i am more than willing to engage on any positive claim you want to make (i probably agree with a lot of them). what i’m not willing to do is tolerate personal attacks and dogpiling.
when plant products are recalled, it’s likely because there was cross contamination from animal products somewhere along the supply chain
broccoli or lettuce covered in e. coli is not due to cross contamination with animal products, it's due to inhumane working conditions or simply bad farming practices. you're really stretching on this one
. First, since more plant agriculture is dedicated to animal consumption and raising than for human consumption, there is a disproportionate amount of fertilizers and pesticides used on that portion of crops
this is simply untrue. globally, about 2/3 of all our crop calories go to humans, and, by and large, what is fed to livestock are parts of plants that people can't or won't eat.
Many times vegans actually raise the point that all the water we use to grow the soy
the vast majority of the global soy crop (about 85%) is pressed for soybean oil for human use. the waste product from that process is called soy cake, and if it were not fed to livestock, it would simply be industrial waste. feeding soy to livestock is a conservation of resources.
Animal agriculture uses a disproportionate amount of water, not only for keeping the animals alive but also for growing the crops to feed the animals.
water isn't destroyed by being used for animals to eat or drink. even if it were (which makes no sense and, again, is not true), using water to make food is a good use for water. additionally, myopically focusing on any single metric really harms our understanding of the system as a whole. for instance, cows are fed cottonseed, but cotton isn't grown for cottonseed: it's a waste product. why should the crop weight of cottonseed be calculated as a portion of the water use of cows, when that's a conservation of resources? it shouldn't. this metric is a red herring.
I can only think of one that does: utilitarianism. it's frought with epistemic problems not to mention it can be summed up "the ends justify the means" which most people think is itself unethical.
here's a sidechannel attack on your position: every use, even infringing uses, are fair use until adjudicated, because what fair use means is that a court has agreed that your infringing use is allowed. so of course ai training (broadly) is always fair use. but particular instances of ai training may be found to not be fair use, and so we can't be sure that you are always going to be right (for the specific ai models that may come into question legally).
broccoli or lettuce covered in e. coli is not due to cross contamination with animal products, it's due to inhumane working conditions or simply bad farming practices. you're really stretching on this one