MilitantVegan @ MilitantVegan @lemmy.world

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The lgbtq+ communities and vegans are both seeking justice in their own areas of concern, so it's most definitely not extreme to compare the two.

Agreed.

The point of vegan cheese is that they most certainly do not taste like murder. 😁

There was a time when the "definition" of marriage was a union between only one amab and afab person. Definitions change.

I've definitely had some good hot dogs and brats. I don't remember which stadium style hot dogs I've tried, but I usually go for some flavor of Field Roast.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LwpAS5_RVxM

psilocybe-infused artisinal almond cheese. 🧑‍🍳🤌

If you skip the mass produced stuff, there are plenty of great naturally fermented plant-based cheeses. But in my experience it always feels like something is missing, which probably has to do with dairy's addictiveness. How do you compete with drugs?

I've posted more in depth responses to 'reducitarianism' elsewhere. In one comment I made an analogy to quitting smoking, and how 'reducing' my cigarette count only led to a rebound where I smoked even more than before.

It's well known in the scientific literature that people are so inaccurate at self-reporting what, and how much of what, they eat, that questionnaire-based studies are specifically designed to compensate for these inaccuracies. So anecdotal claims of people reducing their animal consumption mean very little, particularly when data seems to indicate the opposite.

And like Ed Winter's post gets into, you need to put the concept of reduction within the concept of justice. Fewer animals being bred and slaughtered sounds nice, but what about for the animals still being abused and murdered? Do you find it acceptable when corporations promise only to reduce carbon emissions by about 10% by 2035? Or how would you feel if police unions claimed they would disproportionately arrest black people 20% less than they used to?

Sorry but 'reduction' is nothing but a self-soothe to make people feel like they're doing something good, when in reality they are just continuing their injustice while assuaging their own guilt. Just another form of cognitive dissonance.

https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production

The devil is in the details, but in most cases it's eating animal products that's the luxury.

https://www.veganeasy.org/discover/news/oxford-university-researchers-finds-vegan-diets-are-cheaper/

Hope it goes well for you. 😁

https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Permaculture/The_One_Straw_Revolution.pdf

No, pretty sure you're the one whose been making wild assertions with no supporting evidence.

For more wholesome foods I like Dr Greger's recipe books.

https://nutritionfacts.org/books/

I've had a few dishes from them as well, and they are really tasty.

https://thefirstmess.com/

There's plenty of others too, particularly on YouTube. Sauce Stache, Cheap Lazy Vegan, the Whole Food Plant Based Cooking Show, etc.

Wild animal suffering is a hot debate in the vegan communities these days. There is no cut and dry answer for that. However, whatever we do or don't do to alleviate or eliminate wild animal suffering says nothing about whether we also create and maintain our own system of animal suffering. We can end the human exploitation of animals, and doing so can teach us a lot about ending our exploitation of each other as well.

Again you're being factually incorrect about agriculture. The plants and plant parts that humans can't eat are important sources of nutrients for composting and building soil fertility. And animals do have a place in agriculture, and that place is a free-living association where humans and animals mutually benefit from each other.

https://goveganic.net/

Are you saying people should hide the fact that they're vegan?

The thing I want to be clear about here is that a vegan diet is nutritionally adequate for all our needs, and at every stage of life.

Except we're talking about a situation where enough people doing one of these things has the possibility of actually ending atrocities like factory farms, as well as possibly vivisection and other animal abuses in science. You're acting as if vegans only think about diet, when in fact I've expressed that everything you've brought up is something that vegans do make efforts to improve.

Except it's not? Half-measures get half-results.

Now you're just grasping at semantics. Aside from the fact that vegans have promoted a way of life that led to the creation of animal sanctuaries, which literally does save animals lives; obviously abstaining from behavior that causes sentient, feeling, thinking beings to be actively bred into existence for the purpose of suffering their whole short lives for someone's fleeting sensory pleasure makes a real difference. I believe I've already linked you to an article elsewhere, showing that even one person going vegan absolutely makes a difference.