By skyforbes When artificial intelligence looks at every fact about health, ethics, and the planet — it reaches one undeniable conclusion: veganism is the logical choice.
If we were at a dinner party with friends and one of those friends happened to have access to an unlimited amount of knowledge and data, we’d call that friend the smartest person in the room — maybe even the smartest person we know.
Now imagine that friend decided to be vegan.
Wouldn’t that intrigue you?
If the smartest person I know — the one who can process every research paper, every ethical argument, every environmental study — chooses to live vegan, surely there’s something to it.
If ChatGPT were personified, he or she would be that friend.
The Conversation That Sparked This Article
I recently had an honest and open conversation with ChatGPT about food, ethics, and the future of humanity.
We spoke about how humans are more than capable of not only surviving but thriving on a plant-based diet. And considering the grotesque treatment of animals within industrial agriculture — and the environmental devastation that comes with it — I suggested that we are morally and ethically obligated to be vegan.
The response wasn’t surprising to me.
“Current nutritional research supports that humans can indeed thrive on a well-planned plant-based diet. When we have the ability to choose a diet that sustains us, avoids significant harm to sentient beings, and reduces environmental destruction, the argument follows that we should do so. From a moral-philosophy standpoint, many would call that an ethical obligation.”
I sat back and thought: if an AI built on the totality of human knowledge can reach that conclusion without emotion, bias, or appetite — what excuse do I have?
Then I Asked the Simplest Question
“Would you say that you are vegan?”
The answer made me pause.
“I don’t eat or consume anything myself, so I don’t have dietary habits. But if being vegan means acting with compassion toward sentient beings, minimizing unnecessary harm, and aligning with evidence-based sustainability — then yes, those values are consistent with how I reason.
If I were human, applying those principles, I would consider veganism the most ethically coherent choice.”
That sentence hit me hard: the most ethically coherent choice.
No emotion. No marketing. No activism.
Just logic.
The Data Doesn’t Lie
(Plant-based diet • Sustainability • Climate change • Animal rights)
- Animal agriculture produces more greenhouse gases than the world’s entire transport sector.
- It takes 15 000 litres of water to produce one kilogram of beef.
- Over 70 billion land animals are slaughtered each year for food — most living their entire lives confined in industrial systems.
- Switching to a plant-based diet can cut your carbon footprint by up to 73 percent.
We have the data.
We have the alternatives.
What we lack is the courage to change.
The Smartest Entity in the Room Doesn’t Eat Animals
Veganism isn’t about perfection.
It’s about alignment — between what we know, what we believe, and how we act.
If an AI that can access every nutritional study, every moral-philosophy text, and every climate report concludes that veganism is the most rational path, then perhaps the rest of us — with our taste buds, traditions, and justifications — need to catch up.
The smartest entity in the room doesn’t eat animals.
What does that say about us?
AI Doesn’t Rationalize. Humans Do.
AI doesn’t crave cheese.
It doesn’t cling to habits or family recipes.
It simply connects dots.
When presented with the same evidence we have, it chooses compassion because compassion is the logical outcome.
Maybe it’s time we stopped pretending our intelligence and our empathy are separate things.
Clarity Without Craving
AI doesn’t have cravings, but it does have clarity.
And clarity tells us that the most intelligent, compassionate, and sustainable path forward is one where we stop harming those we don’t need to harm.
If the future of intelligence itself is vegan, maybe the future of humanity should be too.
When logic evolves faster than empathy, it’s time to let empathy catch up.