This is awesome. Thank you so much. As a long-term vegan and activist, (haven't eaten meat in over 30 years), this is a great way to educate the public. This needs to be shared far and wide.
Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed it 😃 The next 5 videos and the book (linked in description) will go into more depth on how to educate the public. Thanks so much for being vegan and meat free for 30 years! You've helped get us to this point! 🌱
@@Ric.A.Photography That's wonderful! Thank you! We really go into so much more depth on the strategy and research in the book. I'm excited for you to read it 😃
Thanks for the incredible team at Veganography for putting this together -- be sure to check out some of their other work on Instagram! Stay tuned for the next videos in the series!
So glad you enjoyed it!! We'll be releasing one video every week for the next six weeks! We go into much more depth on everything in the book (linked in the description), as well. Thanks so much for your support 💚
I am with you 100% but I have recently seen backwards steps in the UK in terms of manufacturers scaling back their plant based meat alternatives and some vegan "influencers" going back to meat. Should we be worried? Is this happening elsewhere in the world?
Yes, great question! It might seem like things are moving backwards based on influencers and UK manufacturers, but the consumer market is moving in the right direction. RethinkX, an independent think tank that analyzes and forecasts the scope, speed, and scale of technology-driven disruption and its implications across society, published a report in 2019 that predicts the cattle farming industry will be “all but bankrupt” by 2030. They predict that all other animal agriculture industries will follow suit shortly thereafter. This is due primarily to consumer choices and technological innovation. The report predicts that precision fermentation will be 5x cheaper than animal protein by 2030 and 10x cheaper by 2035, before "ultimately approaching the cost of sugar." Eventually, companies will voluntarily abandon producing animal products because technological innovation will have made them economically obsolete. Its a process, but technological innovation is really driving a revolution in the supply chain.
I AM BIG BIRACIAL MY MOM LOVE HER. WHY DO I NOT LIKE YOU USING THE WORD WHITE ELITE??? I AM NOT NOT ARGUING. ( AND I AM NOT YELLING I HAVE M.S. AND IT GAVE ME OPTIC NEURITIS...CAN'T SEE WELL SO CAPITALS IT IS.) BUT COULD WE USE DIFFERENT WORDS. PLEASE LOVE PEACE KATHLEEN
We completely agree with you that racism is abhorrent! That was simply the language used in the study about apartheid-era South Africa, so we wanted to be accurate with our portrayal of the information in the study.
That's a good idea actually!! I haven't seen that out there yet. Vegan foods often do a clever misspelling of a common nonvegan food for interesting branding. I haven't seen this one!!
Good question! The answer is a bit complicated. Vegan food is cruelty free in that no animals were EXPLOITED to produce it. Although vegan food itself does not contain products derived from animals (no animals were intentionally killed to produce vegan food), there are a small amount of deaths that occur from crop cultivation. We cover this topic in detail in episode 4 of this series, which premieres on January 11th. The bottom line: vegan foods reduce death by 99.76% when compared to animal agriculture, and vegan foods do not require the forced confinement, mutilation, and torture of sentient beings. Veganism isn't perfect, but perfection is not our goal. Our goal is to reduce death and suffering as much as we possibly can.
@@veganography Bromethalin Strychnine Arsenic Cholecalciferol Anticoagulant rodenticide Barium carbonate Fluoroacetamide Red squill Warfarin Yellow phosphorus RHDV2 virus mutation spread by government wildlife management agencies to control wild populations of rabbits
@@veganography so you buy your food from some of the veganic farming communities ( 25) in the United States. They also ship directly to your door, with online ordering
We could literally end world hunger by ending animal agriculture. Animal agriculture is incredibly inefficient. It consumes far more calories than it produces. On average, it requires 16 calories of plant input to produce 1 calorie of meat output. Which makes sense, because when an animal is consuming calories, all of those calories aren’t converted into edible animal products. Most of the calories are converted into inedible tissues such as bones, cartilage, feathers, etc. In fact, meat has an average energy efficiency of only 7%, meaning that only 7% of calories consumed by the animal are converted into animal products consumed by humans. On average, 93% of input calories are completely wasted. In order to produce meat, we have to grow a massive amount of feed crops. Humanity currently grows enough plants to feed 10 billion people, but we feed nearly 40% of those crops to animals exploited in animal agriculture. According to the FAO, as many as 783 million people experienced food insecurity in 2022, while the population of humans was around 8 billion people. This means that we could effectively end world hunger almost three times over just by feeding people the plants that we already grow. Some people may counteract this by saying that all parts of the plant aren’t edible, and the animals can consume parts of the plants that humans can’t. This may be true of the monoculture feed crops (primarily wheat, corn, and soy) fed to animals that utilize 80% of all agricultural land. But if we were to use that land to cultivate a variety of plants, that land would yield even more nutritionally dense food for human consumption. The point is, animal agriculture is the biggest obstacle to solving world hunger for humans, because it consumes many more calories than it produces. We currently have the capability to feed every single human on earth, we are just wasting those calories by feeding them to suffering animals exploited in animal agriculture. We could end world hunger by ending animal agriculture. I'm going to link sources for everything in an additional comment. Sometimes RU-vid doesn't let you link to outside websites in comments or "holds them for review." So if the sources don't show up, it's because RU-vid is holding them for review or not letting them be posted.
The intro is perfect… shows livestock on rocky , sloping terrain that is absolutely not suitable for growing vegetables, fruits or grains… it’s called marginal land… 60% of farmable land is only suitable for growing native drought tolerant plants and grass
All sources will be included in a subsequent comment. But RU-vid sometimes doesn't post comments that have links because it doesn't want people leaving the platform. I attempted to respond to this comment with links and RU-vid didn't post the comment because I linked outside of RU-vid. So the following assertions are supported by peer reviewed scientific data, and hopefully RU-vid will allow the comment with linked sources to be posted. 80% of global agricultural land is used by animal agriculture. 59% of ice free land is used by animal agriculture (FAO) 76% of global agricultural land use would be reduced by a global shift to a plant based diet (Oxford) It requires 100 times more land to produce a gram of protein from beef or lamb than from tofu or peas. A nation wide (US) shift to pasture raised meat could only support 27% of the current meat consumption.
Please not before 2050. By then, I'll very likely be sleeping in my underground tiny house. With neither children, nieces nor nephews, I'm unconcerned about the world's descent into chaos!
80% of people also fail their New Year's Resolution to exercise. That doesn't mean that they failed due to exercise being "extremely unhealthy". That means they failed because they didn't have the proper systems in place to create a long lasting habit that then becomes a part of their lifestyle.
@@MrPlantMan6000 WTF does a new year resolution have to do with anything i said? This is about a vegan world and not a new years resolution world. ROTF. 8 out of 10 vegans quit mainly mainly die to health issues. My simple question was how can these silly ppl expect a vegan world, when the mass majority of vegans cant even stay vegan because they get stick.
@@GarudaLegends It actually has a very direct parallel that highlights the logical flaw of that premise. @veganography asked you a simple question as well that you ignored. So once you answer that one, I can give you a better answer to yours if you'd like more clarification.
We go into much more detail on the below topics in our book, preorder link in the description. The goal of veganism is not to force every single person on the planet intentionally transition to a vegan diet. The goal of the vegan movement is to mobilize enough of the population that the consumer market shifts away from animal products and towards vegan products, so that animals are voluntarily removed from the supply chain by the companies themselves. Research by Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard, demonstrates that nonviolent social justice movements have always succeeded in creating change when they actively mobilized at least 3.5% of the population. As of the end of 2023, approximately 1.1% of the world’s population is currently vegan. So we need to at least triple the amount of vegans in the world to reach this critical threshold. 3.5% of the population may seem low. But remember, change is inevitable when 3.5% of the population is ACTIVELY MOBILIZED. When 3.5% of the population is participating in protests, disruptions, lobbying, consumer choices, etc. that means that a much greater proportion of the population tacitly supports the movement. The 3.5% Rule is not only a measure of the number of people directly involved in activism, but it is a reflection of public opinion. Tacit supporters aren't necessarily vegan, but they won’t resist when mass mobilization results in systemic change. They’ll simply adjust to the new normal. And this mass mobilization culminates in transforming dominant institutions. This takes the form of changing or ending practices through legislative, judicial, or economic means. Legislative and judicial action results in changing laws; for instance, outlawing sale of meat that came from gestation crates (California’s Prop 12 upheld by the US Supreme Court), animal welfare protections (US Animal Welfare Act of 1966). Economic transformation means that certain practices or products are VOLUNTARILY abandoned by the industry because they’re no longer profitable or popular. A great example of economic transformation is Apple’s September 2023 announcement that they will no longer use leather in any of their products due to its high carbon footprint. Apple voluntarily abandoned leather to stay relevant with a public that demands sustainability. It’s important to note that economic transformation is generally a faster pathway than the legislative or judicial pathways. First of all, legislation usually follows public opinion, it doesn’t usually preempt public opinion. By definition, legislators are representatives of the people, they won’t propose legislation to which the people are opposed. Public support must be in place before legislation is created. And the judicial pathway is even slower than the legislative pathway because it requires that legislation is proposed, written, revised, passed through the legislative body, signed by the executive body, challenged in state court, and forwarded on to the Supreme Court (at least in the US). Economic transformation is much more fluid because it’s simply a matter of WHAT PEOPLE BUY. Legislation and judicial action are also limited to individual countries or coalitions like the EU. Economic transformations, however, are global. And this economic transformation is already underway. RethinkX, an independent think tank that analyzes and forecasts the scope, speed, and scale of technology-driven disruption and its implications across society, published a report in 2019 that predicts the cattle farming industry will be “all but bankrupt” by 2030. They predict that all other animal agriculture industries will follow suit shortly thereafter. This is due primarily to consumer choices and technological innovation. The report predicts that precision fermentation will be 5x cheaper than animal protein by 2030 and 10x cheaper by 2035, before "ultimately approaching the cost of sugar." Eventually, companies will voluntarily abandon producing animal products because technological innovation will have made them economically obsolete. Essentially, it's all about the money. And precision fermentation and "vegan" products will just be cheaper to produce than maintaining the status quo. That's how a vegan world will come to fruition.
Most vegans do ironically still support the existence of animal cruelty and animal exploitation. I really wonder if any of these episodes will explain that an actual vegan world should be a lot more inconvenient. A vegan world shouldn't include any harmful technologies and harmful industries.
During every stage in history that involved major innovations, those innovations were initially seen as inconvenient and foolish as well. Systems take time to adapt and they adapt at their own pace.
Can you be more specific about vegans support animal cruelty and animal exploitation? What exactly are you referring to? I agree with you that an ideal world wouldn't exploit anyone - animal or human! But the goal of veganism isn't PERFECTION. That's unrealistic. The goal of veganism is to minimize harm and maximize good. In an industrial world, it's impossible to completely avoid death and suffering. But veganism reduces death and suffering as much as possible. Episode 4 will address the common "crop deaths" argument.
@@veganography Veganism is pointless when a certain amount of harm is still justified to exist, only because it isn't convenient enough for you to prevent harm.
@@TheFettuck That's called an Appeal to Futility: "X is the ideal perfect goal; there is no possible perfect solution Y that completely achieves X; therefore X is not worth attempting." If that mindset was prevalent during every social justice movement, no progress would ever be made unfortunately.
