Taylor Sheridan and Joe Rogan criticized the ethical basis of veganism because the process of growing vegetables kills farm more animals.
For example, Sheridan notes how the average central California organic avocado farm kills 19,000 ground squirrels per year, not to mention the billions of bees and other insects.
Their discussion highlighted the potential financial growth of the plant-based foods market and concludes with a critique of vegans’ moral stance.
Sheridan said, “I think one of the most absurd positions anyone can take is they’re a vegan for an ethical reason.” (Trending: Melania Trump Breaks Silence On Tragic Family Death)
“It’s preposterous. You can do it for a medical reason, even though I don’t know what that reason would be — maybe you can’t process meat and can’t process proteins like that. But to do it for an ethical reason is absurd,” he continued.
“And the reason I say that is I have plowed a field. It is carnage. It is 12 feet of carnage. And every single plant that you eat is going to be tilled into the ground at some capacity. So you’re gonna kill everything … People have to understand, you have to take ownership,” explained Sheridan.
Rogan said responded, “Ted Nugent said this on this podcast…he said, if you want to kill the most things, become a vegan.”
“If you’re thinking about individual life. If you don’t think that one life equals one life, if you think that small things aren’t as valuable as large things, that’s a totally different discussion, and that’s a weird discussion,” he continued.
“But if you think that all life is sacred, well, what about the life of ground-nesting birds, fawns, what about the lives of rodents, insects — all those things are getting demolished,” Rogan added.
Sheridan previously scripted a scene where Kevin Costner’s character says, “I guess the only real question is: How cute does an animal have to be before you care if it dies to feed you?”
“If you look anywhere in the ecosystem, take man out of it…Virtually everything is living at the expense of another organism, to the degree that if a certain weed grows up over the grass, it’s killing the grass,” Sheridan said.
“This little sapling grows up over the grass, it’s killing the grass. If the grass grows up before the weeds, it kills the weeds… everything is in competition with everything else. There is not a vegan fish, there’s not a vegetarian fish,” Sheridan continued.
“Every single fish, every frog, they’re eating another organism to survive — every one of them,” emphasized the TV producer.
According to a 2021 Bloomberg Intelligence report, “The plant-based foods market could make up to 7.7% of the global protein market by 2030, with a value of over $162 billion, up from $29.4 billion in 2020.”
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