Veganism Is a Religion - Udo Pollmer

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[video] 0:00 The problem with the whole discussion about vegetarianism and especially veganism is that it is simply a considerable part of the claims in the matter are untrue and that in many cases the exact opposite of what is always claimed comes out. And we have tried to move a little bit to the right with the corresponding facts and I can only give you a small example. According to the World Food Organization, about 60% of the available agricultural land is only suitable for producing animal products, i.e. to keep animals. If we didn't use that, then we wouldn't have more to eat, but less. We would have to see what to do with the 60% of the population.

[video] 0:39 Today it has become a kind of identity, that is, young people try to individualize themselves a bit and take away from the rest of humanity, from the rest of their peers. And that's where nutrition comes in today. And then you have to be a vegetarian first. But that's already a matter of faith and not because you don't like meat. Then you become a vegan, and if that's not enough, you become a fruitarian. And the fruitarians then have an even higher class. These are then the light-eaters, who only live from the light. It seems almost spiritual, how people speak of faith or something. Of course, these are more religious associations, because they don't react to factual arguments, but they always come with the hint. that animals have to suffer. We have food chains on this earth. And that means that one creature devours the next. One lives on the other. This is a completely normal process.

[video] 1:37 And the so-called natural death, which is then presented as an ideal, is mostly more cruel in the wild. And often much, much more cruel than a murder at the slaughterhouse, which today, if it happens in a reasonable way, the animal doesn't get anything at all. There is no screaming and theater, as it is always told. Today, veganism and parts of vegetarianism are basically religious movements, similar to the Jehovah's Witnesses, and they basically have the same arguments and the same ideal images that they imagine, where the lion plays with the lamb. And the decisive point is actually that one does not go into factual arguments at all, but constantly puts religious or so-called moral aspects in the foreground. One of the myths is that if humans were full, we would eat vegan. That is of course the real nonsense, because animals usually eat what humans cannot digest.

[video] 2:34 Now, of course, they are used here, for God's sake, the animals get grain. Allegedly 10 kg of grain for 1 kg of meat. That is of course the real nonsense. What they get is feed grain and that is of course much less. That is usually a maximum of a kilo or something. Many animals don't get any grain at all. One of them is feed grain, feed barley. They can't eat it, they can't even brew beer out of it. It's something completely different than bread grain. And you build up this food grain to be able to harvest more bread grain. That's because you can't grow a fruit together. You can't grow bread grain on bread grain, then it breaks. So you need an intermediate fruit. And the most protein-rich intermediate fruit we have is the food seed. And that ensures that certain wheat diseases, the wheat nematodes, are pushed back. And that's how next year more bread grain and on the other side you have more meat.