regular thing, and eventually most of /or fully their diet, the problem disappears.
Mitkoogrozev I'm not sure your education or background, but I assure you the situation has been I investigated by practitioners, professionals, and specialists. Even if it wasn't, if a change in diet resolves the issue respectfully an elimination diet would be a choice I get to make. It's a choice on both sides. A choice to eat meat and eliminate veg, as well as it is also a choice folks can make to eliminate meat and eat exclusively veg. Additionally, I'm not sure how everyone expects the land to stay productive after eliminating livestock from the equation. Plants need nutrients like nitrogen to grow. Those nutrients through current farming practices are being returned to the earth through the spreading of manure, crop rotation, as well as supplementing with synthetic fertilizers. Yeah we can produce more fertilizers synthetically, we can even switch to human waste for fertilizing if we REALLY wanted to. Synthetic fertilizers have more of an ecological cost than manure does, and I'm not really comfortable fertilizing with human waste. P.S. I'm a farmer. I farm a couple hundred acres so I kinda have an idea what I'm talking about.
I have IBS and follow FODMAP, I'm also vegetarian (vegan would be too much), the vast amount of people should be fine. Many are eating way too much (red) meat.
Soulless Husk I have no opinion either way in regards to your dietary choices. Vegetarian works for you, and that is great. If you weren't vegetarian, that would be great too. In regards to the folks you think eat too much red meat. Like yourself, they also get to choose what they think is best for them. Your choice isn't 'better' or 'worse' than anyone else's. Eating exclusively plant based has environmental costs, just as eating meat has costs. As a side note, if anyone has studied history the consumption of meat and domesticatication of livestock was credited with the advancement of civilization. I'm not saying that the consumption of meat and livestock domestication is still advancing civilization, but it was an important part of our history.
For all the statistics about greenhouse gas emissions in this video, they don't provide one in the context of other sources of greenhouse gas emissions. While there are many environmental benefits, the greenhouse gas emissions from not eating meat would be barely noticeable.
Надзвичайно цікаво! Дякуємо, чекаємо нові лекції!
When so much magic is required to solve a problem, it's not a solution
Actually, there is no magic needed. It is as simple as just stop eating meat and other animal products. The majority of people can do that, they just don't want to. People struggle to understand how necessary (and good) it is. And being part of the problem is definetly not a way to solve it.
Here's an even better version that doesn't misrepresent the problem. What would happen if we replaced all industrial agriculture with a sensible diversity of sustainable alternatives?
That means ending feedlots, slaughterhouses, etc as well as ending the monoculture crops of corn, soybean, etc. Those highly destructive monocrops don't just feed livestock but also are essential for many ultra-processed foods including tofu and 'textured vegetable protein' and many meat substitutes like Beyond Meat.
There are enormous areas destroyed by these monocultures, with no animal life, no soil life, overuse of chemicals, synthetic fertilisers (from fossil fuels), etc... but they could be restored to functional, healthy, productive, biodiverse ecosystems through proven regenerative farming practices.
At the same time on a smaller scale, many people could be growing much of their own food. Surplus can be shared with neighbours & friends. All this helps build local resilience, restore community, provide real food that's actually nutritious, etc. We could help to facilitate all of this, to make it more accessible for more people, for example through education and seed sharing programs. Very, very cost effective for governments!
Families might have a house cow or a couple of goats for dairy, if they want. Some families might choose to keep a few chickens for eggs. Again, surplus produce can be shared with friends & neighbours. These animals can be eaten at the end of their life, or their nutrients can be returned directly to the garden. And throughout their life, they've provided fertiliser... this is an essential part of the process of growing food, and a lot of it needs to come from animals (or from fossil fuels).
All of the above results in fewer 'food miles', lower emissions, less energy required (from either fossil fuels or renewables), less reliance on fragile global supply chains that are themselves reliant on geopolitical stability and climate stability (among other unreliable requirements)
Yet another benefit of this approach is that the population is not beholden to a few billionaires owning the entire global production & distribution of food (or food-like products).
Because you cant feed billions this way. Your idea is based on a romantic idea without any knowledge of the reality of this system (we had it in the past). Any droughts or pests and your entire local production is gone. You dont see the world wide food shipping that is used in modern days to cover our supply. In the system you describe people just used to starve.
Your idea, given the current population, is impractical. You're aware that many families around the world, consisting of four members, are squeezed into tiny flats smaller than 30 square meters, with both parents working over 50 hours a week, right?
@keeyip319 Yes of course I'm aware of a very wide variety of living conditions around the world. I'm not saying it won't be a very difficult transition. But the alternative is far, far worse. You may have noticed that there are more and more families squeezing into smaller and smaller flats with less and less ability to escape their circumstances. These problems-and many others-are only getting worse... because that's inherent to the current system.
Let me say it another say. What is the current system doing to improve the lives of those people? It's clearly failing them. My proposal is much more likely to improve their lives.
I'm just proposing that we primarily focus on wellbeing, rather than focusing primarily on wealth and then seeing if we have any money leftover for people's wellbeing.
@@keeyip319 This idea is *more* practical, it's the *transition* that seems impossible.
we would all die of malnutrition
The population which puts highest pressure on planet's resources,
looks most concerned about planet.
I am talking about America and Western Countries
"The population which puts highest pressure on planet's resources"
I don't know, it sounds more like China to me...
It's not just the meat, it's the processed ones are suspicious.
This would true if we consume 100% of the world's food comes from meat but only 14% comes from meat remaining food come from wheat, rice, vegetables etc
This is just untrue...
source?
While worthwhile to pursue, the narrator leaves out that 1) not all grazing land is good for crops 2) some of the grazing land that can be used for crops needs lots of fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides, which harm the environment.
I don’t think people understand that if you cut out meat, you have to further boost the production of crops which in itself contributes to a high number of CO2 produced
As someone who was raised not to waste food (if possible), seeing how much food on shelves goes to waste makes me sad. I know many places take it to feed the homeless, but for animals especially, much of the butchered parts get thrown out for their muscle.
I feel like many meat-eaters do not consider eating parts like organs, feet, tail, or head which are the main pieces that get thrown out. At best, they get sold to local Asian markets if there are any.
I have heard that home-butchers try to utilize all the pieces of an animal though and my parents would sometimes get sausages and livers from them.
News flash; Produce is also wasted. Grocery stores throw away produce almost on a daily basis. It also rots really fast, it arguably rots faster than meat because it's never frozen.
Indians being vegetarians for centuries: huh you don't say
Really?? You're speaking for majority of Indians?
The EPA puts the US emissions of Agriculture to 10% of the total emissions. (for 2022)
So even if you completely discontinued all food-based emissions that come from beef and dairy production, you would just save 6% ( 60% of 10% ) of the total emissions right?
1. Livestock are raised predominantly on marginal land, like on steep hills where it is not possible to grow crops. Two-thirds of pastures are non-arable land (unsuitable for crops).
2. Grass for hay is typically grown on land that may not be suitable for other crops, such as row crops like corn or wheat. Hay is often produced on land that might have lower fertility, drainage issues, or other factors that make it less ideal for traditional food crops.
3. Feed also consists of crop byproducts like corn husks, citrus pulp, distiller's grains, ect...
4. Many people have dietry requirements that require or are made easier by meat products. Example: Heme-iron for iron deficient anaemia
So while many of us could stand to eat less meat, cutting it out entirely has diminishing and then harmful results. Using governments to harass meat farmers or any farmers for that matter tends to work out unfavourably for people who eat food, particularly the poor.
Chuck some lentils and other legumes in your meals and less meat. Have a vegetarian day once, twice or more often a week. It's your choice but don't force dietry ideals onto others using government.
points 1-3 completely ignore the fact that a vast amount of farmland is used to grow crops for animals. they are fed grain and soy e.g.
point 4 is ofc true and would be a problem for a minority of people with special conditions if meat would really happen to magically disappear over night
the last 9 words are the important ones
@@kn7892 exept these farmlands are less pouluted than vegans ones
@kn7892 Points 1-3 specifically address that. Hay is often grown on land unsuitable for human crops, marginal land can't have crops but can have livestock, and a lot of feed can be food production by products.
Reducing meat consumption would allow more land to be used for human crops or reclaimed by the wild, but to completely cut it out would waste the opportunity to use marginal land, hay suitable land, and waste-feed to provide more food and nutrients to people who need/want it.
@@magic_honey all lies and wisfull thinking
are ted point is like claiming comunism is great idea
that the land currently use for cattle to graze on isnt all arable soil that we could grow crops on. theres a reason its not used to grow crops, and instead used for pasture.
they claim greenhouses gases due to livestock would go down, but the things those livestock would otherwise be eating, corn husks, stalks, shells, things humans cant eat that are waste product from crops, all of that would now actually become waste with no livestock to eat it, and so it would rot in fields and produce pretty much the same amount of gasses as from it being digested by cattle. If it doesn't rot and add nutrients back to the soil the other alternative is to burn it to get the same effect, but thats even worse for "carbon emissions". So rather than us feeding it to cattle, thus producing more useful food from waste, instead it rots and we get no extra food in the short term. it just means we might not have to fertilise the land as much.
same with how they try to make claims about how much water livestock "wastes". claiming it olympic swimming pools worth of water. as if you cut open a cow and you get dozens of olympic pools worth of water spewing out of them. cows eat mostly grass, that grows from rain water, and then within a day they pee it out and it gets filtered through the ground into the water table just like the rain does. so cattle that grazes doesnt waste any water at all. unless you want to get your water out of grass?
theres many massive over simplifications in video like these, that are just pushing an agenda
I think its a bit too positive like when you gonna tell me the downsides or are you telling me there are no downsides which is very suspicious
They did? They said that cultures that rely on meat would suffer. That’s the only downside XD
Most land currently used for live stock can not be used to grow edible food for humans, which means a loottttttt more land is needed to sustain humans on just veggies, which means a lottttt more water. There are a lot of down sides but people like to ignore it.
@@nadeemTYU you do realize that food has to be grown to feed animals…. Right? Think of factory farmed chickens- they have to be fed grains! Grains we could eat instead XD
@@hollystop or you know chickens could eat things like worms, insects, berries, grasses, or even small rodents
@@chickenleg440 thats not what chickens are fed though.... we raise BILLIONS of them every year.
That's a nice way to say most farm animals will be near extinction levels unless we keep them alive.
Farm animals were created by us with selective breeding, they did not exist in the wild in that form, they are quite apart from their original ancestors, so this point is moot. Not even taking into account there are way too many, and they often suffer greatly, they'd rather not exist at all.
It makes me think about how eating less meat can help our planet. It might be a bit tough at first, but in the end, it could be really good for us and the Earth. It's a complex issue, and finding a balance that works for our health and the planet is crucial.
Those who eat no meat are the healthiest, based on the Adventist Health Studies. They also live about 8 years longer than meat eaters in the same religion.
I don't eat meat because I don't want to, but because I can't afford it😂 hope it can help our planet
@@Anderwader If you switch to a fully plant based diet, it would be the most effective single change you could make to reduce your environmental footprint!
@@someguy2135 because I'm still a teen, i still needs fishes once a week to grow up, but I will try my best!😊
If you don't go fully plant based, boycotting just beef (and preferably also dairy) would have a huge effect! Raising cows has, by far, the biggest negative impact on our environment in animal ag.
Everything is needed but with balance not excessively or the opposite
What do you mean by everything?
@@kn7892every type of food in general
@@kn7892 proper food which will vary person to person...like vegetarian or non-vegetarian
02:48 I don't understand. Habitat loss is due to clearing of forest to make way for farmlands, and farms use pesticides too.
This is a very brief conclusion of how life would be and how earth would be without meat.
In order for us to sustain, we will still use pesticide, herbicide and lots of other chemicals to grow crops which still pollute water atmosphere and everything around us. It could have brought even more harm. Also our atmosphere don’t just drop the greenhouse gas overnight. A lot of the greenhouse gas lingers in the atmosphere for a long time( hundreds thousands of years..) as for the health part, I do agree but we just need to be very careful with the food we choose, otherwise veganism might lead to deficiencies in certain nutrients
(I am not attacking people who go for vegan…❤)
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Most plants 🌱 r full with poisons ☠️ to protect them from predators like humans🤏Such poisons kill humans slowly 🤏
No, you're wrong
I was not ready for this 😢
Im a vegetarian and im all for this motion but you didnt take the b12 or iron deficency into account. The production of vitamins would increase as well, wouldnt it?
Add vitamin C (lemon juice for example) to your iron-rich plant-based foods (legumes, lentils), and your iron deficiency will most likely go away. Unless you suffer from heavy periods, in which case the alternative is to supplement, just like soo many meat-eating women have to supplement.
B12 is already massively produced to suplement the livestock that doesn't graze and therefore can't obtain B12 naturally (more than 90% of it). And a lot of that vitamin goes to waste because it doesn't bioaccumulate in the way that heavy metals do, for example. So in fact, B12 production would be cut because now it would only be needed to suplement humans and not dozens of billions of industrial farm animals. And something similar happens with almost everything else.
Well!
All points are clearly explained What about if high Agricultural production means higher usage of pesticides which may also causes loss of biodiversity ?!!??
🛑FACT🛑
Most plants 🌱 r full with poisons ☠️ to protect them from predators like humans🤏Such poisons kill humans slowly 🤏
The agricultural production will in fact go down since most land is used to grow crops to feed livestock than humans directly. So pesticide use will go down significantly.
I would like to see this video peer reviewed...it is correct in lots of ways, however it is very slanted and unscientific in a few ways.
What do you think is unscientific about it?
I think the idea of consuming less meat is great, but if hunting wild game just stopped it would be devastating to agricultural crops. Deer and other herbivores would get overpopulated and literally eat the forest around us. It happened in Yellowstone when there wasnt enough predators to keep the population under control. Lookup the damage wild pigs can do. 1 deer can destroy a garden. So less meat is good just not 0 meat.
Hunting can make things worse, by culling too many males, or driving them further to more land coverage, when they flee (happening with wild pigs).
Next up: what would happen if everyone stopped eating Vegetables tomorrow?
that sounds like a better discussion
What happens when you don't grow up and eat your broccoli
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
Great idea and amazing hypothetical scenario . But to which planet are we going to transfer all the livestock animals and how ?
Oh boy I’m sure this comment section is gonna stay civil😅
🛑FACT🛑
Most plants 🌱 r full with poisons ☠️ to protect them from predators like humans🤏Such poisons kill humans slowly 🤏
Global meat industry is worth more than trillion dollars, dairy a little bit less than that, big players have a monopoly basicaly, they can spare some change for bad actors...
We will all develope bubble gut to have huge intestines to process plants😂
I just don't buy the part about us being able to get all we need from plants. I've witnessed the ailing health and obvious physical lacking in so many vegans and I've listened to other nutritionalists who really say the opposite. I was a vegetarian but I got sick and started eating meat again. Do people (esp. in the USA) eat too much meat? Most definitely. People eat too much in general. I would like to see a video about reducing by half - or even just cutting out fast food retailers portion.
Imagine a world without cheese
Imagine if half the population of North America started eating half as much meat as they do now. That alone would effect some big changes...
Meatless Mondays!
I would really like to see a TED-ED video on the topic:
What if all the countries united into one nation?
But have you ever had a beautifully cooked and wonderfully spiced rib eye steak?
I am from Japan.I feel like very few Japanese people avoid eating meat and fish.
I think Japanese people including me have to raise awareness of vegetarianism for the environment.
the only thing that helps the enviroment is not wasting food and using less fossile fuels
I believe the Japanese should also reduce their packaging. While everything they sell looks pretty and nice, it pains me to see each item individually wrapped with multiple layers, often 2-5 layers deep.
The one thing that most of these videos get wrong, that for ra split second I thought this one was going to get right: Much of the land used for raising livestock can not be used for growing crops. Anyone who has spent anytime in Utah, Nevada, and even some parts of Texas, know this.
90% and maybe move livestock is not fed on grass land.
Been vegan for 19 years. Second best thing I've ever done next to marrying my wife.
so cool🙈🔥i wish i could go vegan but i have no idea how to survive and be healthy w/o cottage cheese, seafood and eggs even tho i rarely eat them..
@@yellowcatmonkey You can ease into it. I was vegetarian for 2 years before I became vegan. The first few months were rough, I won't lie. Nowadays I don't miss any foods, because there are so many vegan choices, including junk food.
That's so awesome that you've been vegan that long! I can't wait for the day when I can say that same number for myself.
@@miriamlogan3733 you'll get there, remember to savor the journey 😊
wasnt there some nutrients that are not possible to get from plants?
You can get all required nutrients from plants, but it’s not as easy as eating salad and fries.
There are actually
basically protein, thats why vegans need to supplement...proteins from plants is not the same as meat proteins
@@steviewonder2492 im pretty sure there were some thats not found in plants that we need.
I googled some article about it. B12, D3, DHA, some complete proteins and BCAA
@@donnie9001 ye plants have incomplete proteins while meat has complete proteins or something like that. which means vegan without supplements would not get all amino acids that is required or something like that
idk I feel like this is one of those extreme situations where we can't really know exactly how it would play out