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I’m interested in how she quantifies human compassion and what that data actually looks like. It sounds nice in theory though! Also what does this say about every other animal that eats another? Perhaps they just haven’t developed their compassion fully. Sounds anthropocentric to me but okay.

Zooming around and naming a bunch of different plants says nothing about a person diet rooted in one place. Sure humans travel and do so widely. This doesn’t mean where you live is without limits. Especially if you’re living a primitive lifestyle. Sure maybe a part of it is overpopulation but again this is the world we live in right now. Even with a swift decline in humans we’d still be living in different terrain. Again when there were more abundant food sources there are examples of primitive people still eating a very varied diet.

No doubt the animals are also polluted. I don’t think people should be hunting animals in an urban setting. Unlike Ria who seems to think that plants growing in industrial waste is a great idea for people to transition from animal sources. I am fortunate to live in a place where there is for the most part lots of unindustrialized forested land. The people who have the deepest connection to nature I met who are the least sucked into the dominant industrial food system are the local hunters. For some the supermarket is too far away and the deer are abundant. I’ve also met many of these hunters who eat foraged plants, nuts and roots. Sure some of them suck but I have a ton of respect for what they’re doing.

I’m not singling out vegans but I’m not proclaiming any one diet is the way. If it seems impossible for every human what is your game plan? I also never said compassion doesn’t mean anything. I want to live my life causing a minimal amount of suffering. I recognize that I will fail if I hold myself to some pure ideal though. Being not vegan isn’t a slippery slope to cannibalism. You can look at the vast majority of people’s everywhere.