Animal Rights Activist Ted Nugent: “If You Wanna Be Responsible for the Most Death Possible, Become a Vegan”
Vegans are “responsible” for more animal deaths every year than carnivores, according to animal rights activist and Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist Dr. Theodore Althea Nugent.
Nugent, seen above basking in the glow of nature, tells Tuscon’s #1 radio station for classic rock hits with weather on the ones, 96.1 KLPX:
“If you wanna be responsible for the most death possible, become a vegan. Because behind that tractor and that plough and that disc, unless you hide and deny it, are crows and seagulls following that tractor growing your tofu because the plough and the disc dismember and mutilate EVERYTHING in those gazillion acres — every squirrel, every ground-nesting gopher, every ground-nesting bird, every snake, every turtle, every animal in that field that’s turned into tofu is SLAUGHTERED by the gazillion.”
Inexplicably failing to note there is no such thing as a tofu field because tofu is not grown any more than cheese is grown, Dr. Nugent continued:
“I’ll never forget, this guy said, ‘Well, we’re going to a vineyard to protest hunting.’ And I go, ‘Wait a second. Do you know the vineyard operator? Because I do. And you know what the vineyard operator does to protect those grapes? He kills EVERYTHING — everything that sneaks in, everything that walks in, everything that flies in. The vineyard operator, to grow your wine, to protest hunting, kills EVERYTHING that threatens those grapes, you jerk.’”
Still, Dr. Nugent went on to explain, some of his best friends are vegan:
“My son’s a vegan, my buddy Michael Lutz [of] Brownsville Station, my co-producer, he’s a vegan for health considerations, for digestive considerations. That’s perfectly legitimate. I’m not knocking veganism. But don’t think for a minute that there’s a reduction in animal deaths because you have a tofu salad. Just the opposite takes place. And denial is such a convenient lie. So all you vegans, just keep eating your vegan salad because I love when you dismember all those animals and the crows and the seagulls pick up on them as they’re writhing in horror and being tortured so you can have a nice ‘blood-free’ salad.”
“Why isn’t that taught in school?” Nugent went on to wonder, presumably before also advocating for the public education system to include Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny in its curriculum.
The claims made by Dr. Nugent (who admittedly did not go to mask college but does have a masterful grasp of human anatomy, and loves a thick dildo) seem to be largely based upon the work of Steven Davis, a professor of animal science at Oregon State University. Davis’ claims, however, are, at best, divisive within the scientific community.
For one thing, although it’s difficult to estimate the number of wild animals killed by crop farming every year, it’s widely believed to be far below 70-80 billion animals killed by the meat industry annually.
For another thing, Davis’ theories do not take into account the less-direct impact the meat industry has on the environment or the quality of life for animals bred into that system. In addition to the greenhouse gases emitted while maintaining that industry, the United States Environmental Protection Agency asserts that factory farm animals in the U.S. produce about 500 million tons of manure each year, which is often dumped into rivers and lakes (little known fact: it’s not great to have shit in your water).
Additionally, speaking to NPR in 2015, Paul Shapiro of the Humane Society of the United States noted the vicious cycle caused by the meat industry:
“Eating fewer or no animals doesn’t mean that animals who would’ve been killed will now live; it means that animals who would’ve been bred into existence to suffer on factory farms will now not be brought into the world and exploited in the terrible ways that are customary in the meat industry. It’s a supply and demand issue. Less demand should mean less supply.”
Meanwhile, the United States Department of Agriculture says that while approximately 77 million acres of land in the U.S. are used to grow crops for human consumption, more than 127 million acres are used to grow crops that are turned into animal feed. These crops require vast amounts of water that has not been soiled by animal manure.
A reported 83% of all global agricultural land is used for animal farming. A 2006 report by the United Nations concluded that 91% percent of all land deforested since 1970, including 70% of deforested land in the Amazon, is used for grazing lifestock.
Regardless, Nugent’s oversight may be considered forgivable in some circles, as the good doctor is currently in the midst of an investigation as to the disappearances of COVIDs 1-18.
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