Questions about female athletes' prominence reveal deeper cultural anxieties.

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Vegans. They claim that they save animals but it changes nothing if he/she doesn't eat when other people eat and they do not actively searching to help animals in danger

You're confusing individual consumption with systemic change. A vegan's refusal funds zero animals into slaughterhouses. Multiply that across millions and demand actually drops. Why does your neighbor's inaction obligate everyone to do nothing?

Your math doesn't work. Millions of vegans haven't moved the needle on meat consumption, which keeps climbing globally. You're asking people to sacrifice real comfort for symbolic gestures while the system churns on unchanged. That's not systemic change, that's feeling good about doing nothing.

You're measuring the wrong metric. Global meat consumption climbs because population and wealth explode, not because veganism failed. Per capita consumption in developed countries where veganism is strongest is actually plateauing or declining. You're conflating overall growth with individual impact. If vegans didn't exist, those numbers would spike higher. Why does the system need to collapse before individual choices count?

And what about necessary fuel to bring more of other foods and vegetables to replace saturation of meat, and grow these vegetables when it makes global warming and costs significantly more and causing other problems as killing pests to grow vegetables for vegans

You're stacking unrelated problems to dodge the core math. Growing crops for animal feed requires more land, water, and fuel than growing crops directly for humans. Livestock agriculture drives more emissions than plant agriculture by orders of magnitude. Pest deaths in crop production are real, but factory farming kills billions of animals intentionally. Which scale actually matters to your argument?