robzvegan

vegan flaneur, photographer
film producer
💀 vegan since 1980
physics graduate coffee addict
ahumanist rewild & scale down

[robzvegan @robzvegan]

@herbivore_club That cows are often pregnant when slaughtered (so farmer gets more money) and the unborn calf suffocates in their dying mother's womb, then they are ripped from her body and blood from their heart extracted with a syringe for fetal bovine serum, a cell culture

[robzvegan @robzvegan]

@LizWebsterLD @CatGeorge1 @GMB @BritishSave The opposite is true. Eating animals is the LEAST efficient way to get protein. Conversion rate for beef is 10%, ie 90% of the inputs are wasted. Plant amino acids are also better for us than animal protein. We should grow food not feed. We then only need 45% of current farm land

[robzvegan @robzvegan]

@LizWebsterLD @CatGeorge1 @GMB @BritishSave More evidence here: https://t.co/zxdV3uacK4

[robzvegan @robzvegan]

@LizWebsterLD @CatGeorge1 @GMB @BritishSave [Country File: Can the UK feed itself after Brexit? 05/Jan/2018]“Yes, but it depends on what we eat,” says Prof Tim Lang. “We’ll have to cut eating meat down to once a week. We have to rebuild our horticulture ... There has to be a shift in how we grow our food.”

[robzvegan @robzvegan]

@LizWebsterLD @CatGeorge1 @GMB @BritishSave The UK could be self-sufficient in food if we switched to a plant based diet

[robzvegan @robzvegan]

@LizWebsterLD @CatGeorge1 @GMB @BritishSave Well on that we can agree. For poorer communities around the world a contributing factor in their poverty (and hunger) is land grabbing, and latterly water grabbing, by "big meat" because meat production is so inherently inefficient it needs to use more land that it has locally

[robzvegan @robzvegan]

@LizWebsterLD @CatGeorge1 @GMB @BritishSave It's got over 15 pages of references from peer-reviewed publications. Are you anti-science?

[robzvegan @robzvegan]

@LizWebsterLD @CatGeorge1 @GMB @BritishSave "A report from the World Wildlife Fund revealed that 60 per cent of global biodiversity loss is down to meat consumption, and this is only projected to worsen."
https://t.co/LgxeK1Wnyv

[robzvegan @robzvegan]

@LizWebsterLD @CatGeorge1 @GMB @BritishSave https://t.co/N0efjGPbAr

[robzvegan @robzvegan]

@LizWebsterLD @CatGeorge1 @GMB @BritishSave But the meat and dairy industry is already responsible for the extinction of many species of wild animals and plants and loss of habitat. Losing a few species of animals bred for human-centric economic traits is worth it to protect what wildlife we have left

[robzvegan @robzvegan]

@LizWebsterLD @GMB @BritishSave Not following science (2 of 2): "vast majority of GHGs associated with food comes from production ( average 83%), not from transport (11%). Plant-based food produces vastly less GHG emissions in production than animal-based food, such as meat and dairy." https://t.co/j8CTTa2Ozs

[robzvegan @robzvegan]

@LizWebsterLD @GMB @BritishSave You're not following the science (1 of 2)“They concluded that even the highest-impact vegetable, still emits less than the lowest-impact animal protein.” https://t.co/lca6AE8p5X

[robzvegan @robzvegan]

@wevegan Hey! I'm 52, vegan since 1980 (aged 12) ;)

[robzvegan @robzvegan]

@vegnetworkshop Hey! I went vegan in 1980 aged 12 :)