No, but 1) 1800 calories of animal products have more land use and embodied labor and energy than 7500 calories of plants, so veganism is a much better approach than “don’t be an athlete because it’s wasteful” nonsense, and 2) we’re nowhere near the point where penny-pinching each other’s calories or trying to justify them to the public is worth doing. The carrying capacity is way above the global population, even if we were to set aside half of all land as nature preserves.
and? a vegan athlete will still use 10x the calories and nutrition of a non athlete
we don’t need to ration calories.
very generous of you to tell the cook it’s fine to work 4x harder to feed people 5x more food just so they can run fast and throw ball
very healthy too imo i love seeing 20 year olds with ice strapped to their knees, def not grinding away their bodies for sportsball
what cook is working x4 harder to feed an athlete? you gotta be fucking trolling
tell me more about how you’ve fed a football, baseball, and rugby team (technically five teams bc gender)
they eat a lot more and it’s a lot of fucking guesswork to not overprepare because you also don’t even know if they’re coming any given night, or when
4 times at the most, probably closer to 2 times (4k-5k kcal/d) in most cases.
Honestly with plant-based you’d need to get up to 20x to start making any noticeable effect on land use.
I’m telling you athletes eat literally 4x as much and it being vegan food isn’t going to magically make protein and carbs appear from their asses
No, but 1) 1800 calories of animal products have more land use and embodied labor and energy than 7500 calories of plants, so veganism is a much better approach than “don’t be an athlete because it’s wasteful” nonsense, and 2) we’re nowhere near the point where penny-pinching each other’s calories or trying to justify them to the public is worth doing. The carrying capacity is way above the global population, even if we were to set aside half of all land as nature preserves.