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Plant-based food comes from plants rather than animals.
Reasons
More environmentally friendly, due to
- Eating food crops more directly, instead of feeding them to animals and eating the animals, which is inefficient.
- Avoiding the methane emissions of cows.
Less animal cruelty
- Cows, chickens, and pigs suffer in factory farms, where conditions are far worse than the nice farms you see in children's storybooks. Factory farms exist to meet the high demand for meat, milk and eggs. The less we consume these products, the lower the demand, and the fewer animals suffer.