What are the pros and cons of vegetarianism?

Vegetarianism hurts and damages regional diets

Question: What are the pros and cons of vegetarianism?
Position‹2 of 2: Cons of vegetarianism
Argument‹3 of 3: Vegetarianism hurts and damages regional diets

Many of the foods that are popular among vegetarians are exotic and imported, leaving the people that the food is indigenous to without the staples that they need.

The argument

Popular foods such as the avocado and quinoa can only be grown in certain parts of the world. However, their immense demand has pushed prices up so high that locals who have relied on these foods as their staple for years are now unable to afford them. In places that export avocados like Mexico, a kilogram of avocados costs the equivalent of the daily minimum wage. Meanwhile, in places like the Andes where quinoa is grown and exported, the grain has become too expensive for local people to buy, but the grain has been a staple fo the region's diet for years. Vegetarianism has caused people to put certain foods on a pedestal—among them the avocado and quinoa—causing harm to the very people who grow these foods and have always relied on these foods, but are no longer able to obtain them.

Premises

[P1]Foods like avocado and quinoa grow only in certain regions, where they have long been local staples. [P2] Vegetarianism's demand has pushed prices so high that a kilogram of avocados in Mexico now costs a day's minimum wage and Andean locals can no longer afford quinoa. [P3] By putting these foods on a pedestal, vegetarianism harms the very people who grow and depend on them. [C] Therefore, because vegetarianism hurts and damages regional diets, this is one of the cons of vegetarianism.

Counter-arguments

It is unfair to place the blame on vegans for food scarcity caused by influencers, since food trends apply to all sorts of people, not only people who dont eat meat. It also misses the point that most vegans primerally change their diet so that they are not complicit in animal suffering. It is simple enough to do this without resorting to exotic foods. Many dishes, like curries, pasta, pies and much more, can be made with any plant based food easily and there is the ultimate vegan food, the potato. Not all vegans are aspiring to be middle class, potato waffles are VEGAN.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] That these crops are regional staples is not in dispute and supports nothing on its own about vegetarianism. [Rejecting P2] Export demand for avocados and quinoa comes from consumers generally rather than from vegetarians specifically, and the premise offers no figure separating the two. Higher export prices also raise incomes for the growers, an effect the argument does not weigh at all. [Rejecting P3] The link runs through a food fashion, not through the diet. As the counter-argument notes, a plant-based diet is served perfectly well by staples grown almost everywhere, so the harm described attaches to particular sought-after products rather than to vegetarianism as such.