The soy that vegans use to replace animal fats and proteins is horrendously grown here in the US. Most of our soybean crop is of a monocropped, GMO variety using heavy amounts of pesticides and fertilizers. See the recent articles on dead zones in the oceans due to excess nitrogen.
To insinuate that a vegan diet is better for the planet than meat is insincere. In the end it's probably a wash, for various reasons.
98% of the US soybean crop is used to feed livestock, according to Britannica http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/557184/soybean . Eating the soybeans directly, instead of converting most of them to animal manure, uses dramatically less pesticide and fertilizer.
I request that you withdraw your accusation of insincerity and substantiate your extraordinary claim that "it's probably a wash, for various reasons".
To insinuate that a vegan diet is better for the planet than meat is insincere. In the end it's probably a wash, for various reasons.