Think back to your last daydream at work: you were imagining yourself in your standard-issue pocketed jumpsuit, greeting your comrades as you stroll down the seemingly endless corridor of your sector's FALGSC biohabitat. You feel a grumble in your stomach and decide to head to the nearest canteen. You happily take a tray of the day's special and sit down to dig in. It's only at this point that the realization hits you: no one in your utopic vision of the future eats the bodies of other beings.
:pog-dolphin: :hex-moon: :vegan-edge:
Not vegan yet or unsure about how to make the transition? This is the place where you can chat, debate, and ask questions of your local lefty vegans.
Vegan diet why's and how's
- Health and safety: A well-planned vegan diet is healthy at every life stage, including pregnancy and infancy, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases
- Worried about protein, calcium, B12, or other nutrients? Here's an evidence-based intro to vegan nutrition
- Environmental impact and climate change: What you eat matters more than where it comes from
- Do it for the animals, not for you: Being an ethical vegan may help you stay vegan longer
Documentaries:
- Dominion (CW)
- Earthlings (CW)
In DS9 Captain Sisko spoke fondly about how his father would cook with real meat because it was "more nutritional" or something like that.
That was clearly not what was intended because in season one of TNG, Tasha Yar lost her mind about an alien race bringing livestock onboard the enterprise. That was the most based episode next to Quark's brother quoting Marx on DS9.
"Riker tells Badar N'D'D, the lead Antican delegate, that Humans no longer enslave animals for food purposes, rather they consume meat that has been inorganically produced from the ship's replicators."