censored for “transphobia”@rolandwasheeeere That cheeky WSJ headline was non-serious clickbait. The article did not actually suggest ppl skip breakfast. It mentioned #egg prices jumped 8.5%. I’m not bothered when non-vegan food prices jump. That’s a good thing if it helps steer people away from animal exploitation.
Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs@koherecoWatchdog @rolandwasheeeere so you're cheering on folks starving because it drives people veg. people being driven veg by higher prices and then being driven off their veg food by that going higher too was the irish great famine. ideologically-driven psychopathy
Wendy Lady@ellenor2000 @koherecoWatchdog @rolandwasheeeere I read that too and raised an eyebrow. Sometimes vegans are proto-vegan...aka, want to push their own ideologies on others without their consent. Almost as bad as religious fundamentalism. Ignoring the human exploitive cost to harvesting their veggies, of course. Then they come around and drop the act and just be vegan for their own selves and leave the rest of us alone. I dated a vegan who knew better. And I actually like vegan food! Just not that other manipulative bullshit.
Anyway, this article's notion just made me want to raise my own chickens...too bad I can't afford a house with a yard to do it. Just like the vegans want, I guess. 🫠
@ellenor2000 @koherecoWatchdog @rolandwasheeeere somewhat. There are ways to be fully nutritional as a vegan, but there are also ways to be incredibly unhealthy as a vegan. My ex knew that he could be an unhealthy vegan at times. Because the multi-step process to make vegan food palatable and satiating often took a large portion of the day. Of course I loved to cook and find recipes that worked, but absolutely correct on the steps it took to get there. We'd spend hours cooking sometimes.
Corvid Crone@NerdRage42 @ellenor2000 @koherecoWatchdog @rolandwasheeeere this aspect of eating a vegan diet is not nearly talked about enough. It takes so much time and cooking to eat a vegan diet and also ensure that all nutritional needs are met.
A lot of people don't have the time or energy for that.
@CorvidCrone @rolandwasheeeere @ellenor2000 @NerdRage42 That’s true, but if you consider the case at hand (eggs are 8.5% costlier), for the same money you have ~9 eggs instead of 10. Having one less egg per the span of time you consume 10 is not going to take someone down the malnuitrition path. I’m not vegan but I’ve probably cut my non-vegan intake by ~80%, so I’m not at all at risk for malnutrition.
@NerdRage42 @ellenor2000 @rolandwasheeeere @CorvidCrone If/when I knock out the final 20%, then my food knowledge will become more important. I know someone who went vegan w/out knowing what he was doing & got hospitalized for malnutrition. But I must say whether someone “has time” is really a placeholder for “caring to allocate their time”.
@koherecoWatchdog @NerdRage42 @ellenor2000 @rolandwasheeeere
"But I must say whether someone “has time” is really a placeholder for “caring to allocate their time”."
Yikes, dude. Yikes.
@CorvidCrone @rolandwasheeeere @ellenor2000 @NerdRage42 Of course. Everyone has time. “Time” is a scapegoat for ppl who give a lower priority to something. Prioritization is really the issue. Yikes, if you don’t realize this.
@NerdRage42 @ellenor2000 @rolandwasheeeere @CorvidCrone “I don’t have time to be ethical” really means “ethics is not high enough priority to consume my time”.