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I'm not vegan, more like vegetarian and flexitarian with dairy. I'm just trying to explain why (obviously in an orderly fashion, revolutions are expensive) milk from out diet would be a good idea. By now it's fairly clear that the plant based option have more advantages than disadvantages.. Milks isn't particularly bad, but it*s in the "controversial" category. I.e. the stuff one should only consume if one likes the taste, but not for health reasons.
Edit: With eggs the calculation is indeed quite different. They're less of a problem regarding the climate (if you use the water-free portion as a reference) and indeed helpful for protein.
Argh that again. No, saturated fats are not unhealthy. Trans fats, hardened fats, different issue but the saturated scare was an advertisement technique to push margarine at butter prices flanked by a campaign by the sugar industry demonising fat as a whole. The whole "science" behind it is "fire fighters found near conflagration thus fire departments cause fires" type logic. The actual epidemic of heart disease back then was due to people smoking like chimneys but how could you blame cigarettes doctors said they're healthy...
Is that based on those "tons of rain falls on cow pastures and cows drink and pee and we're counting all of that as water usage" numbers. Especially almonds have a much worse water problem, methane burps are an issue yes but can also be addressed by better animal feed and natural supplements, up to 90% reductions and it's not even expensive.