This article is so full of inaccuracies, false arguments & contradictions, that it would take me hours to debunk them all. Unfortunately people read stuff like this & believe it, so I'll fact check one issue: 1/cont...
#vegan #plantbased #plantbasedfood https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/18208006.column---enough-enough-veganism/?ref=twtrec

He says that vegetables, fruit, nuts, cereals can be grown & produced here in the UK, & also that "vegan products often manufactured in factories or shipped half away around the world to satisfy the needs of your local vegan." 2/cont

It's true that a wide variety of vegetables, fruit, nuts, cereals can be grown and produced here in the UK. I would also add the fact that legumes, seeds & herbs can also be grown in the UK. These are all the plant groups a vegan needs to have a healthy diet. 3/cont...

Therefore, UK farming & food production is able to supply all the foods necessary for a UK vegan to be healthy. If all animal agricultural land is given over to plant-based ag/food production, the UK could be food self-sufficient. 4/cont...

The reason why some vegan products are shipped from abroad is because we currently live in a globalised food system. Isn't it interesting that he fails to mention all the meat/dairy/eggs/fish/seafood the UK imports, & animal feeds that are imported 5/cont...

So, vegans do not need to rely on food produced abroad, vegans simply buy it because it's available. Every time I talk to non-vegans about this, they always bring up bananas & avocados. Okay, vegans can live healthily without bananas or avocados; if we, in the UK, choose 6/cont

to keep consuming banana & avocados, then we need to either find environmentally sensitive ways of growing them in the UK, or find ways of globally growing & shipping them that doesn't contribute to #ClimateCrisis #ecosystem destruction & species #extinction 7/cont...

This is true whether we're eating a vegan or omnivorous diet.
So, I've debunked just one of the misleading and contradictory arguments from this article. I don't have time to do more, as I'm now going to do some gardening to support wildlife and my local ecosystem. 8/cont...

If you happen across this thread, please feel free to correct another of the author's false arguments against #plantbased & #vegan diets. It's only a short read, and after you've stopped you might like to add your thoughts. Have a great day everyone