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Is this the vegan utopia we’ve been dreading? You don’t win friends with salad

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

What huge sacrifice?

We eat far too much meat, and the huge overconsumption of meat is not only very bad land use, it's very bad for us personally, leading to chronic illnesses in later life.

I'm not vegan, I'm not even a vegetarian, but I've massively reduced meat intake of all kinds (and very very rarely touch red meat these days). I don't even miss it, and I don't count it as a sacrifice. I have discovered all sorts of plant based foods which are to be honest better than meat, so it's a "negative sacrifice" - not only is my health improved, my food is more enjoyable, too.

The expectation to have meat every single meal is frankly ludicrous.