You can be a vegan but make very sugary and unhealthy snacks. You could then consume that and eat more calories than you burn in a day, and over time you would become overweight.
This means it is possible to be an overweight vegan, and as you mention this is also possible with the processed vegan foods that have become available that make it easier to consume more calories than you burn in a day.
“We need more research to find less painful ways to kill shellfish,” Dr. Sneddon urges.
It’s sad that this is the takeaway and not “let’s not eat these creatures that experience stress and pain”
Yeah i only see 2 paragraphs but it is listed as an 8 minute read/listen. Archive.ph also doesn’t show full article
I think the crux of it is making people care though. If people don’t care about animal well-being enough to become vegan, what is going to make them care about the environment enough to become vegan? The environmental crisis is going to have to get a lot worse before people even consider giving up their precious meat
Conveniently ignores that cage-free isn’t all that better though. And in some aspects worse, since they cut off tips of their breaks, and cage free has a higher mortality rate than caged chickens.
Neat. It’ll be interesting to see the data they publish in 6 months and how much better the efficiency can be with two functional sails.
Thank you for all that you do!