How is it any people cannot put themselves in that place with imagining? Even animals could identify with what would not be desirable. Humans should have the sensibility to know they would not want what the animals being used are put through, we can likewise choose to not have anything to do with that, and we can already find out ourselves that there are ways to be very healthy this way without products from animals. And the same amount of use of resources for it and contribution to damage to environments with loss of species does not need to be continued then. https://healthyaging.emory.edu/could-eating-30-plants-a-week-be-the-answer-to-better-health/
We absolutely are not okay without eating animal products. I have just been diagnosed with a vitamin B12 deficiency and have learned this lesson personally. We are now capable of living without animal products but we are by no means healthy without them.
It requires some of the most ultra processed creations in existence to compensate for that nutrient to exist without it coming from an animal product
Please don’t spread pseudoscientific bullshit based on anecdotal evidence. Not only are humans “now” capable of living without animal products, but meta-analysis after meta-analysis (linked is just a sample) shows that humans are healthier for it.
The extent of that health benefit? That’s a grey area that can make for a rational discussion. That it’s blanket unhealthy? The exact opposite of what modern medical science says, and we don’t put up with it here – not for ethical reasons, because “plant-based dieting is healthy” isn’t a tenet of veganism, but because medical disinformation isn’t allowed on Lemmy.World (and shouldn’t be tolerated anywhere).