MZA Veganism

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Claim: It requires 10 to 20 times fewer resources to grow vegetables than it does to farm with animals. Questions: Citation? Is this in gross tonnages? Which types of vegetables? What about environmental impact? Amount of land needed? How do the nutritional energy densities compare to animal farming?

Claim: We are more similar to animals than to vegetables. Therefore we should eat vegetables, but not animals. Counter claim: Comparing using DNA, we are more similar to bananas than to some types of fish. "Robert May is a UK Chief Scientist. In New Scientist magazine (July 1, 2000) on page 5 he stated, "We share half our genes with the banana." [...] In addition, there are fish that have 40% the same DNA as people" - http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GENEALOGY-DNA/2005-01/1106711681 Questions: Which fish? Which vegetables? Is there some resource that maps the degree of difference between any two sets of DNA, specifically human and everything else?