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You don't make fun of halal or kosher? Where's the fun in that?!
As a non vegan. I have the largest respect for you guys. Keep on living the good life. Maybe I can manage to hop over in the future.
I believe in you. It seems way harder than it really is. If you have questions or want recipes or tips or whatever there are armies of us dying to help others live in alignment with their values.
Also like selfishly I found I felt waaaaay better after going vegan. Probs more a side effect of just more whole foods but damned did I feel notably more energic and clear headed.
All the days I have tried vegan, I constantly would have to eat to get full and get energy. So that's why I haven't gone vegan. I feel like you would just need to constantly eat.
You're probably just not eating rich enough food! If your normal meal is something like say spaghetti bolognese and you take out the beef and cheese and just throw in some lentils for an equivalent mass they have 1/3 the calories! Not to mention cheese is incredibly energy dense.
Usually, proteins tend to work out if you're using lentils/legumes in reasonable amounts. They tend to beat meat on a gram for gram basis just on raw numbers but be much lower energy to make up the difference so you need some fats in there. This is where stuff like nuts and seeds come in.
If you're also suddenly increasing fibre intake that can irritate your gut and make it move stuff a little too fast which can make you feel hungry.
Here are a few cheap and lazy meals that always fill me up. Try them for yourself.
https://www.purelykaylie.com/vegan-moroccan-stew/#tasty-recipes-10125-jump-target
https://thestingyvegan.com/vegan-jambalaya/
https://lovingitvegan.com/vegan-burrito/#recipe (lazy in big batches anyway)
https://www.veganricha.com/grillable-veggie-burger/#recipe
https://thewoksoflife.com/buddhas-delight-lo-han-jai/#recipe (ok this one isn't lazy but it isn't hard and it'd delicious!)
It's honestly the best thing I ever did for myself. Made me think about food and living in s whole new way. Thanks for the genuine support, it gets old being made fun of.
The screenshot is obviously wrong. People will make fun of anyone for anything, anywhere and anytime. Problem is the disagreement on what's acceptable.
I was at my dad's birthday last year and the meal was: sauerkraut, potatoes and an ABSURD amount of different meats. Like it was bizzare, even for someone who is used to people eat a lot of meat. It wasn't even good (i guess) because it was all greasy and just too much. It wasn't good looking or anything, it was just a lot and like half of it they threw away. At some point one of his alcoholic friends said loud: thank god there are no vegans here har har har. Are you so absorbed in your meat religion that... No, i still don't know what the point was. But everyone found it very funny, so i guess it is.
One of the things that really changed my perception was learning that a single burger patty might contain some ground up flesh of a few, or possibly even a hundred or more animals.
Our food system does a really good job of hiding it's brutality behind heavy processing, and clever packaging and advertising. But once we open our eyes to what really goes on, it can't be unlearned. We have a responsibility to at least make ourselves aware when our actions are responsible for awful things happening.
Being vegan doesn't equate with being religious. I think that a part of the problem is that some vegans truly do base their entire identity around it and people find that annoying, like when atheists are surrounded by one friend who won't shut up about god.
to be fair we are made out of meat
I own a halal restaurant and I make fun of halalers all the time
Have you seen the what does halal mean? youtube short by therealsamalkhatib? It's a cute little sketch and whenever I make/eat falafel now it's become a bit of a meme.
No I hadn't, pretty silly lol
My wife and I are mostly vegetarian (vegetarian, plus meat once per week plus leftovers or every other week) just because we like it more, environmental reasons, healthier, etc. We have zero problem with 95% of vegans, I'll cook vegan meals if any vegan friends or friends of friends are coming over, eat at mostly or fully vegan restaurants if going out with vegan friends, etc. It's not a big deal and has no reason to be one.
However - I say 95% for a reason. The 5% are people like my MIL. She lectures us about how eating any animal products is wrong every time we see her, spouts bogus facts with no actual sources to anyone she can get to listen (going vegan will cure cancer, diabetes, and autism within 8 weeks), and is generally insufferable to be around now because she will bring it up out of nowhere.
I don't hate vegans at all, I hate people that are pretentious assholes about being vegan
It is wrong though. Like you clearly care but what, it's ok to do a little evil as a treat? why?
Evil is a relative term. I could argue that capitalism is evil, or buying things that can't be recycled, or Catholicism. Maybe start with asking yourself how you justify doing things someone else might think of as evil before using it as some sort of magic bullet argument.
Forcibly impregnating someone, kidnapping their baby, and taking their breast milk is like when you buy potatoes.
If you said gold or diamonds I would absolutely agree with you. Potatoes? That's mainly just child labor, wage theft, and giving farm workers cancer.
^[citation needed]^
I don’t hate vegans at all, I hate people that are pretentious assholes about being vegan
Which is zero vegans.
It's the same mindset that gets mad about things being woke
Where I live its in the legal gray zone to talk shit about religion, so theres that. And so far that I know, no vegan have commited terror acts because of the ill treatment of vegans.
This is why I launched https://vegantheoryclub.org I delete the carnist posts lol
I support purging animal abuse "content"