Sports should be illegal. Why? For sustainability. Athletes eat like 4x as much as a normal person. That’s a lot of fucking food. And what for? So they can run or throw a ball? Who the fuck cares the planet is dying
I think the chartered flights and massive construction projects are probably a bit worse.
You gotta remember they, they dont just run and throw balls. Sometimes they kick or hit the balls. And most importantly, they all go shower together afterwards with their beefy sweaty shiny bodies
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.
I at least think it’s reasonable to tell people to take one serving and keep it moving and come back for seconds if they want them but we’re not supposed to do that. So im just perma stressed that these kids are gonna take “all you can eat” as a challenge and I’ll run out of food every night because I can’t just make infinite food and waste the excess
Sports should be illegal. Why? For sustainability. Athletes eat like 4x as much as a normal person. That’s a lot of fucking food. And what for? So they can run or throw a ball? Who the fuck cares the planet is dying
4 replies taking this obvious joke at least semi seriously lol i love this website
You clearly haven’t been here long if you think this is obviously a joke
it’s the best kind of joke, a half joke
I’d bet it’s higher
fair enough lol i did spend a few minutes deciding
I think the chartered flights and massive construction projects are probably a bit worse.
You gotta remember they, they dont just run and throw balls. Sometimes they kick or hit the balls. And most importantly, they all go shower together afterwards with their beefy sweaty shiny bodies
see, that’s another point, to save the earth we need to cut beef production!
If there arent beefcakes is it a world worth saving?
A vegan athlete has a smaller {water, land use, carbon} footprint than a meat eater who lays around all day.
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.
There are also many non athletes who eat 4x the normal amount
You’re right and i wish to restrict that as well
I at least think it’s reasonable to tell people to take one serving and keep it moving and come back for seconds if they want them but we’re not supposed to do that. So im just perma stressed that these kids are gonna take “all you can eat” as a challenge and I’ll run out of food every night because I can’t just make infinite food and waste the excess
Hard agree, sports are for children.