So genuine question as someone who didn't eat meat for 10 years: If we're talking a purely efficient approach to this, then while 100% plant based is better than the current model wouldn't there be more efficient models than that? For example insect farms fed by plant waste, continuing to fish sustainably under the plant farming model, and having free range chickens as pets and eating their eggs. I'm curious how vegans would even view this. Like is a bacterial vat that produces calories vegan? Are insects permissible? And then the chicken eggs. If you keep your own chickens and treat them good, and let them run free range, and just take the extra eggs, is that permissible to vegans? If not then why not? Genuinely curious.
I'm also curious if these models take the Haber-Bosch process into account. Because most of our plant based agriculture currently is supported by it. I'm of the strong belief that industrial agriculture is entirely untenable without it, and we'd have to switch to a food forest model, which would actually be MORE land efficient for the same calories. And since that process is reliant on the fossil fuel industry it is always going to be unstable. So it really needs to be phased out of wide use in the food supply chain. It's a famine waiting to happen.