• Alien Nathan Edward
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    1 year ago

    vegan food isn’t expensive. artificial meat replacements are expensive, because you’re paying someone to chemically torture plants until they vaguely remind you of animals. lentils, beans, and other awesome-tasting protein sources are dirt cheap. vegan-first dishes are great and really cheap.

    • @theangryseal
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      -31 year ago

      As a man who fed a vegan child for 8 years…no. Vegan meals cost way more.

      That one kid cost as much as two non vegan kids to feed.

      Maybe it was because I was buying what she said to buy.

      Fortunately when her mom tearfully said, “please be a vegetarian until you grow up and buy your own food.” she went with it.

      It was a nightmare feeding her separate from the rest of us, but I respected her choices. I had to cook two meals every evening. That was rough.

      Glad she’s grown and off at college. I miss her but I don’t miss all that extra work.

        • @theangryseal
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          21 year ago

          You’re right.

          It wasn’t just the vegan thing though. My kid is autistic and absolutely wouldn’t eat anything other than what she put on her list. Like to the point we had to get her help.

          I guess that’s something I shouldn’t have left out. It just wasn’t something that even crossed my mind as I made the comment.

      • Alien Nathan Edward
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        41 year ago

        It’s interesting that while you were making this up you couldn’t decide whether your kid was vegetarian or vegan. You’d think with cooking two separate meals every night you’d be familiar with the difference.

    • @[email protected]
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      -41 year ago

      See, it’s arrogant, and stupid shit like this that makes me wanna go get a burger just to spite ya.

      “Oh fucking no!! I am torturing plants and shit blah blah blah”

      No fucking wonder.

      • ᚲᛇᛚ᛫ᛞᚨᛞᛁ
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        111 year ago

        Ignoring the obvious joke you missed. If someone being a little rude is enough to make you completely give up on your ethical/moral stance, you need to grow a spine dude .

        If a gay person is an ass to me i dont decide to become homophobic and blame it on them.

        • @[email protected]
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          -51 year ago

          I won’t go near the comparison to one’s sexual preference, to another voluntary dietary habits.

          But, you’re not wrong. If this was something that was super important to me and life affecting, then you are completely right.

          Now, as someone who is just trying to not eat meat for personal and whatever reasons, that’s not how you get people into your cause. I am not bound to it, and the perception of the community is something i get to have liberty with.

          How about “well, it’s not an animal. not bad”. Not being me with my kid hearing that her favorite burger patty (the impossible one) is a waste of money and an embarrassment to the real vegans in the middle of the safeway by a random asshole stranger, who had the after thought to explain how tofu is better totally not noticing that his very life is in danger.

          • frevaljee
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            1 year ago

            Oh yes the voluntary dietary habit of taking a sentient being’s life against its will because it’s tasty and I can’t be bothered to learn how to cook properly using plants.