Would a vegan food system be more ethical? Darryl Dempsey would say yes, a vegan food would indeed be more ethical than the current one. He believes that using animals especially sentient animals for food is unethical and unnecessary. In this video he and I have a friendly debate where I argue that the concept of a vegan food system is logically incoherent and that one can make ethical food choices that include eating animals.

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Darryl's Sources:
Sentientism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentioc...

Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b0b...

U.S. Tree Planting for Carbon Sequestration – Congressional research service
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R40562.pdf

Livestock's long shadow – Food and agriculture organization of the United Nations.
http://www.fao.org/3/a0701e/a0701e00.htm

Moving beyond calories and protein: Micronutrient assessment of UK diets and land use
https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/pub...
https://public.flourish.studio/visual... Graph visualising raw data

Carrying capacity of U.S. agricultural land: Ten diet scenarios
https://online.ucpress.edu/elementa/a...

USDA- Major Uses of Land in the United States, 2012
https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publ...

CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Country Profiles
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-ot...

Neanderthals carb loaded, helping grow their big brains
https://www.science.org/news/2021/05/...

Sameer's sources:
Neanderthals ate "an unreasonably huge amount of meat”: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/s...

Humans were hyper-carnivores: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...

200,000 ducks killed for rice in NSW: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/2...

Can Single Cells learn? https://www.the-scientist.com/feature...

Corporate consolidation in the food industry: https://theconversation.com/corporate...

Ruminant evolution and perspectives: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Problems with India's beef ban: https://www.ft.com/content/63522f50-c...

TIME STAMPS
00:00 - Why or why not vegan?
01:43 - Intro
03:26 - Darryl's background
05:52 - Darryl's vegan journey
06:32 - Sentienism and other ethical concerns
16:35 - Problems with the agricultural model
19:12 - Decolonized agriculture
24:56 - Land and harm reduction
38:16 - Soil, food systems, and ruminants
49:23 - Rewilding and human evolution
58:31 - Plant agriculture v decolonization
1:03:34 - Science in the lab and the field
1:07:10 - Balance