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Veganism is getting easier, but it's still tough.

Mate of mine has a vegan meal plan business I had a couple of months free whilst they were tweaking menus etc. Honestly, the food was amazing and I felt holier than thou eating it.

Obviously I didn't keep it up, but I eat far less meat than I used to. I'll have meat probably.....3 times a week, and that will generally be if I'm out. The hardest thing for me to give up would be eggs, I have them every morning. Scrambled, fried, poached, omelette...I love em all so that would be tough. I've also yet to find a plant based milk that makes a decent coffee so that's probably got to stay too.

The planet is on its arse, and if each and every one of you cut back on meat a little it would help slow down our inevitable demise.

Besides the environmental impact the suffering the farmed animals go through for their short, miserable lives is really quite barbaric. I think humans generally have an empathy with animals. If slaughterhouses were closed and outlawed and we had all had to buy live animals to slaughter at home I reckon veganism would go through the roof and you'd have a pet cow in the back yard.
 
Daveysgingerlovechild said:
Brilliantly divisive dietary and lifestyle choice.

The anger that can be generated by eating a plant based diet is astounding.

More power to them. Especially the ones who openly judge meat eaters. Pure aggro merchants.
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Superb. Similarly, amazing how changing your daily commute from car to a bicycle can elicit certain responses when you get too close to a builders van, and the driver thinks you're a bit slow.

"Oi, dont be spoyylin moy van... duhhh ... farrkorrff anwarrrk yarcannnt"

Mods: Please don't get my references to John Wark, Brian Cant and obviously the Van der Kerkhof twins mixed up with various expletives.
 
BNJ1878 said:
Veganism is getting easier, but it's still tough.

Mate of mine has a vegan meal plan business I had a couple of months free whilst they were tweaking menus etc. Honestly, the food was amazing and I felt holier than thou eating it.

Obviously I didn't keep it up, but I eat far less meat than I used to. I'll have meat probably.....3 times a week, and that will generally be if I'm out. The hardest thing for me to give up would be eggs, I have them every morning. Scrambled, fried, poached, omelette...I love em all so that would be tough. I've also yet to find a plant based milk that makes a decent coffee so that's probably got to stay too.

The planet is on its arse, and if each and every one of you cut back on meat a little it would help slow down our inevitable demise.

Besides the environmental impact the suffering the farmed animals go through for their short, miserable lives is really quite barbaric. I think humans generally have an empathy with animals. If slaughterhouses were closed and outlawed and we had all had to buy live animals to slaughter at home I reckon veganism would go through the roof and you'd have a pet cow in the back yard.
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I'm not too far away from this position. I'm not really bothered about eggs and actively dislike cheese so vegan options are always pretty appealing to me but I can't, or more accurately won't, go entirely vegan for a sustained period of time as I like the variety and convenience of a full omnivore diet.

But in terms of cutting down on meat and dairy consumption to the degree that they make up the smaller share of my diet I find it fairly easy. Watching and reading about the barbarism of the meat and dairy industries was the main driver for me. There's no holier than thou way of raising and preparing animals for consumption and but some of the sheer brutality that goes on to squeeze a few more pence profit is pretty sickening.

I absolutely hold my hand up to the hypocrisy of my position but I do try and keep my spending away from that real low cost, factory farmed, low welfare end of the market and go meat/dairy free much more often than I used to. Though the way industries intertwine at all levels in various ways I'm probably deluding myself more than making any real contribution.
 

BNJ1878 said:
Veganism is getting easier, but it's still tough.

Mate of mine has a vegan meal plan business I had a couple of months free whilst they were tweaking menus etc. Honestly, the food was amazing and I felt holier than thou eating it.

Obviously I didn't keep it up, but I eat far less meat than I used to. I'll have meat probably.....3 times a week, and that will generally be if I'm out. The hardest thing for me to give up would be eggs, I have them every morning. Scrambled, fried, poached, omelette...I love em all so that would be tough. I've also yet to find a plant based milk that makes a decent coffee so that's probably got to stay too.

The planet is on its arse, and if each and every one of you cut back on meat a little it would help slow down our inevitable demise.

Besides the environmental impact the suffering the farmed animals go through for their short, miserable lives is really quite barbaric. I think humans generally have an empathy with animals. If slaughterhouses were closed and outlawed and we had all had to buy live animals to slaughter at home I reckon veganism would go through the roof and you'd have a pet cow in the back yard.
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I don’t know, if God didn’t want us to eat cows he wouldn’t have made them taste of beef 🤷‍♂️
 

BNJ1878 said:
Veganism is getting easier, but it's still tough.

Mate of mine has a vegan meal plan business I had a couple of months free whilst they were tweaking menus etc. Honestly, the food was amazing and I felt holier than thou eating it.

Obviously I didn't keep it up, but I eat far less meat than I used to. I'll have meat probably.....3 times a week, and that will generally be if I'm out. The hardest thing for me to give up would be eggs, I have them every morning. Scrambled, fried, poached, omelette...I love em all so that would be tough. I've also yet to find a plant based milk that makes a decent coffee so that's probably got to stay too.

The planet is on its arse, and if each and every one of you cut back on meat a little it would help slow down our inevitable demise.

Besides the environmental impact the suffering the farmed animals go through for their short, miserable lives is really quite barbaric. I think humans generally have an empathy with animals. If slaughterhouses were closed and outlawed and we had all had to buy live animals to slaughter at home I reckon veganism would go through the roof and you'd have a pet cow in the back yard.
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I drink black filter coffee now. Adding milk feels weird
 

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