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Suicidesoldier#1
You miss out on some essential amino acids and vitamins even with the best vegetarian diets, so, you have to at some point get these vitamins and nutrients.
No, you don't. You miss out on some amino acids if you're a vegan, but they are not essential amino acids, and they are present in eggs and dairy.
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Either that means copious amounts of plants to concentrate these materials or getting them from animals.
There are these things you can buy called "multivitamins", some sciency lab coat-wearing nerds came up with the crazy idea of putting nutrient supplements in a pill. You can eat enough plants to get the carbs, fat, and protein you need, along with a good balance of nutrients, and then take a pill to make sure you're not going to have a deficiency.
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If we could truly synthetically create everything we needed why eat plants at all?
If we could synthetically create everything why eat anything? If we could upload our brains to computer storage we could just consume electricity generated from sunlight.
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We're just not there yet in terms of technology.
Right, we're not. We're also at the point where our population and their meat-based diets are outside of the biophysical limits of our planet, so why are you still eating meat?
The only valid reason for eating meat is "I don't care about the consequences of eating meat, and eating tasty food is more important to me than others' lives."
Our planet could support WAY more food than it is now. Since ammonium nitrate is practically free and any land could potentially be turned into farmland, with 25% of arable land still unused, and rampant inefficiencies present across the farming industry, the concept we can't sustain it when we're presently at a surplus, so much so we're turning it into ethanol since gasoline seems to be more important than food, your information is basically coming from nowhere. Hell, there's all kinds of things we could do, like aquaponics gardening, that's way more efficient.
Again, multi vitamins take a source. It's not like you can make vitamins out of thin air. Usually, it's made from concentrated kale. When you grow 50 times the kale you need to survive and condense it down into a vitamin you essentially waste just as much if not more energy than just eating meat.
Look, I don't want to get off on the wrong foot here. In my mind we both have the same goals.
The difference is you are basing your assumptions off of what we are doing right now in general, when there is a better way. In my mind, there's not only a solution, but a way for surplus. And mostly, I'm right.