There is occasionally talk of soya being the main reason for deforestation. In places like Brazil, the rainforest is being cleared, often to grow soya. Vegans eat soya, so vegans must be bad for the environment yeah? It's a flawed argument but here are some stats to back it up, a thing that lets you compare environmental impact of various food types1. You can see here the equivalent weight of steak has approximately 130 times the environmental impact of a vegeburger. The rainforest is being cleared for soya, but it's because soya is needed to feed the animals that provide the beef. If we just eat the soya, we need 130 times less of it. We could feed 130 times the people for the same are of land. We need an area of land 130 times smaller to feed the same number of people. Something like that. I am great and you are destroying the planet.
Speaking of weight, mine was looking good post holiday, but we had a takeaway last night when we got in, and now I'm about a kilogram heavier than I was. I'm not sure our scales are reporting my weight properly on the health stats, I think it lost its connection to the internet, so take a look at that. One for my todo list...
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