Mike, if you can, please. Do the extended version of this. It could be a series, a UA-cam Members thing, PayPal or Patreon paid, whatever. I'd gladly pay for it and we need it. Your videos are SUCH a sanity relief, a refined source of good science, a very helpful analytical perspective on what bad science in those topics is and WHY it's so. And much more. *I* alone could do a video just to state how good and time saving your production is! It is VERY important. You already have, single handedly, outdone the entire team of the Hot Mess channel, from "It's Okay to be Smart" people (if I'm not misremembering the source channel). And they DID do a hot mess of a job not being able to see their carnistic ideology downplaying straight up scientific facts, which, on the contrary path, is your specialty to bring forth. Please consider it kindly. I know it's a lot of work, maybe you can hire people to help in the production. Make a Kickstarter/crowd funding, I KNOW I'm not alone in this. We'll finance it along with the leadership of your effort and expertise. Please let it sink in. I send you much love in the most thankful manner. You helped me SO much in activism (and to BECOME active). And I'm a biologist... You helped me unlearn so many vices and reproduction of carnist, industry supported lies that were in the school books I learned with, heard from my college professors and teached back at my students when I was still a teacher in Brazil. thank YOU.
Brilliant comment mate! I wholeheartedly agree on so many levels. I was so disappointed by a hot mess because they have so much potential, but completely skirt around veganism entirely.
The environment is what convinced me to become a reducetarian. Ethics sent me over the edge to become vegan. Veganism is the way to go for humans, animals, and the earth.
azorel azorel Nothing in that article even comes close to suggesting that a vegan diet isn’t more beneficial for the environment. For starters, the vegan-friendly foods discussed in the article aren’t exclusive to vegans. Non-vegans consume them too. Secondly, the objection levied by the article isn’t about veganism versus non-veganism. Rather, it’s about importing versus growing locally. It has nothing to do with veganism. Let’s assume that we all grow our food locally. Which lifestyle is likely to be better for the environment in terms of water consumption, land use, pollution, carbon emissions, etc.?
@azorel azorel the article concludes if you source locally, it doesnt put strain on other countries for their food. But if the billions of animals in our agricultural system weren't eating so much, then we would have enough food for all of those starving in impoverished nations. Meat is a privilege in most countries. It holds on to US tax subsidies like a crutch. If it were running standard market price, less people would be eating it and our poorer population in food deserts would not be surviving off of McDonald's. I get there are some regions that absolutely rely on their livestock to survive, but the average middle to upper class American, which I'm going to assume you are since you have access to both a device and internet to watch this on, do NOT need to be eating so much meat. And there are much more sustainable vegan food options than bougie avocado toasts, look into staple foods from Ital diets and Indian diets.
@azorel azorel then why are you here to make your irrational little comment? To make yourself feel better for needlessly paying to have animals slaughtered all whilst destroying your own bodily health and the environment? You remind me of my classmates that never show up to lecture and wonder why they bomb the exams
It's not minor when you stop and think about it. These innocent victims are born and raised in hellish conditions for their entire lives before the knife goes across their throat and they die. You already know what it's like for animals to be born, live, and die from your own family and perhaps pets. Plants are obviously different since it's just water, dirt, soil, seed (and fertilizer) without any of the complications of having a nervous system, digestive system, etc.
@@ParadymShiftVegan I'm pretty sure the poster meant it's a minor part of a human's life. It is pretty much the whole life for the poor animals, as you say. Misery from birth to death. It's heart breaking.
@@GS-lq2is Definitely. I could agree more. Perhaps I could have better clarified. What I mean to say is it's a major part of our human lives as well, but we are simply disassociated and disconnected psychologically from the reality of what we are actually doing every time we pay for that.
@@ParadymShiftVegan Oh, I see. Very true - it's incredible how disconnected we are from this atrocity. I know I was, even while I considered myself to be an animal lover. Now that my blinders are off, I (like many vegans) wish I had done it much, much sooner.
@@elzee4253 Fishing boats lose nets and fishing line (miles long) quite easily, it breaks, falls in the sea. Lobster and crab pots lose their line to their buoy and become ghost pots sat at the bottom of the sea, tubs and buoys fall out of the boats and it's all made of plastic. There are many studies and much research in the area and my partner and I have personally cleaned hundreds of beaches around the UK and done in-water cleaning whilst doing scuba/freediving of ghost nets and pots and almost 90% of the rubbish we collect is fishing related.
Always 'frosts my apples' that my tax $ go to animal agriculture subsidies. (I grew up in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada...this was a common curse).
Very true! It always shocks me to see how cheap meat and dairy products are compared to veggies and fruit. All veggies need is water! How about animals? They need so much more water, plants to eat (which again need water), medication, people tending to them, machines to process them and so on. It's INSANE!!! Let me know if you have any numbers, but I bet 100g of beef would cost around $30 without subsidies...
100% agree. Let meat prices go back to the ancient time. Availability does not mean everyone can afford it. Let them rich people eat them if they want.
one more huge source of vegan fertilizer: compost. Huge emissions savings and prevention of particularly harmful greenhouse gas types if we stop throwing our food in landfills
So true. My trash bin only got my kids’ junk food wrappers in it. If they’re gonna eat animal flesh, they’ll eat it outside of the house. In this house even egg shells from my daughter’s hen got composted. All the kitchen waste that is veggies peels go into my stock pot then into my compost bin. All fruit peels go straight into compost bins. In 2 months they’ll feed my mom’s fruit trees (we got jack fruit, mango, dragon fruit & banana trees), my green beans, loofah, zucchini, tomato vines, ginger, galangal & turmeric plants and the liquid that come out of it every week feed all the other veggies that i grow hydroponically. No organic waste leave my house.
One of the biggest benefits of the world going vegan, would be the associated higher awareness and more compassionate lifestyle that comes along with it (for most people). This would translate to so many other improvements in how we treat people and approach major, shared problems.
Yes, true. Since I went vegan, I question more about the things surrounding us. I got to study more and I get along people better. Because humancentric problems are so tiny compared to animals suffering. I never been this calm and comprehensive.
If this went viral it would only hurt his cause. I’m a meat eater and this did not convince me at all and only seemed like a far fetched not well thought out idea at all. I would like to see a more well thought out version of this, but that would be an insane amount of research, time, money. Like we are talking geopolitics, which are nuisanced to put it in the simplest of terms. What happens in China affects hunter gatherers in Kenya. There is a delicate geopolitical balance. It’s not as easy as “lEtS jUsT gEt rId of fArmS teehee”
CC CC I've spoken to many carnists and guided them to sound research and authoritative sources on veganism and still they find flaws in it even when there are none, or at the very least, when it still is a better alternative than continuing with the present state of affairs. Why? The truth is that most carnists have a very strong attachment to the sensuous pleasure of eating meat: tasting its flavor, and feeling the texture and juiciness of meat. I bet your salivary glands are already working just by reading this, aren't they? That's why it is paramount to continue supporting companies that create plant based meat (fake meat) that can compete against real meat in all the aforementioned aspects. One big problem is government and the collusion there exists with the animal farm industry: the government subsidizes the cost of meat to such a degree that not only does it make for affordable meat production but it also masks the real cost it has on the environment by helping produce it.
My fiance is installing a floor on a dairy. I overheard him talk to his dad on the phone about how cow's milk is weird. And he mentioned to me, by that logic he should stop eating meat all together... the gears are turning!!
YES IT IS, I mean even Kurzgesagt (though not explicitly anti or pro-vegan) is recognizing that animal industries are really, really bad for the environment. Their latest video on climate change seems to reflect the changing views of people with meat and dairy, and I don't think people back then for the last 10, 20 years would have done that.
Have your finance watch the 5 minute video:Dairy is scary with Erin Janus(I can bearly get thru it). Dairy Cows are enslaved, their motherhood exploited and lives ended in execution. Much love and respect xoxoxox!
Just hope you read some literature(Maybe Neal Bernalrd or Campbell etc) before your fiance starts this sort of diet. I live in Norway and 8 months of the year we have no sun and I lived like this for years. I am vegan 6 years. But I red so much I know how to compensate for the lack of sun. Still blood check show too little D3 vitamin. But this WAS MY ONLY problem! I need vegan ablet D3. This should be yours only problem, hope not even that, go sit in the sun too . Good luck! :)
It's a great dream, and it encourages me to talk to everyone I know about why I'm vegan and hope we can turn this world around. Maybe we won't get there but I don't want to be in my 90's and wish I had done more to bring about the changes needed to heal the planet.
I’M CONVINCED!!!! I’ve been vegan for about 2 1/2 years and will never go back! I love your channel so much. You’re right on with fantastic facts and very listenable. Congratulations on hitting 2 million views for your last video. You deserve to be heard!
There would also be no suicides, domestic violence, drug addicts, and no emissions from vehicles because most to all those things are in animal agriculture. Produce is all grown locally by small time family farmers and it's grown organically. Walmart is the biggest purchaser of such produce each Walmart for their get supplied by different local family produce farmers they only have between two to three acres of land and use a few teaspoons of water a year
@Linus Gallagher, Thank you for correcting me. Now then, it's not often I'll say this, but why don't you stick your face in a meat grinder and go and live in the woods? It's just a suggestion.
The worlds never gonna be fully vegan so stop beating a dead horse. Also, here’s how the world would look fully vegan. There’d be no soil left due to top soil run off from mono-cropping, so we wouldn’t be able to grow anything and we’d starve. There’d be world wide health problems due to vitamin and mineral deficiencies from uninformed people (only a small portion of the population is vegan now and look how many of them do it wrong). And finally processed food companies would have a monopoly on the food market. I’m all for being plant based but we’re omnivores, we have the ability to extract different sources of nutrition from both animal and plant foods. So do yourselves a favour people, eat more plants but eat some animals too. Also, I had to put this comment here because Mic is so fragile that he can't handle any push back on his ideas, so he blocked me for this.........
@@ynghuch Your attempts at researching a projected future is interesting but not correct. The ONLY vitamin deficiency, which is still not entirely proven by science, is B12 and, as it is, we fortify cows milk with D so, yeah, problem solved. Fortification is an old practice. The amount of land needed to grow the entire world's food is far smaller than what we use now for cattle. There's lots of land to rotate crops on. "Starvation" would never be an issue. Whether we are herbivores, or omnivores, NOBODY needs to be tortured and slaughtered en mass for ME to live. If people choose to raise and slaughter their own animals, fine. But, the animal farms have to go. Perhaps if people are forced to kill animals themselves instead of conveniently purchasing body parts at the local store, maybe then we will see how much they really love their meat. Mike does his research and reports it like any good scientist and he would NEVER "beat a dead horse", or a live one. If you disagree so much, why do you watch and comment on pro-vegan videos????? There are plenty of other channels that support your viewpoint.
@Linus Gallagher Well, I don't eat any animal products or buy anything made from animals. If the definition of vegan is somehow different let me know. Btw. We are all on the same side, so no need to be mean ;)
@Linus Gallagher People like you are the reason why so many meat eating folks hate vegans and it's completely contra productive. Do you want people to stop killing animals or not? If your answer is NO, continue hating and shaming other vegans/plant-based folks, but if you really want to make a change and help current meat eating people transition, try to show compassion for people as well, not just for animals.
@Linus Gallagher Wow, now you have really hurt my feelings... I might have to cuddle my plush avocado for the rest of the night and cry my poser wannabe vegan heart out...
@@HunterBelkiran This is only because we are raised from birth, to think of ourselves as individuals and separate from something that we could really never be apart from.
I feel digital detoxx is the ONLY soultion.. I have no PC I use partner's, no mobile phone and i hippie aged 48.. We in Norway use water to power electricity, but the cars don't work this way, other things don't work this way and water to pump electricity? Many lands don't have even enough water to survive on.. I too an anxious for this world
Sure you will buddy. Just wait until your health fails on you then you'll change your tune. Just remember your health is more important than some cow or pig that doesn't give a shit about you anyways. If you can remember that you won't have to torture yourself for as long when your health goes out the window. Happens all the time. Why do you think it is there's so many exvegans?
@@twn5858 There's so many ex omnivores. Being vegan is healthier if done correctly. Most are dying of preventable lifestyle diseases not of nutritional deficiency. Demonstrate how eating a cow or pig brings health benefits.
If I’m not mistaken, a lot of land in the US was grassland (not forest land) before it became farmland. Instead of planting trees, I would love to see the original flora come back and maybe even see the American bison running around again!
I love how you use research for every aspect you touch. I would like to have this amazing skill of searching and selecting good articles. You do a great job!!❤️
@@pacmanmcgavin7034 😆 intel.........so you do realize that NYC is one of like 3 cities that the DOJ has declared "anarchist jurisdiction" which means we could see military reserves as part of the normal scenery on our streets.
All your videos are entertaining (fun) and deliver so many facts in such a short-space of time. The new world that you describe sounds like we are returning to a sort of Eden. It amazes me that we really have a very large part of the solution in our own hands. Plus it's better for our bodies. But the world nourishes us, we should make sure that we look after it before it's too late. Keep up the great work!
But but but.....the human population would explode because people will live longer. But I guess we will have lots more space and air and water. So, yeah, count me in.
Maybe not! One of the biggest predictors of fertility rate is child mortality, so the less children die, the less children people have. The fertility rate would hopefully decrease
@@jeffk464 well but we currently have to water all the plants that the animals are eating. Plus we water the animals. So, I think that if we are only watering the plants that WE eat, we might just be okay!
Omg there's so much more ground to cover. Just completed my MRes today and my thesis was on nitrate leaching and it's so overwhelming to see how many papers there are demonstrateing how much animal agriculture is destroying our environment. I'm so happy you've made this bitesized video though. I really loved it!
@@Abdulrahman-gj5vh No, because they're just too expensive and with COVID I can't read if I'm not buying :') I don't think I've tried anything new since March, just because of the no-touching dilemma.
Lots of vegan food is factory-made with long ingredient lists, especially all these meat, egg and cheese imitations vegans crave so much. Don't tell me all eat wfpb, it''s not true
One vegan a time! It started with me now my family is vegan and my sibling's partner came after! Now the family of my inlaw made the change. It didn't happen overnight and I didn't push I just showed the science and luckily they were sensible and made the right choice! GO VEGAN!👍👍👍👍🥳🥳🥳
@Linus Gallagher Nice false dichotomy you got there. Science has a lot to do with veganism and it supports the moral aspect of it. It's fine if you want to do it based on moral alone but most people I interact with that have gone vegan do it for health and then they make the ethical connection with the animals. Coming to attack me verbally for relying on scientific facts on a science based channel only shows your lack of understanding and that you live in your own self absorbed bubble. Good day to you sir.
This would be amazing! 🌍💚 I wonder how quickly the population would grow if people stopped dying of diet related diseases... Also, if everyone went vegan we would need to try to switch to mainly organic rotation agriculture because intensive plant agriculture using chemicals is causing devastating amounts of soil degradation which destroys ecosystems. Very thought-provoking video :)
The fact is that the land use would be much less than what's used right now and the damage done by agriculture would be much less. As you've seen in the video, the majority of farmed crops goes to animals.
And if you count how many animals die for your diet you can see how much grain they consume. So if you don't have all these animals eating a lot and dying you have so much extra crops to feed people
Frances Moore Lappe’s Diet for a Small Planet estimates that people eating the Standard American Diet require 2 football fields worth of food to sustain them for a year. Now, I have no idea how big a football field is, but that doesn’t matter since Lappe suggested that a single football field could sustain 7 vegans. So 2 fields would sustain 14 vegans or one meat-eater.
I can't wait to be able to walk around or even be in my own apartment, without smelling some poor animal being cooked up. These smells are really starting to get to me more and more as time goes on. I'm glad I only live in a triplex, so only a few units to worry about.
Even if we ate half as much meat it would be a huge transformation, freeing up a lot of land for forests to sequester even more carbon and to promote biodiversity.
Are you stupid? That debate is open and is between vegans, what the 'don't post more videos' has to do with that subject? Avi is exposing a revision and it will be addressed at some point.
We are responsible for being complacent to the corruption of our evil history. As individuals we can resonate with a vibration of compassion and care. What is the alternative? You see? When more and more people choose to be enlightened, responsible and steadfast in their conviction for Truth then the Town, City, Nation and then the World will not be under a dark cloud of hatred, misuse and down right disgusting acts and thoughts of unsoulfull attacks upon our most innocent of lives, our children aka our future. I believe it's biblical although I have no religion. We are One. Creation is a dual matrix system. There is a unholy trinity and a Holy Trinity. We have the freedom of choice so they say. Well when balance is wanted, balance will be had. I had to see for myself the deep lies of the food system (as a farmer) before I could even realise how evil the system had become and thats with alot of good intended people doing what they thought was/is right. I stopped killing animals for a living. I became mostly plant based. So personal choice will compound on it's self. There is so much to this but honestly your thoughts and feelings matter and to be in a state of hate will only feed the loosh that the Phoenicians need to stay alive and well on our present timeline. They are the hidden hands behind all their puppets. The end of this year will reveil the depths of their evil and the Earth will once again have heaven on Earth. It is a spiritual lesson if we choose to participate. Or.... you can be recycled and come back to this "Experience " and try awakening yourself back to yourself. God only wants clarity. Side note: Not all of us here have souls and are only pawns to be placemarkers for our benefit of self actualization. Go within. 911 represents the temples of our forehead (11) and the 9 represents the pineal gland that is our Godhead within. The 911 attacks were symbolic of destroying our connection to Source. Don't drink the koolaid. As a farmer, I cannot kill anymore to "Make a living", Meat production is a lie. Death does not give life. Let the worms do the work and build our soils. Stop eating FLESH and start loving everyone no matter what. The tides are turning and you are the witness. Big hugs!!🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗#Saveourchildren
I would recommend everyone to watch the documentary „kiss the ground“ on netflix. Its about how agriculture can be regenerative rather than degenerate landscapes
Love you so much, thanks for making content like this and helping someone like me (pretty lazy when it comes to research and academics even though i'm very interested in it) understand and learn about the science of veganism. I want to become a nutritionist one day and there's not been one of your videos that I've watched that hasn't been a benefit to that goal. Keep goin
*Dannnnnggg brotha!* This video was absolutely incredible. 1st off, this might very well be my favourite video you've ever made. You by all accounts did a phenomenal job. 2nd, if you would ever be willing to make that 2 hour video where you go in depth, as a collegiate student of an interdisciplinary degree with concentrations in Sustainability and Desert Food Production, I would be exceptionally interested in diving into the research that deeply 🙏🙏 You've always been one of my favourite UA-camrs because, in large part due to your and Dr. Greger's content, the values of thinking critically and citing your information with peer-reviewed sources became much more valued and disseminated in the plant based community at large. The internet is chalked full of many exceptional, charismatic, and well intentioned people who make claims all day long and never cite even a single source. It's like a breath of fresh air coming across content that is well cited because it gives you the ability to dive deeper yourself and deconstruct the information as best as you know how. Otherwise it's just a postulated statement as far as the viewers are concerned. That being said, I'm somewhat familiar with a great deal of this information, but I am definitely looking forward to going through the data points I haven't seen yet. If anyone is interested in checking out most of the research I've been gathering with Sustainability, health, and ethics, with pandemic and ethics being much more scant, but will always be improving and adding to this resource as time goes on, so feel free to save the link and check back every so often 🙏😁 docs.google.com/document/d/1o-BFoikIpUNaEkjWkR7c5Ix-xW-Pz6h56sZyXvgqqLs/edit?usp=drivesdk I'm not claiming all of it is perfectly accurate or even updated, which I will get to later today, but I like to think it's a fairly useful document.. Also, if anyone notices any blatant errors, please let me know and show me so I can improve! Sending much love to everyone! 🙌💙☮️ Lastly I just wanna say that veganism changed my life so dramatically for the better, it's hard to fathom. I'll share my story for those to whom it is relevant: I've always been a very sensitive and compassionate person, but definitely never made the link between animal products and the abused entailed, as I had been carefully trained to never inquire about that. During the winter of 2015, I watched the documentary Earthlings on Netflix, witnessing the literal horrors of the factory farm industry (which produces 99% of ALL animal products, according to the USDA) I had been supporting for so long for the VERY FIRST TIME in my life. adaptt.org www.sentienceinstitute.org/us-factory-farming-estimates Having always been a deeply compassionate and sensitive person, this unveiling truth RATTLED my soul to the CORE and initiated my first experience with exceptionally deep expurgation. I immediately went entirely plant-based afterwards, leaving behind dead flesh forever and altogether which inadvertently sparked the most profound and ineffably precious transformation in my life that I've ever had the blessing of experiencing. After a long time, years, when I finally felt like my heart had settled enough to consider looking again, I revisited the documentary of Earthlings by rewatching it and also watching Dominion and in doing so realized the egregious abuses that my nonvegan actions were still causing. Now, having been FULLY VEGAN for so long (coming up on 4 years now), I have experienced an acceleration of SUCH potently salubrious health outcomes that previously I had never before even fathomed might have been graspable for me in my lifetime, and yet it STILL just gets better and better every year! I'll explain in more detail. My mind has been opened to the limitless potential and possibilities I have in my life. I've become astronomically more deeply in tune with myself, my body, and my spirituality than I ever have before. Being in alignment with my innermost values (of not causing unnecessary harm to innocent victims) has been a profound shift for me. As far as my physical health though, I feel so pumped with life force energy that I literally get cravings to work out and feel rapturous during and after the workouts. I'm astounded by the exceptionally prodigious experience that I'm having and more amazingly know that it is ONLY just the *tip* of the iceberg! I'll find myself sometimes crying tears of joy sometimes because I feel so wonderful, I usually feel excellently balanced/vibrant as a baseline, and I've never felt nor measured so well in my physical health by every consideration! I feel as though I've been given a precious miracle of the truth of life. After discovering Nutritionfacts.Org, among countless other fantasic resources for quality information, such as Mic the Vegan on UA-cam, I ignited my passion for research -especially in the sphere of health, and have now decided to become a whole foods, plant-based registered dietician with the Dieticians for Professional Integrity ^-^ Not only that, but I have mountains of vegan research in sustainability, health, some ethics, and soon pandemics as well gathered which is ever expanding in depth and quality
During these exercises, I would feel the release of all this energy in a big rush that felt phenomenal and I would perform way better at my physical activities than I ever would have expected from myself, and not from pushing myself, but from just _releasing_ all of this pent up, wonderful energy inside me -it felt so cathartic and even better, I guess you can call it an endorphin rush, would flood through my body during and after. Often times, this led to the tears of ecstacy in the relaxing moments after having released all of that energy to satisfaction. This continued until now I'm at the point where I still feel exuberantly rapturous while pushing myself to my limits every single day with both cardio and strength training, but I actually STILL get these bursts of energy, even with all this fitness I'm doing, so sometimes you can catch me hitting extra sets or extra runs at the random times I feel compelled to 😁😁 My health momentum just keeps building as my mind and body are developing to be so much sharper, stronger, and energized. I've never been in a place so great in my health and life as right now and I can CONFIDENTLY chalk it ALL up to the dietary changes I made. Especially considering that I used to eat cadavers and bodily secretions, yet I worked out even harder back then and was nonetheless having less energy, less pleasure, slower recovery, less motivation, less focus, less health, less mental acuity, less endurance, etc. As soon as I took these out of my diet, *everything* changed _dramatically_ for the better. And now, in large part thanks to NutritionFacts.Org and Mic the Vegan on UA-cam, I have a LOT of science which explains exactly how and why this has happened to me. I even impress the people I live or work out with in my health, fitness, and mind, based on their comments. I used to feel like life was a half-baked sort of washed out experience. Now I am LITERALLY chasing my wildest dreams and *never felt better!* I still can hardly believe what has happened to me because it had been such a paradigm shift for me. I *_really_* want as MANY people to have experiences like this as possible. I was SO NAÏVE to the power of food choices in affect one's life -that's all notwithstanding the complete transformation of my life experience that I will call spiritual or psychological, however you want to look at it. Food choice is WAY more potent a choice than I had EVER imagined, but it makes so much sense with the lens of "You are what you eat." It's hard to imagine being more thrilled to be alive, even though I know this exuberance for being alive is only going to continue to steadily improve as it has since the start and as the research supports 😁 So if anyone is wondering or waiting still, DON'T HESITATE! GO whole food vegan, take B12, and tap into these incredible and corroborated benefits! Cheers everyone ^-^
Great video! Another advantage I thought of would be the change in overall consciousness of humans. Stuff like new generations of children being taught that animals are not here for us to exploit and how that mindset can carry over to other domains of our lives. In other words, we'll become a more compassionate species overall.
Mic recently (past couple weeks or so) did a video on this topic and I don't remember if it referenced Vegan Gains. Have you already seen that one? I'll see if I can find the video title.
The videos I was thinking of are: A Vegan Diet Doesn't Reverse Heart Disease After All? Also: The Great Heart Disease Debate is Cancelled | My New Take...
RemarkableSean yeah it was VG live debate one and the 39min video he did that plant based diet does not reverse of heart disease. It’s just weird to me bc VG was saying this also right? And plus I’ve done nutrition in plant based diet and saw all the explanation and studies that it does. So a bit confused what to think.
@@WhiteDraqon if you're hoping to learn more for your own purposes, I'd have to highly recommend reading Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Esselstyn as well as Whole by Colin Campbell. The more time I spend in the nitty gritty with research, scientific studies, and books/papers from doctors and scientists who've dedicated their lives to a subject, the more I realize that many UA-camrs suffer from the short-sightedness that plagues self-described "hackers" who seem to think they can shortcut their way to solutions and make firm conclusions from murky and possibly conflicting data. Esselstyn's book obviously deals with heart disease and what it really means for humans in a very direct and practical sense. There seems to be a semantic argument going on over the word "reversal" and Esselstyn needs not waste any time with semantics when he's saving and improving lives. Whole by Campbell is so enlightening - it goes in depth on the calculation errors that can arise from relying too heavily on a microscopic view of data while throwing out a wholistic view for concern that only apples-to-apples numbers are useful. It's among my very favorite books. It's too bad the debate got cancelled, I think there's enough maturity in heart health to make it a good time for newer doctors and scientists to be challenging Esselstyn's work. I think that would spark the kind of interest that could really benefit the medical and nutrition fields. None of this is to say anything objectionable about the individuals I disagree with. I think they're all pretty great (except Chris Kresser, I think he's really harmful) and from my biased perspective, I think they have a little learning to go - much like myself!
It’s one thing to let the planet go to hell because we don’t know how to produce viable alternative energy, but to destroy the world because we want our barbecue?! I mean I’d laugh my ass off if it weren’t so absurdly tragic.
The bay i grew up in on an island in greece is now almost fishless from the industrial fishing outside of the bay and the local fisherman within the bay, who still cant seem to grasp their responsibility for this tragedy..and none of those fisherman by the way needed the fish .. i know most of them personally. As a child i snorkelled there in wonder.. now its just an underwater desert. The same is true for the bays i swim in indonesia.
#TeamMic I hate how you've been treated lately buddy, so even though I have nothing to say on the environment, I want you to know that you have my support. So here's a comment for the algorithm:)
Nice video. It feels a bit like the book from alan weismann the world without us projecting into the future, but just with people and actually caring and trying to change for the better. Will be though to get there probably impossible but we will see how close se get in a few decades.
Mike, if you can, please. Do the extended version of this.
It could be a series, a UA-cam Members thing, PayPal or Patreon paid, whatever. I'd gladly pay for it and we need it.
Your videos are SUCH a sanity relief, a refined source of good science, a very helpful analytical perspective on what bad science in those topics is and WHY it's so. And much more.
*I* alone could do a video just to state how good and time saving your production is!
It is VERY important.
You already have, single handedly, outdone the entire team of the Hot Mess channel, from "It's Okay to be Smart" people (if I'm not misremembering the source channel). And they DID do a hot mess of a job not being able to see their carnistic ideology downplaying straight up scientific facts, which, on the contrary path, is your specialty to bring forth.
Please consider it kindly. I know it's a lot of work, maybe you can hire people to help in the production. Make a Kickstarter/crowd funding, I KNOW I'm not alone in this. We'll finance it along with the leadership of your effort and expertise.
Please let it sink in.
I send you much love in the most thankful manner. You helped me SO much in activism (and to BECOME active).
And I'm a biologist... You helped me unlearn so many vices and reproduction of carnist, industry supported lies that were in the school books I learned with, heard from my college professors and teached back at my students when I was still a teacher in Brazil.
thank YOU.
That is a great idea. Please do it, such a programme needs to be available
Brilliant comment mate! I wholeheartedly agree on so many levels. I was so disappointed by a hot mess because they have so much potential, but completely skirt around veganism entirely.
I'm all for this. I would love to go to work to help make this happen.
I too would pay good money for a deep dive into all the info! 💯💯💯
great idea!
The environment is what convinced me to become a reducetarian. Ethics sent me over the edge to become vegan.
Veganism is the way to go for humans, animals, and the earth.
@azorel azorel This has already been debunked.
azorel azorel
Nothing in that article even comes close to suggesting that a vegan diet isn’t more beneficial for the environment.
For starters, the vegan-friendly foods discussed in the article aren’t exclusive to vegans. Non-vegans consume them too. Secondly, the objection levied by the article isn’t about veganism versus non-veganism. Rather, it’s about importing versus growing locally. It has nothing to do with veganism.
Let’s assume that we all grow our food locally. Which lifestyle is likely to be better for the environment in terms of water consumption, land use, pollution, carbon emissions, etc.?
@azorel azorel the article concludes if you source locally, it doesnt put strain on other countries for their food. But if the billions of animals in our agricultural system weren't eating so much, then we would have enough food for all of those starving in impoverished nations. Meat is a privilege in most countries. It holds on to US tax subsidies like a crutch. If it were running standard market price, less people would be eating it and our poorer population in food deserts would not be surviving off of McDonald's. I get there are some regions that absolutely rely on their livestock to survive, but the average middle to upper class American, which I'm going to assume you are since you have access to both a device and internet to watch this on, do NOT need to be eating so much meat. And there are much more sustainable vegan food options than bougie avocado toasts, look into staple foods from Ital diets and Indian diets.
@azorel azorel if you actually watched the video you would find out
@azorel azorel then why are you here to make your irrational little comment? To make yourself feel better for needlessly paying to have animals slaughtered all whilst destroying your own bodily health and the environment? You remind me of my classmates that never show up to lecture and wonder why they bomb the exams
It's actually kind of ridiculous how such a minor part of ones life as the consumption of animal products could have such a major impact on the planet
It's not minor when you stop and think about it. These innocent victims are born and raised in hellish conditions for their entire lives before the knife goes across their throat and they die. You already know what it's like for animals to be born, live, and die from your own family and perhaps pets. Plants are obviously different since it's just water, dirt, soil, seed (and fertilizer) without any of the complications of having a nervous system, digestive system, etc.
@@ParadymShiftVegan I'm pretty sure the poster meant it's a minor part of a human's life. It is pretty much the whole life for the poor animals, as you say. Misery from birth to death. It's heart breaking.
@@GS-lq2is Definitely. I could agree more. Perhaps I could have better clarified. What I mean to say is it's a major part of our human lives as well, but we are simply disassociated and disconnected psychologically from the reality of what we are actually doing every time we pay for that.
@@ParadymShiftVegan Oh, I see. Very true - it's incredible how disconnected we are from this atrocity. I know I was, even while I considered myself to be an animal lover. Now that my blinders are off, I (like many vegans) wish I had done it much, much sooner.
As long as you eat foods that have to cross 2 oceans, it won't change anything
"If you want to live in a vegan world, you have to create a vegan world."
Thanks for helping to create it Mike 🙂👍
46-80% of all the plastic in the oceans comes from fishing-related activities, so many reasons to go vegan, thanks for such an awesome video!
how?
@@elzee4253 Fishing boats lose nets and fishing line (miles long) quite easily, it breaks, falls in the sea. Lobster and crab pots lose their line to their buoy and become ghost pots sat at the bottom of the sea, tubs and buoys fall out of the boats and it's all made of plastic.
There are many studies and much research in the area and my partner and I have personally cleaned hundreds of beaches around the UK and done in-water cleaning whilst doing scuba/freediving of ghost nets and pots and almost 90% of the rubbish we collect is fishing related.
@@KelpandFern thanks for the info!
Oh boy this comment is grossly innacurate!
Just stop subsidizing it and it will become more expensive and phase out
Always 'frosts my apples' that my tax $ go to animal agriculture subsidies. (I grew up in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada...this was a common curse).
Very true! It always shocks me to see how cheap meat and dairy products are compared to veggies and fruit. All veggies need is water! How about animals? They need so much more water, plants to eat (which again need water), medication, people tending to them, machines to process them and so on. It's INSANE!!! Let me know if you have any numbers, but I bet 100g of beef would cost around $30 without subsidies...
100% agree. Let meat prices go back to the ancient time. Availability does not mean everyone can afford it. Let them rich people eat them if they want.
Forget about that buddy. Do you really think the government gives a shit about what you want?
Beyond this, incorporating the externality costs in would end it super quickly
imagine all that LAND!!! what did it even look like before factory farming??
All that land certainly smelt better. Just fresh air.
Not sure about other countries but in the UK they were mainly massive forests, now its just flat fields everywhere.
Pretty much before lentils fields got planted
Monocropping also needs land too.........
one more huge source of vegan fertilizer: compost. Huge emissions savings and prevention of particularly harmful greenhouse gas types if we stop throwing our food in landfills
So true. My trash bin only got my kids’ junk food wrappers in it. If they’re gonna eat animal flesh, they’ll eat it outside of the house. In this house even egg shells from my daughter’s hen got composted. All the kitchen waste that is veggies peels go into my stock pot then into my compost bin. All fruit peels go straight into compost bins. In 2 months they’ll feed my mom’s fruit trees (we got jack fruit, mango, dragon fruit & banana trees), my green beans, loofah, zucchini, tomato vines, ginger, galangal & turmeric plants and the liquid that come out of it every week feed all the other veggies that i grow hydroponically. No organic waste leave my house.
Yup, left over greens, fruit and veg skins are full of the main components. Nitrates, Phosphorus, potassium
@@ima7333 amazing! 👏👏
@Gina Bean The three main components of fertilizer are found in abundance of plants. Why do you think it would be hard?
@Gina Bean Urine is high in nitrogen
"Environmentalism is fun and not depressing at all!" XD
I meant to just leave a comment for the algorithm, but that line needed pointing out :D
One of the biggest benefits of the world going vegan, would be the associated higher awareness and more compassionate lifestyle that comes along with it (for most people). This would translate to so many other improvements in how we treat people and approach major, shared problems.
Yes, true. Since I went vegan, I question more about the things surrounding us. I got to study more and I get along people better. Because humancentric problems are so tiny compared to animals suffering. I never been this calm and comprehensive.
It almost looks like the Keystone to bringing about a better standard of living globally.
@Linus Gallagher Agreed! Terrible people will always exist. Most wars didn't start because of the human diet.
Definitely.
There's too many vegan misanthropes for me to believe this
“Nuts are carbon negative” ‼️
That’s nuts right ?
Bust a nut; think of the planet!
Shame about the oxalates
THIS. HAS. TO. GO. VIRAL.
If this went viral it would only hurt his cause. I’m a meat eater and this did not convince me at all and only seemed like a far fetched not well thought out idea at all. I would like to see a more well thought out version of this, but that would be an insane amount of research, time, money. Like we are talking geopolitics, which are nuisanced to put it in the simplest of terms. What happens in China affects hunter gatherers in Kenya. There is a delicate geopolitical balance. It’s not as easy as “lEtS jUsT gEt rId of fArmS teehee”
CC CC I've spoken to many carnists and guided them to sound research and authoritative sources on veganism and still they find flaws in it even when there are none, or at the very least, when it still is a better alternative than continuing with the present state of affairs. Why? The truth is that most carnists have a very strong attachment to the sensuous pleasure of eating meat: tasting its flavor, and feeling the texture and juiciness of meat. I bet your salivary glands are already working just by reading this, aren't they? That's why it is paramount to continue supporting companies that create plant based meat (fake meat) that can compete against real meat in all the aforementioned aspects. One big problem is government and the collusion there exists with the animal farm industry: the government subsidizes the cost of meat to such a degree that not only does it make for affordable meat production but it also masks the real cost it has on the environment by helping produce it.
@@JosefK2275 THAT
@@cc-dt1sh I see your point. But ditching animal products is still our best bet for global solutions...
@@cc-dt1sh Hunter gatherers in Kenya?🤔🤔
My fiance is installing a floor on a dairy. I overheard him talk to his dad on the phone about how cow's milk is weird. And he mentioned to me, by that logic he should stop eating meat all together... the gears are turning!!
YES IT IS, I mean even Kurzgesagt (though not explicitly anti or pro-vegan) is recognizing that animal industries are really, really bad for the environment. Their latest video on climate change seems to reflect the changing views of people with meat and dairy, and I don't think people back then for the last 10, 20 years would have done that.
Have your finance watch the 5 minute video:Dairy is scary with Erin Janus(I can bearly get thru it). Dairy Cows are enslaved, their motherhood exploited and lives ended in execution. Much love and respect xoxoxox!
Just hope you read some literature(Maybe Neal Bernalrd or Campbell etc) before your fiance starts this sort of diet. I live in Norway and 8 months of the year we have no sun and I lived like this for years. I am vegan 6 years. But I red so much I know how to compensate for the lack of sun. Still blood check show too little D3 vitamin. But this WAS MY ONLY problem! I need vegan ablet D3. This should be yours only problem, hope not even that, go sit in the sun too . Good luck! :)
I needed this after this ultra depressing day.
You and I both
I hope you have a better day tomorrow! 🌱
It's a great dream, and it encourages me to talk to everyone I know about why I'm vegan and hope we can turn this world around. Maybe we won't get there but I don't want to be in my 90's and wish I had done more to bring about the changes needed to heal the planet.
Kick ass today :)
sounds like you need meat!
I’M CONVINCED!!!! I’ve been vegan for about 2 1/2 years and will never go back! I love your channel so much. You’re right on with fantastic facts and very listenable. Congratulations on hitting 2 million views for your last video. You deserve to be heard!
If we were all 100% vegan before, we'd never have the Covid pandemic.
Mike's videos always come out for me after bedtime; this one 5 minutes before. In before the trolls....
There would also be no suicides, domestic violence, drug addicts, and no emissions from vehicles because most to all those things are in animal agriculture. Produce is all grown locally by small time family farmers and it's grown organically. Walmart is the biggest purchaser of such produce each Walmart for their get supplied by different local family produce farmers they only have between two to three acres of land and use a few teaspoons of water a year
@Linus Gallagher,
Simple insult from a simple man. Is it as good as it gets?
@Linus Gallagher,
Thank you for correcting me. Now then, it's not often I'll say this, but why don't you stick your face in a meat grinder and go and live in the woods? It's just a suggestion.
@Linus Gallagher,
It seems you omitted the more relevant bit. Anyway, may you be well. Why might we all be polite and kind to each other?
veganism causes more animal suffering
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Fantastic work. Comprehensive analysis. Wish more people could see this. Thank you!
ahhhhh......in a perfect vegan world......love it!!
The worlds never gonna be fully vegan so stop beating a dead horse. Also, here’s how the world would look fully vegan. There’d be no soil left due to top soil run off from mono-cropping, so we wouldn’t be able to grow anything and we’d starve. There’d be world wide health problems due to vitamin and mineral deficiencies from uninformed people (only a small portion of the population is vegan now and look how many of them do it wrong). And finally processed food companies would have a monopoly on the food market. I’m all for being plant based but we’re omnivores, we have the ability to extract different sources of nutrition from both animal and plant foods. So do yourselves a favour people, eat more plants but eat some animals too.
Also, I had to put this comment here because Mic is so fragile that he can't handle any push back on his ideas, so he blocked me for this.........
@@ynghuch Your attempts at researching a projected future is interesting but not correct. The ONLY vitamin deficiency, which is still not entirely proven by science, is B12 and, as it is, we fortify cows milk with D so, yeah, problem solved. Fortification is an old practice. The amount of land needed to grow the entire world's food is far smaller than what we use now for cattle. There's lots of land to rotate crops on. "Starvation" would never be an issue. Whether we are herbivores, or omnivores, NOBODY needs to be tortured and slaughtered en mass for ME to live. If people choose to raise and slaughter their own animals, fine. But, the animal farms have to go. Perhaps if people are forced to kill animals themselves instead of conveniently purchasing body parts at the local store, maybe then we will see how much they really love their meat. Mike does his research and reports it like any good scientist and he would NEVER "beat a dead horse", or a live one. If you disagree so much, why do you watch and comment on pro-vegan videos????? There are plenty of other channels that support your viewpoint.
Liked. Shared. This is an important projection. Thank you Mic
Mike, you are the man! AMAZED by your knowledge and understanding of the world! MAD RESPECT!
This is sooo awesome! Thank you!💜
Keep up the good work, Mic!
Mic, Thank you for this video and all your hard work😊
Best video ever!! I became vegan mainly for the environment and this hits home for me!! Thank you so much!!
@Linus Gallagher Well, I don't eat any animal products or buy anything made from animals. If the definition of vegan is somehow different let me know.
Btw. We are all on the same side, so no need to be mean ;)
@Linus Gallagher People like you are the reason why so many meat eating folks hate vegans and it's completely contra productive. Do you want people to stop killing animals or not? If your answer is NO, continue hating and shaming other vegans/plant-based folks, but if you really want to make a change and help current meat eating people transition, try to show compassion for people as well, not just for animals.
@Linus Gallagher Wow, now you have really hurt my feelings... I might have to cuddle my plush avocado for the rest of the night and cry my poser wannabe vegan heart out...
@@Shura3 hes probably trolling and not even vegan, this lad linus
@@Shura3 hes trolling you. Hes been doing it for years lol literally years 🤣 imagine having that kind of time?! I could run 2 businesses
O, sharing this as much as possible! Amazing info, as usual!! :)
Yeah, I want to post this to Facebook every day.
I feel so anxious for this world.. :(
me too I am seriously in need of a psychiatrist over it
Its alright
@@Anthony-nx4vr I often forget that us humans are apart of nature, too.
@@HunterBelkiran This is only because we are raised from birth, to think of ourselves as individuals and separate from something that we could really never be apart from.
I feel digital detoxx is the ONLY soultion.. I have no PC I use partner's, no mobile phone and i hippie aged 48.. We in Norway use water to power electricity, but the cars don't work this way, other things don't work this way and water to pump electricity? Many lands don't have even enough water to survive on.. I too an anxious for this world
Thanks for this video Mic. I would’ve watched a longer one on all these topics. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Excellent video. Thanks!
I don't know about the world
But after watching this vedio I stay vegan for my whole life
Sure you will buddy. Just wait until your health fails on you then you'll change your tune. Just remember your health is more important than some cow or pig that doesn't give a shit about you anyways. If you can remember that you won't have to torture yourself for as long when your health goes out the window. Happens all the time. Why do you think it is there's so many exvegans?
@@twn5858 There's so many ex omnivores. Being vegan is healthier if done correctly. Most are dying of preventable lifestyle diseases not of nutritional deficiency. Demonstrate how eating a cow or pig brings health benefits.
Good!! Me too! 6 years am and will keep on going :). Remember every person can make a difference!...
Interesting study. Just a vegan having some rice and popping a B12 here.
Acknowledging while biting in a brocolli
You really don't need to take a b12 supplement, there is nuturial yeast, and sometimes some foods have it in them just gotta look.
@@jacobharlan4468 My yeast expired man.
@Scott Pickering yet the most studied and secure b12 supplement is cyanocobalamin.
@Scott Pickering not true.
If I’m not mistaken, a lot of land in the US was grassland (not forest land) before it became farmland. Instead of planting trees, I would love to see the original flora come back and maybe even see the American bison running around again!
Mic, did you see that David Attenborough joined Instagram? Hoping this helps push the environmental aspect of veganism at least!
I love how you use research for every aspect you touch. I would like to have this amazing skill of searching and selecting good articles. You do a great job!!❤️
I see mic the vegan, I click
I see Bart Kay critique Mic the Vegan, I click
Thank you for putting the research into this! Will be great to send to people as a reference. More important now than ever 💚🌍🌱
Where did you get your degree in sustainability? That's so awesome!!
I love your videos ♡ So informative, clear and useful! Not boring at all! Thank you for your hard work! ♡
*Create a Better World by...............Living Vegan*
@Linus Gallagher *Tried & True Memes Lives Matter*
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@@pacmanmcgavin7034 😆 intel.........so you do realize that NYC is one of like 3 cities that the DOJ has declared "anarchist jurisdiction" which means we could see military reserves as part of the normal scenery on our streets.
What arrogance
@@francisdevine5773 Where, sweetie?
All your videos are entertaining (fun) and deliver so many facts in such a short-space of time. The new world that you describe sounds like we are returning to a sort of Eden. It amazes me that we really have a very large part of the solution in our own hands. Plus it's better for our bodies. But the world nourishes us, we should make sure that we look after it before it's too late. Keep up the great work!
I think we would also just have a kinder world without all these factories open slaughterhouses the crime rate would go way down
Thank you Mic for this video!
It is going to be the best month for you! Just stay safe. Happy month.
This is fantastic. Thank you for creating this!
Watching this video and snapping back to reality, was like waking up from a beautiful dream :/
NEXT: How the planet would transform WITHOUT HUMANS
That's just ecofashism
Humans can make Earth a better place than if it was without us. We aren't doing a great job at that now but it's definitely doable.
@@kabkorange I'm sure you'll find a name for everything
@@GregVidua Yeah, with MINIMALISM & ANTINATALISM!
@@mikeskylark1594 no, not at all.
Governor of CA Gavin Newsom needs a copy of this video so he can discuss this topic with Californians while discussing electronic vehicles.
Mic, I think you covered everything. Thanks for the vid!
But but but.....the human population would explode because people will live longer. But I guess we will have lots more space and air and water. So, yeah, count me in.
Nah we will be fighting wars over water,.
The population is already on track to be declining by 2100.
Maybe not! One of the biggest predictors of fertility rate is child mortality, so the less children die, the less children people have. The fertility rate would hopefully decrease
@@jeffk464 well but we currently have to water all the plants that the animals are eating. Plus we water the animals. So, I think that if we are only watering the plants that WE eat, we might just be okay!
@@vegantattoo7292 they dont water the grass and the grain. I think... Mostly. Somethingsomething rice.
Omg there's so much more ground to cover. Just completed my MRes today and my thesis was on nitrate leaching and it's so overwhelming to see how many papers there are demonstrateing how much animal agriculture is destroying our environment. I'm so happy you've made this bitesized video though. I really loved it!
If the world become 100% vegan , we would finally stopped worrying about ingredients lists on food😅 Great video , thank you!
OMG, I hadn't considered this, but think about the time we'd save NOT reading labels!
I know right? Have you SEEN the ingredient list on beyond burgers and impossible burgers?
@@Abdulrahman-gj5vh No, because they're just too expensive and with COVID I can't read if I'm not buying :') I don't think I've tried anything new since March, just because of the no-touching dilemma.
Lots of vegan food is factory-made with long ingredient lists, especially all these meat, egg and cheese imitations vegans crave so much. Don't tell me all eat wfpb, it''s not true
Lol if the world went vegan the population would vanish
Love you for all these great videos
I love that the UN declared meat as the world‘s most urgent problem! 🌱❤️
Amazing!! Thank you for making this 💚🌎
Love your channel bro : )
Awesome video. Thanks Mic!
THIS. IS. GENIOUS.
Thanks Mic! You're the best!
One vegan a time! It started with me now my family is vegan and my sibling's partner came after! Now the family of my inlaw made the change. It didn't happen overnight and I didn't push I just showed the science and luckily they were sensible and made the right choice! GO VEGAN!👍👍👍👍🥳🥳🥳
@Linus Gallagher leave
@Linus Gallagher Nice false dichotomy you got there. Science has a lot to do with veganism and it supports the moral aspect of it. It's fine if you want to do it based on moral alone but most people I interact with that have gone vegan do it for health and then they make the ethical connection with the animals. Coming to attack me verbally for relying on scientific facts on a science based channel only shows your lack of understanding and that you live in your own self absorbed bubble. Good day to you sir.
@Linus Gallagher No real argument provided. Yeah definitely going on the troll list. Don't bother replying as I have turned off notifications.
How does this still have so few views. Thx for being such a great resource!
This would be amazing! 🌍💚 I wonder how quickly the population would grow if people stopped dying of diet related diseases... Also, if everyone went vegan we would need to try to switch to mainly organic rotation agriculture because intensive plant agriculture using chemicals is causing devastating amounts of soil degradation which destroys ecosystems. Very thought-provoking video :)
The fact is that the land use would be much less than what's used right now and the damage done by agriculture would be much less. As you've seen in the video, the majority of farmed crops goes to animals.
And if you count how many animals die for your diet you can see how much grain they consume. So if you don't have all these animals eating a lot and dying you have so much extra crops to feed people
Frances Moore Lappe’s Diet for a Small Planet estimates that people eating the Standard American Diet require 2 football fields worth of food to sustain them for a year.
Now, I have no idea how big a football field is, but that doesn’t matter since Lappe suggested that a single football field could sustain 7 vegans. So 2 fields would sustain 14 vegans or one meat-eater.
@@joemethven3035 wow cool so it could be the case that no extra agricultural land is needed
thanks, Mic! 💚
I can't wait to be able to walk around or even be in my own apartment, without smelling some poor animal being cooked up. These smells are really starting to get to me more and more as time goes on. I'm glad I only live in a triplex, so only a few units to worry about.
Been waiting for this!!
Notification squad 🤘🏾
Even if we ate half as much meat it would be a huge transformation, freeing up a lot of land for forests to sequester even more carbon and to promote biodiversity.
you shouldn't be posting any more vids until you properly address the reverse heart disease controversy
Are you stupid? That debate is open and is between vegans, what the 'don't post more videos' has to do with that subject? Avi is exposing a revision and it will be addressed at some point.
Excellent video.
We are responsible for being complacent to the corruption of our evil history. As individuals we can resonate with a vibration of compassion and care. What is the alternative? You see? When more and more people choose to be enlightened, responsible and steadfast in their conviction for Truth then the Town, City, Nation and then the World will not be under a dark cloud of hatred, misuse and down right disgusting acts and thoughts of unsoulfull attacks upon our most innocent of lives, our children aka our future. I believe it's biblical although I have no religion. We are One. Creation is a dual matrix system. There is a unholy trinity and a Holy Trinity. We have the freedom of choice so they say. Well when balance is wanted, balance will be had. I had to see for myself the deep lies of the food system (as a farmer) before I could even realise how evil the system had become and thats with alot of good intended people doing what they thought was/is right. I stopped killing animals for a living. I became mostly plant based. So personal choice will compound on it's self. There is so much to this but honestly your thoughts and feelings matter and to be in a state of hate will only feed the loosh that the Phoenicians need to stay alive and well on our present timeline. They are the hidden hands behind all their puppets. The end of this year will reveil the depths of their evil and the Earth will once again have heaven on Earth. It is a spiritual lesson if we choose to participate. Or.... you can be recycled and come back to this "Experience " and try awakening yourself back to yourself. God only wants clarity. Side note: Not all of us here have souls and are only pawns to be placemarkers for our benefit of self actualization. Go within. 911 represents the temples of our forehead (11) and the 9 represents the pineal gland that is our Godhead within. The 911 attacks were symbolic of destroying our connection to Source. Don't drink the koolaid. As a farmer, I cannot kill anymore to "Make a living", Meat production is a lie. Death does not give life. Let the worms do the work and build our soils. Stop eating FLESH and start loving everyone no matter what. The tides are turning and you are the witness.
Big hugs!!🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗#Saveourchildren
really nice editing. Love the overlay at 2:07
It would be wonderful to replace livestock and factory farms with crops.
Great video, Mic. Maybe everyone in the world will watch it and we'll be on our way. (We can dream).
Why should listen to you anymore you won't even debate Avi
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Avi is so boring
How old are you?
I hope this is ironic
@Linus Gallagher He's not, we need to stop this infighting.
I would recommend everyone to watch the documentary „kiss the ground“ on netflix. Its about how agriculture can be regenerative rather than degenerate landscapes
Lol. Seriously? Do people really believe this?
Love you so much, thanks for making content like this and helping someone like me (pretty lazy when it comes to research and academics even though i'm very interested in it) understand and learn about the science of veganism.
I want to become a nutritionist one day and there's not been one of your videos that I've watched that hasn't been a benefit to that goal. Keep goin
Would be amazing to see this happen.
I hope this video is widely shared for many people to listen and consider
I enjoy these longer videos. Awesome!
Thank you so much for including sources in your videos! Gives me plenty of reading material to cover before your next vid. 🌝
Your channel is so beneficial for me!
You’re a good man Mic!
Many wheat crops are grown with clover. Clover is a nitrogen-fixing plant
Excellent video, Mike 🤘
*Dannnnnggg brotha!* This video was absolutely incredible.
1st off, this might very well be my favourite video you've ever made. You by all accounts did a phenomenal job.
2nd, if you would ever be willing to make that 2 hour video where you go in depth, as a collegiate student of an interdisciplinary degree with concentrations in Sustainability and Desert Food Production, I would be exceptionally interested in diving into the research that deeply 🙏🙏
You've always been one of my favourite UA-camrs because, in large part due to your and Dr. Greger's content, the values of thinking critically and citing your information with peer-reviewed sources became much more valued and disseminated in the plant based community at large.
The internet is chalked full of many exceptional, charismatic, and well intentioned people who make claims all day long and never cite even a single source.
It's like a breath of fresh air coming across content that is well cited because it gives you the ability to dive deeper yourself and deconstruct the information as best as you know how.
Otherwise it's just a postulated statement as far as the viewers are concerned.
That being said, I'm somewhat familiar with a great deal of this information, but I am definitely looking forward to going through the data points I haven't seen yet.
If anyone is interested in checking out most of the research I've been gathering with Sustainability, health, and ethics, with pandemic and ethics being much more scant, but will always be improving and adding to this resource as time goes on, so feel free to save the link and check back every so often 🙏😁
docs.google.com/document/d/1o-BFoikIpUNaEkjWkR7c5Ix-xW-Pz6h56sZyXvgqqLs/edit?usp=drivesdk
I'm not claiming all of it is perfectly accurate or even updated, which I will get to later today, but I like to think it's a fairly useful document.. Also, if anyone notices any blatant errors, please let me know and show me so I can improve!
Sending much love to everyone! 🙌💙☮️
Lastly I just wanna say that veganism changed my life so dramatically for the better, it's hard to fathom.
I'll share my story for those to whom it is relevant:
I've always been a very sensitive and compassionate person, but definitely never made the link between animal products and the abused entailed, as I had been carefully trained to never inquire about that.
During the winter of 2015, I watched the documentary Earthlings on Netflix, witnessing the literal horrors of the factory farm industry (which produces 99% of ALL animal products, according to the USDA) I had been supporting for so long for the VERY FIRST TIME in my life.
adaptt.org
www.sentienceinstitute.org/us-factory-farming-estimates
Having always been a deeply compassionate and sensitive person, this unveiling truth RATTLED my soul to the CORE and initiated my first experience with exceptionally deep expurgation.
I immediately went entirely plant-based afterwards, leaving behind dead flesh forever and altogether which inadvertently sparked the most profound and ineffably precious transformation in my life that I've ever had the blessing of experiencing.
After a long time, years, when I finally felt like my heart had settled enough to consider looking again, I revisited the documentary of Earthlings by rewatching it and also watching Dominion and in doing so realized the egregious abuses that my nonvegan actions were still causing.
Now, having been FULLY VEGAN for so long (coming up on 4 years now), I have experienced an acceleration of SUCH potently salubrious health outcomes that previously I had never before even fathomed might have been graspable for me in my lifetime, and yet it STILL just gets better and better every year!
I'll explain in more detail.
My mind has been opened to the limitless potential and possibilities I have in my life. I've become astronomically more deeply in tune with myself, my body, and my spirituality than I ever have before. Being in alignment with my innermost values (of not causing unnecessary harm to innocent victims) has been a profound shift for me.
As far as my physical health though, I feel so pumped with life force energy that I literally get cravings to work out and feel rapturous during and after the workouts. I'm astounded by the exceptionally prodigious experience that I'm having and more amazingly know that it is ONLY just the *tip* of the iceberg!
I'll find myself sometimes crying tears of joy sometimes because I feel so wonderful, I usually feel excellently balanced/vibrant as a baseline, and I've never felt nor measured so well in my physical health by every consideration!
I feel as though I've been given a precious miracle of the truth of life. After discovering Nutritionfacts.Org, among countless other fantasic resources for quality information, such as Mic the Vegan on UA-cam, I ignited my passion for research -especially in the sphere of health, and have now decided to become a whole foods, plant-based registered dietician with the Dieticians for Professional Integrity ^-^ Not only that, but I have mountains of vegan research in sustainability, health, some ethics, and soon pandemics as well gathered which is ever expanding in depth and quality
During these exercises, I would feel the release of all this energy in a big rush that felt phenomenal and I would perform way better at my physical activities than I ever would have expected from myself, and not from pushing myself, but from just _releasing_ all of this pent up, wonderful energy inside me -it felt so cathartic and even better, I guess you can call it an endorphin rush, would flood through my body during and after.
Often times, this led to the tears of ecstacy in the relaxing moments after having released all of that energy to satisfaction.
This continued until now I'm at the point where I still feel exuberantly rapturous while pushing myself to my limits every single day with both cardio and strength training, but I actually STILL get these bursts of energy, even with all this fitness I'm doing, so sometimes you can catch me hitting extra sets or extra runs at the random times I feel compelled to 😁😁
My health momentum just keeps building as my mind and body are developing to be so much sharper, stronger, and energized. I've never been in a place so great in my health and life as right now and I can CONFIDENTLY chalk it ALL up to the dietary changes I made. Especially considering that I used to eat cadavers and bodily secretions, yet I worked out even harder back then and was nonetheless having less energy, less pleasure, slower recovery, less motivation, less focus, less health, less mental acuity, less endurance, etc.
As soon as I took these out of my diet, *everything* changed _dramatically_ for the better. And now, in large part thanks to NutritionFacts.Org and Mic the Vegan on UA-cam, I have a LOT of science which explains exactly how and why this has happened to me.
I even impress the people I live or work out with in my health, fitness, and mind, based on their comments.
I used to feel like life was a half-baked sort of washed out experience.
Now I am LITERALLY chasing my wildest dreams and *never felt better!*
I still can hardly believe what has happened to me because it had been such a paradigm shift for me.
I *_really_* want as MANY people to have experiences like this as possible.
I was SO NAÏVE to the power of food choices in affect one's life -that's all notwithstanding the complete transformation of my life experience that I will call spiritual or psychological, however you want to look at it.
Food choice is WAY more potent a choice than I had EVER imagined, but it makes so much sense with the lens of "You are what you eat." It's hard to imagine being more thrilled to be alive, even though I know this exuberance for being alive is only going to continue to steadily improve as it has since the start and as the research supports 😁
So if anyone is wondering or waiting still, DON'T HESITATE!
GO whole food vegan, take B12, and tap into these incredible and corroborated benefits!
Cheers everyone ^-^
Great video! Another advantage I thought of would be the change in overall consciousness of humans. Stuff like new generations of children being taught that animals are not here for us to exploit and how that mindset can carry over to other domains of our lives. In other words, we'll become a more compassionate species overall.
great vid!
reasons to go vegan: all of the ones that Mic mentioned. reasons to eat meat: iT tAsTeS gOoD
Dude AMAZING video! My parents will probably call it fake news lol. Some people don't trust scientific consensus.
This has to go viral 👀
Hey Mic! Is video-response coming to Vegan Gains and his friend debunking reversal of heart disease?
Mic recently (past couple weeks or so) did a video on this topic and I don't remember if it referenced Vegan Gains. Have you already seen that one? I'll see if I can find the video title.
The videos I was thinking of are: A Vegan Diet Doesn't Reverse Heart Disease After All?
Also: The Great Heart Disease Debate is Cancelled | My New Take...
RemarkableSean yeah it was VG live debate one and the 39min video he did that plant based diet does not reverse of heart disease.
It’s just weird to me bc VG was saying this also right? And plus I’ve done nutrition in plant based diet and saw all the explanation and studies that it does. So a bit confused what to think.
@@WhiteDraqon if you're hoping to learn more for your own purposes, I'd have to highly recommend reading Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Esselstyn as well as Whole by Colin Campbell.
The more time I spend in the nitty gritty with research, scientific studies, and books/papers from doctors and scientists who've dedicated their lives to a subject, the more I realize that many UA-camrs suffer from the short-sightedness that plagues self-described "hackers" who seem to think they can shortcut their way to solutions and make firm conclusions from murky and possibly conflicting data.
Esselstyn's book obviously deals with heart disease and what it really means for humans in a very direct and practical sense. There seems to be a semantic argument going on over the word "reversal" and Esselstyn needs not waste any time with semantics when he's saving and improving lives.
Whole by Campbell is so enlightening - it goes in depth on the calculation errors that can arise from relying too heavily on a microscopic view of data while throwing out a wholistic view for concern that only apples-to-apples numbers are useful. It's among my very favorite books.
It's too bad the debate got cancelled, I think there's enough maturity in heart health to make it a good time for newer doctors and scientists to be challenging Esselstyn's work. I think that would spark the kind of interest that could really benefit the medical and nutrition fields.
None of this is to say anything objectionable about the individuals I disagree with. I think they're all pretty great (except Chris Kresser, I think he's really harmful) and from my biased perspective, I think they have a little learning to go - much like myself!
It’s one thing to let the planet go to hell because we don’t know how to produce viable alternative energy, but to destroy the world because we want our barbecue?! I mean I’d laugh my ass off if it weren’t so absurdly tragic.
Destroy it with pesticides and monocrops instead. ua-cam.com/video/ovGHKr-NoqQ/v-deo.html
Sustainability experts are so cool!
The bay i grew up in on an island in greece is now almost fishless from the industrial fishing outside of the bay and the local fisherman within the bay, who still cant seem to grasp their responsibility for this tragedy..and none of those fisherman by the way needed the fish .. i know most of them personally. As a child i snorkelled there in wonder.. now its just an underwater desert. The same is true for the bays i swim in indonesia.
#TeamMic I hate how you've been treated lately buddy, so even though I have nothing to say on the environment, I want you to know that you have my support. So here's a comment for the algorithm:)
great research and video as always. leaving this for the algorythm aaaaaaaaand mic :)
Loved this video!!!
Thanks Mic!
Nice video. It feels a bit like the book from alan weismann the world without us projecting into the future, but just with people and actually caring and trying to change for the better. Will be though to get there probably impossible but we will see how close se get in a few decades.
This is a cool remake Mic.