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You may find it interesting to know that the majority of the world's soy production is used to feed livestock, not people. Due to the sheer inefficiency of feeding food to an animal to later eat the animal (energy is always lost as you ascend trophic levels), it would at the very least significantly reduce deforestation if we switch from animal based products to plant based ones.

Why do you hate air quality? Do you see how pointless that strawman is?

I guess he's unfortunately not going to answer your question, but as someone who transitioned from vegetarian to vegan, I can honestly say it just wasn't as big of an effort as I thought it would be. There's a lot of plant-based alternatives to each of those things.

-Milk: You've got tons of options, notably soy, almond, coconut, and also more health-foody ones like hemp milk (no idea how they make that).

-Eggs: As far as baking goes there's plenty of egg replacers on the market that work the exact same way in a chemical sense. Besides that, eggs aren't in as many things as you probably think they are. Most kinds of bread are vegan, for example.

-Cheese, ice cream, other dairy: Vegan cheese still isn't that great, honestly, but it's getting better all the time. I'd recommend Daiya, but get the block kind and not the shredded kind because they have different formulas and the block tastes better. Ice cream and other dairy products are pretty easy, since pretty much anything you can do with a dairy milk you can also do with the milk alternatives that I've mentioned.

Beyond all the nitty-gritty details, just try it. Try being vegan for like a week. It does take some self-control initially, but once you get past the point of really thinking of animal products as food, you don't feel like you're missing out at all. I initially hadn't even planned to go vegan when I did. I just said let me try it for one day. Then two days. Then a week. Then I figured if I could do it for a week I could do it indefinitely. So I have.

Oh one other thing. For restaurants or finding places with vegan options while travelling, happycow.net is a really helpful tool.

So what solution do you propose in place of the EPA? That we just do nothing at all? Let the free market sort it out even though it has no incentive to do so? It's easy to criticize without providing any alternative solution. But it's also meaningless.

So how does being honest about your motive keep you from exercising freedom of speech or the press? Just because you couldn't disguise the message as something else doesn't mean rights are being infringed upon.