Vegan Forum

I apologize for not having posted over the last month -- I really hope that this thread can reinvigorate. Big Becka: yes, I own and operate my own ranch. It's more for our own sustenance than it is an actual enterprise. We raise what are called F1 Wagyu, which is a Wagyu sire crossed with a cow of a...

No, I think that your calculations are quite good. And thank you for correcting me about the lentils: I was indeed calculating boiled, unsalted lentils, and you are quite right that the raw ones would have far more energy per kg. I believed that meat production on my model was comparable to producti...

Hey Andy, Thanks so much for the warm welcome, and I very much like your medicine analogy. I may have to use that at some point. And I've never heard of the movie "Home" before you mentioned it -- I'll have to get a copy. Your numbers aren't far off, actually. Here at our ranch [we just ra...

I am a philosopher by trade, and I can't help but notice a couple of arguments here that are wildly pervasive when these kinds of questions come up, but which I don't believe are sound. First, you made that argument that there is a net energy loss when animals are fed plant material. So the argument...

I am a philosopher by trade. In the philosophical community, Peter Singer is by far the best known and most vocal proponent of vegetarianism. He is an Australian, but many Americans will have heard his name from his books and his sometime position at Princeton. If you read his articles, be forewarne...