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There are more pressing problems. You shouldn't use fossil fuels because they're polluting anyway, but veganism is about not harming animals by encouraging exploitation by using their products.

Oil and gas come from ancient plants mainly, and you are not harming the ancient animals by using their fossils even if it did come from animals.

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Nope.

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How many times does it need to be said that oil doesn't come from dinosaurs for this stubborn myth to finally disappear?

Cool trivia. Thanks for sharing.

Is it exploitation if it’s needed to survive? It’s closer to exploiting the hunger of people than exploiting animals

We will be gone before the myth.

Largely from from plant matter and thought to be mostly algae

This is probably a karma farmer so many more times.

Fossil fuels still come from the remains of mostly dead plants and some animals, so I’m sure dinosaurs are involved in some fashion.

What do you think? Dinosaurs just died in huge piles that became our oceans of oil? Just saying. https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/we-are-not-running-out-of-oil-earth-produces-crude/

Well, as I understand it, the vast majority of coal comes from, well, the carboniferous (litt. 'coal-bearing') and also from the permian. Dinosaurs didn't exist at that time.

Petroleum is found in sedimentary rocks, and is mostly zooplankton and algae. You know, sediment. Zooplankton is indeed animals, but things like fish eggs and small larvae of various stuff. For petroleum to form, organic matter needs to settle to the bottom of a body of water and decompose without oxygen.

Dinosaurs don't tend to do that in large amounts, for a couple of reasons.

1: Dinosaurs are vanishingly small percentage of the biomass of an ecosystem, especially compared with plants

2: As far as I know there were no (fully) aquatic dinosaurs, so it's not a likely place for them to die to begin with

In conclusion, saying that fossil fuels are made of dinosaurs is about as correct as saying that peanut butter is made of flies because the occasional fly part might be in there. It's misleading. I'm not a paleontologist or geologist, so feel free to correct me ofc, but I'm fairly confident it's not dinos lol

I think what you’ve written makes sense.

I don’t know enough about different types of fossil fuels, where they are all found, and how it relates to dead things from the Mesozoic era to contest anything you’ve claimed.

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No it doesn’t. The vast majority of fossil fuels come from plants, namely trees during a specific interval in history, because detritivores hadn’t yet evolved the ability to break down lignin. Funny how many people actually think fossil fuels are derived from dinosaur remains.

If only there were some infinitely vast collection of information at our fingertips, through which we could look up such simple questions.

Well, since eating animals isn’t needed to survive it doesn’t really matter anyway. Source: am vegan and am also alive.

>am vegan and am also alive

Source? /s

If only I was willing to waste my time “researching” fossil fuels and the Mesozoic era to then anoint myself an expert in the field that’s do ‘doing my own research’. If only I was arrogant to think that these are such simple questions.

At what depths, and locations, are all types of fossil fuels found around the world?

What are all the locations and depths of dinosaur life that died ?

Calculate probability that, on some reasonable level, these remains formed hydrocarbon materials potentially used as fuel?

Super simple.

Stupid people shouldn’t post because they don’t understand science

I agree with your statement but your link is hot garbage.

You exploit grass and twigs to survive then

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True. Humans could even manufacture oil and refine gasoline from it... But multinational corporations take crude oil bc it has a better profit margin & they have to maintain the overwhelmingly successful guise of scarcity, bc that too is good for profit margins.

Cool info. The phrase "fossil fuel" was & is just a marketing technique to imply very limited scarcity.

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vegans aren't at fault that their environment is build on fossil fuels and animal products; if you're forced to use a car to survive, others don't have a right to nag about it.

most sane rittenhouse enjoyer

What does rittenhouse have to do with veganism

What do brain dead takes have to do with other brain dead takes?

Usually means the owner of those takes is… Brain dead.

You still didn’t answer anything, if what I said is braindead but you can’t put it into words then you’re the problem

Damn dude, you’re a fucking genius.

Thanks i studied

the blade

Exactly, or should I say exacto-ly