• Ignacio@kbin.social
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    Can anyone explain to me why being vegan is the new cool, while being vegetarian is equal to eating meat without eating meat? Like, when I’m looking for vegetarian recipes, I only see vegan recipes, no vegetarian ones anywhere.

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        In my country, supermarkets aren’t allowed to sell eggs from caged hens. Only eggs from hens raised outdoors. There are four categories of eggs marked with numbers:

        • 0: eggs from caged hens, not sold anywhere legally.
        • 1: eggs from uncaged hens but raised indoors, very difficult to find.
        • 2: eggs from uncaged hens and raised outdoors, easy to find.
        • 3: eggs from uncaged hens, raised outdoors and feed with natural food, without pesticides and shit, easy to find.

        By the way, US is neither the center of the world nor the only country in the world. Sorry to say that, but I think it’s necessary to say it.

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          They still kill all their male chicks right after birth, the hen herself after ~18 months (lifespan up to 10 Years)

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          The cruel practices are standard all over the world, not just the US.

          Exploiting animals for profit is never gonna be humane.

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        Yes, animal cruelty is a real problem. But I’d say the message then is “choose responsibly the source of your milk and eggs”, not necesarilly jump-full-vegan

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      As a vegetarian myself, I’ve thought about this a little bit.

      I think it ultimately boils down to the fact that going vegan requires a lot more work from an individual. Avoiding meat might be a pain in the ass to implement at times, but the actual intellectual process is straightforward. You need to watch out for soup stocks, cheeses with rennet, and meat sauces basically. Everything else, at least in my experience, is obvious. Converting a recipe to vegetarian doesn’t require too much thinking. A lot of foods are just innately vegetarian and won’t be labelled as such: there aren’t “vegetarian pancakes” or “vegetarian pies” out there — they’re just expected to be vegetarian unless someone made a meat version. Only a small handful of pizzas will be labelled vegetarian even though most are or trivially can be made such. It’s easier to find/adapt recipes that are vegetarian compatible.

      Going vegan is just a full extra process. Eggs, milk, butter aren’t visually obvious. Even bread isn’t certain to be vegan-friendly. The ingredients being removed from a recipe cannot be simply removed, especially with baked goods, without risking the entire recipe becoming a disaster. If you take a cookie recipe and remove the eggs and butter, you’re going to be disappointed; you need to find a recipe designed from the ground up to not use eggs or butter.

      The extra restrictions on vegans mean they need to be much more specific about their foods than vegetarians.

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        I would describe myself as vegetarian but there is a wide variety of ways to be strict about it so it’s almost a useless way to describe oneself. Personally, I avoid cheese because of rennet, wine because of eisenglass, I won’t eat anything with gelatin, i avoid eggs unless they come from my friends who have chickens (because I know their chickens are well cared for). I end up being close to vegan but don’t really feel like that label fits me because I’m sure I eat butter without realizing it, or other milk products which can end up in places you don’t expect (milk is in tootsie rolls, for example).

        On the other hand I know vegetarians who just avoid meat and are fine with chicken or beef stock or gelatin.

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      Because veganism is better than vegetarianism. But also, what’s so bad about vegan recipes? A vegetarian can eat those too.

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        There is nothing bad about them, except when they start using other ingredients instead of eggs, milk or honey.

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      I can stomach a meal or two without meat, but you’re going to have to shoot me before I’ll eat that disgusting fake cheese.

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        Love how you’re getting downvoted for promoting a vegetarian diet in a thread about…eating less meat lol, I guess there are more ex-Redditors here than I realized.

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            People who eat meat are taking a pretty all or nothing stance on animal lives, a diet isn’t just a diet when victims are involved.

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              Its a meat eat meat world my friend. Being my dinner is better than the carnivor that eats you alive and toys with your innards as it enjoys your screams of pain.

              The circle of life ends in death and the laws of nature demands consumption.

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                That doesn’t work when we’re breeding them by the billions specifically to kill them, you aren’t saving anyone from anything.

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                  But there would have been dozens of other species using the resources and slaughtering each other as I said above.

                  It would be the same scale of slaughter, just spread out and brutal as described above.

                  The meat industry has problems that should be discussed, but taking a moral stance of eating meat is evil is a most privileged delusional take.

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                    No it would not, wild predators cannot set up factory farms.

                    Killing others when you can easily avoid it is clearly evil.

                    We can just eat plants.