As a philosophy purely for oneself, it's immaculate. As soon as it's prescribed as a cure for the ills of the planet, it just isn't. It's too black and white, and some of it is plain wrong. There are hundreds of millions of people on this planet who subsist because the only possible choice for them is animal husbandry. They may live on marginal land or they may need the animal dung to fertilise whatever land they have for crops. Millions of farmers in the third world can't remotely afford to buy artificial fertilisers or hope to improve their soil in any other way. There is a conversation to be had about the ways we use our agricultural land and about how we reduce meat consumption. But veganism is a matter for you as a private individual only, not a solution for the planet.


And I have an omnivore gut. Awkward, that one!