Colton B. Wainwright

The cost of vegetables jumped 49% last month as inflation hit hard and companies raised prices.

"Beef uses 15,000 liters of water per kilogram." Right. Yes. Staggering number. Enormous. Cannot argue with the size of it. One question though, if you'll permit it. Just one. Very small. Easily answered. Where does the water come from? Not philosophically. Not as a rhetorical exercise. Literally. Physically. Where does the water in that calculation come from? It comes from the sky. It is rain. British rain. The thing that has been falling on Britain continuously since before anyone thought to keep records and that, if you've spent more than forty minutes in this country, you will be aware is not exactly a limited resource we need to manage carefully. It is falling on a field. As it would whether or not a cow was standing in it. As it did before the cow arrived. As it will do long after everyone who has ever shared that statistic on social media has departed this planet for whatever comes next. Here is the question nobody asks. If you removed every cow from that field tomorrow morning, every single one, gone, lorry comes, the lot, would it rain less? No. Of course it wouldn't. The rain does not consult agricultural policy. The rain does not know about the infographic. The rain has one job and that job is to fall, and it performs that job with tremendous consistency regardless of what is standing beneath it. The water does not get saved. The water still falls. It just has no root system to soak into, no grazed sward to slow its movement, no hoof-churned surface to increase infiltration. It runs off the compacted, ungrazed field into the nearest river, picks up whatever topsoil hasn't been fastened down, carries it downstream, and deposits it in someone else's flood plain. The cow is not drinking your planet. The cow is, if you want to be pedantic about it, one of the more useful things that could happen to that rainfall. Go outside. It's probably raining. Have a think.

56% of Americans believe COVID vaccines caused "mass death"

Calling carnivore a fad diet just tells me that the person has no concept of human evolution. It's the oldest, most battle-tested, and safest of our diets.