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Vegans: .. uh.. now what?
Vegans consume fewer plants than anyone else. It takes a LOT of plants to raise a cow, pig, or chicken. From an economic point of view, meat is a way of refining mountains of cheap, plentiful, safe plant products into a scarce, harmful and addictive luxury product. This comes up a lot, you'd be amazed how many plants rights activists your average vegan runs into.
I challenge you to make an appetizing meal out of the plants (and specific cultivars!) used as animal feed.
Step 1: feed them to a cow Step 2: you now have a fluffy pet cow Step 3: profit