Myth # 37 : " Veganism will cause a global recession ."
Myth # 37 : " Veganism will cause a global recession ."
Actually , the opposite is more probably true ... Lusk & Norwood performed an economic study in 2009 that showed that not only does a shift towards plant-based foods lower production prices and save consumers money ( thereby freeing up capital to be re-invested in local economies ), but that it is also much less costly for farmers to produce nutrients using plant-based sources .
Indeed , though it is true that every economic transition involves a measure of discomfort & adjustment , burgeoning vegan communities all over the world are showing that the more a neighborhood goes vegan , the more its members tend to invest in healthy food , the more they tend to support small locally-owned businesses , and the more they a enjoy a cleaner environment and greater economic abundance in general .
It is admittedly true that large-scale veganism would indeed be the death of quite a few monstrously large animal-agriculture-dependent corporations , and yet this is not at all a bad result , as these are the very businesses that are currently destroying our planet , our health and our quality of life anyway .
Current status of this Myth : Smashed Justification it provides for eating animals : NONE
“ If one person is unkind to an animals , it is considered to be cruelty , and yet where many people are unkind to animals , especially in the name of commerce , that cruelty is condoned and , especially where large sums of money are at stake , will even be vehemently defended to the last by otherwise caring & intelligent people .” ~ inspired by Ruth Harrison
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