• AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    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

    • sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]
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      2 months ago

      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

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      2 months ago

      A vegan athlete has a smaller {water, land use, carbon} footprint than a meat eater who lays around all day.

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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          2 months ago

          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.

          • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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            2 months ago

            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

            • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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              2 months ago

              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.

          • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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            2 months ago

            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

            • bigboopballs [he/him]
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              2 months ago

              what cook is working x4 harder to feed an athlete? you gotta be fucking trolling

              • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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                2 months ago

                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

      • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        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