> i wonder what would happen if the whole world went vegan from tomorrow

massive deforestation to culture soy

And every human farting at the same time would make the cows look like saints.

There's already massive deforestation to grow soy...to feed cows. Eating soy directly is more efficient, so there would be less deforestation.

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pvaldes 2 days ago | parent [-]

Is tiresome explaining this again and again to people that don't want to understand. Not. This plan will never work. Is a dead end.

Seriously. Anybody repeating this ideas again, should prove that they tried to read a handbook about ecology at least. Ecology is a science. This has been researched since the 70's.

Because humans eat a lot of ocean products that fall into omnivore diet and would need to be replaced by soy.

Because many arid places where you can have cattle are not suitable to culture soy, so if you remove cattle you are changing cattle by nothing and reducing the amount of feed produced, so we would need to compensate it killing some humans (not desirable) or increasing the pressure of agriculture over the natural areas somewhere.

Because vegetables are not enough in very cold places. You really need to eat animal fat there. Lots of it.

neither deserts or oceans or cold mountains or roads or cities are suitable to culture soy, the only remaining suitable places are the forests.

A meadow with cattle were it was a rainforest is a tragedy, but replacing the meadow with a monoculture of soy is making the problem much, much worse. The meadow is an ecosystem at least. The soy field is a dead zone.

	▲	triceratops 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Is tiresome explaining this again and again to people that don't want to understand I feel the same way. > Because humans eat a lot of ocean products that fall into omnivore diet and would need to be replaced by soy. How much seafood? How much soy? > Because many arid places where you can have cattle are not suitable to culture soy What percent of all cattle is that? What if only free-range cattle-rearing in already-existing pastureland were allowed to continue, but feedlots and grain-fed cattle were phased out? > Because vegetables are not enough in very cold places. You really need to eat animal fat there. Lots of it. Sure. We're basically talking about Siberia, Greenland, northern Finland/Sweden/Norway, and northern Alaska and Canada. Not very many people. They could continue to eat animal fats and it wouldn't make much difference. > replacing the meadow with a monoculture of soy Soy isn't the only bean. There are literally dozens of types of beans. I don't think you realize: 1. How much soy and corn are grown to feed animals 2. How inefficient that is compared to feeding soy and corn to humans