• Wage_slave@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I don't eat a lot of meat, but after hearing arguments like these from vegetarians and vegans, I gave up on not eating meat.

    Too expensive to eat vegan and I got really fucking tired of being called fucking stupid for buying meat free alternatives. It's not worth the effort in the end.

    • Joe Robinette Mama@lemm.ee
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      9 months 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.

      • Wage_slave@lemmy.ml
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        9 months 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@reddthat.com
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          9 months 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.

            • ᚲᛇᛚ᛫ᛞᚨᛞᛁ@reddthat.com
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              9 months ago

              Okay how about this.

              A person who says murder is bad is also mean to me, does that mean i get to murder people and blame them?

              The point is the idea that you can do something unethical or completely abandon your morals because an advocate of it was kinda annoying to you is insane

          • Wage_slave@lemmy.ml
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            9 months 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.

              • Joe Robinette Mama@lemm.ee
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                9 months ago

                In fairness, it's really easy to act like a badass in front of...am I reading that right, some hypothetical guy in Costco who told his daughter she's not a real vegan?

                • Wage_slave@lemmy.ml
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                  9 months ago

                  I didn't act or anything. I just stood there much like here watching the entitled dietary moron go off.

                  But I was really annoyed so like the imaginary cool vegan, it was more contexts. But good notes. It was Safeway. No wonder yall are not taken seriously.

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                  • Joe Robinette Mama@lemm.ee
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                    9 months ago

                    Once again, because it's come up so many times in this thread, not at all vegan, definitely omnivorous, just not someone who assumes their membership in the majority defines them as a victim unlike the coward Wage_slave@lemmy.ml

        • dualmindblade [he/him]
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          9 months ago

          This is not arrogance it's playful language for humorous effect. The real reason to not eat fake meat is that it usually doesn't taste very good no matter how you prepare it, whereas traditional vegan food can be amazing

      • Catradora_Stalinism [she/her, comrade/them]
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        9 months ago

        woah its expensive in different places, must mean the average person everywhere is still able to buy it in the expensive areas!

        those sound delicious tho