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[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No wonder the bull didn't carrot all.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 2 points 53 minutes ago

It's gonna be a beet down

[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 53 minutes ago
[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 12 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Taking things too seriously, don't most plants benefit from their fruit being eaten as part of their lifecycle?

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Taking things too seriously, fruits and vegetables are generally much smaller, and can not speak and hold a baseball bat.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Most fruits and vegetables are smaller, but not the ones running the fruits and vegetables mafia

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 53 minutes ago

In fact, only the strongest and most ruthless fruits and vegetables are selected to be enforcers.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 10 points 3 hours ago

fun fact, trains in the UK used to dump the sewage from the onboard toilets right on the tracks.

It wasn't uncommon to see tomato plants growing on/around the tracks.

This is because of the fresh tomatos used in sandwiches filtered through british bumholes

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

We don't eat the fruits of carrots and onions, though.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 10 points 5 hours ago

There's a soybean on the roof with a sniper rifle

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 27 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Except that you're eating way more plants if you eat animals than if you just eat plants, as animals eat lots of plants.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago

Depends on the animal. Home raised chicken, for instance, can almost live on human lefts.

Insects also eat things that humans really do not consume, for instance.

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

They don't really eat the same thing, do they?

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 6 points 4 hours ago

An average broiler chicken diet is composed of 42.8% corn and 26.4% soybeans for protein, and about 14% bakery meal. Source

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is that for each animal you eat, you save a lot of plants?

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

No, for each animal you eat you're eating lots of plants in a really inefficient - and needlessly cruel - way

[–] psud@aussie.zone -1 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

I cannot eat grass, ruminant animals can. How is it inefficient for me to eat the animal rather than the grass?

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 1 points 36 minutes ago

To add to idiomaddict's great points, the animals don't eat exclusively grass. In Australia (assuming based on your instance): "the latest estimate (2017-18) of annual feed use in Australia is 13.58 million tonnes" (SFMCA).

This includes "cereal grains, legume grains, vegetable protein meals, animal protein meals, cereal milling co-products, minerals and vitamins" as per that same source.

I often see people use the deforestation of the Amazon for soy crops as a sort of gotcha for vegans, even though most soybeans are grown for use as animal feed (in the Amazon, mainly cattle). Incidentally, cattle farms are also responsible for much more deforestation in the Amazon than soybeans, but I digress.

I'll also note that grass-fed beef has often been shown to be as bad (or sometimes worse) for the environment than feedlot beef. It also can't scale to meet current meat consumption.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago

Oats, barley, wheat, rye, rice and bamboo are all grasses humans can eat.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Because we use the land that could be used to grow enough food to feed many people to grow food for cows, which then feed fewer people. By buying into this system, you’re propagating inefficiency.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Right, we bulldoze forests to make fertile land available. I agree that's bad, I don't want celery from that land either

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

We’d need less land for crops generally if we were allotting it to human food instead of livestock feed.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Kurzgesagt explained it very well

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 42 points 8 hours ago

As a vegetarian I find this comic offensive. The last panel should be that dude viscously ripping apart the vegetable people with his teeth.

Just because I don't eat animals doesn't mean I won't body slam you if you're between me and a potato.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Veggie Tales has gone bad since the last time I watched it as a kid...

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

They tried to do a TMNT crossover episode and got PTSD from Krang

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)
[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Are any of those ingredients actually likely to be used in a veggie burger? I feel like I usually just see bean burgers, but I don't know much about veggie burger options

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 1 points 31 minutes ago

Tomatoes would be odd, I've never seen that. Onions, or at a minimum garlic power, should be in any burger recipe, IMO. Carrots would totally work for a veggie burger, I found this recipe that looks pretty tasty and uses both carrots and onions.

But disregarding all that; I very rarely eat burgers that don't have both onions and tomatoes as toppings :P

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Onions should be in everything savory with melded flavors.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Thats very fair actually. I guess carrots also make a good aromatic frankly

[–] pewpew@feddit.it 3 points 6 hours ago
[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

I could take them.

[–] Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

you (and the comic maker) should have called it vegan burger, since veggie normally means vegetarian.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 8 hours ago
[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I know someone who's going to have an issue with this meme......

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Me too, just waiting for her to appear here 😂