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 @ellenor2000 @koherecoWatchdog @rolandwasheeeere especially when our labor is exploited by our employers and we are spending more and more time in traffic as we are driven further and further away from our places of employment because we can't afford housing costs. And then those housing costs increase and we have to work longer hours in order to stay on top.
Chris A Dude@NerdRage42 @CorvidCrone @ellenor2000 @koherecoWatchdog @[email protected] hi. Historically meat was exclusively for the rich and sometimes for the middle class.The reason prices of meat and animal products become so cheap(er) is exploitation. In America companies where fined for using child labour as young as 12. It was meat packing plants. Last year people where outrage at employees at another packing plant not given bathroom breaks.
Shantell Powell@chaosrsa That depends on whose history you’re talking about. My Inuit ancestors ate very little vegetation. I agree with you about exploitation, though. Factory farming is one of the worst things capitalism came up with. It’s awful for the animals and for the people and for the land.
@Shanmonster fare enough, I was talking about Europe, should have clarified.