@thegirl20 welcome 😀

@BerttheKitten greetings

@Fauvescraper welcome 😀

@2of4mjm welcome

@SeedofKalahari in sure you'll be ok👍

@BlueFootedBooby btw, due to the aforementioned reasons, I will not be replying to further comments. I can see you don't wish to discuss things. Have a great day, also my apologies if you are upset, I had no intention of causing you the distress that you displayed.

@BlueFootedBooby I "felt it necessary to reply to" your post because I felt it was important to input the more open minded viewpoint of reducing meat consumption or keeping it to ovo/lactose vegetarianism is an more sustainable option. I'm going to go ahead and end this discussion as A) apparently are starting to become upset, and this was meant to be a discussion and B) have still failed to bring any evidence to support your opinion.

@BlueFootedBooby yes, I was referring to the full text of it, rather than the article itself.
Forgive me, I had assumed that you provided it as means of proof for your opinion.
As for feeding the world, that's not part of this. I was referring to the study suggesting that food excess that is produced can be traded/sold/given to others. I have yet to see a study providing for a global switch towards veganism being more beneficial than a "flexitarian" type diet that is heavy in vegetables

@BlueFootedBooby additionally, the base assumption was that the model was in a bubble. US land used to feed American citizens exclusively. At the end they conclude that excess food product could be exported, but this does not address the looming issue of exports we use animal byproducts in. This model introduced excludes any consideration for economy and is meant to be proof of the benefits of reduced meat consumption as a standalone issue

@BlueFootedBooby allow me to start out by stating that I agree with reducing meat consumption. What we do now as a country is unsustainable.
As for the link provided: it undercuts your point. "we demonstrate that under a range of land use conditions, diets with low to modest amounts of meat outperform a vegan diet, and vegetarian diets including dairy products performed best overall." This study, you provided, shows lacto and ovovegatarian diets performed almost identically under most cases

@BlueFootedBooby https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/going-vegan-isnt-actually-th/

@BlueFootedBooby veganism is an unsustainable food model

@awessendorf you and me both

@john_b lmao that's ok then. I've been there, mysterious vanishing nail

@john_b that's an awful feeling, the razor cutting through a nail. Shudder worthy

@ChippySuave
I would love to go to the cashiers, but all evidence points towards them being laid off anyways. I see the personal shoppers getting all of the hours. Online convenience has doomed cashiers

@sfleetucker @Expecting_Words we can only pray it's Inuyasha

@TetsuKaba lol, exactly what we needed...

@Xponent Shelley was 21. Also, Frankenstein is complex. It is equally, if not more so, gothic horror. I can only imagine the slight is unintentionally given, as Wells is used as a purely science fiction author. As for science fiction elements... if we count elements, there are many debatable sources of proto science fiction. Many of them predate Shelley by years, decades, and centuries. I do love Shelley though