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American vegans, where do you buy your food to save money?
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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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I didn’t say it was non vegan. But it isn’t healthy. Rice and beans mostly, some vegetables they I grow, cheap pasta. I have a friend who I can buy buckwheat through sometimes. Yes, I have a buckwheat dealer.
Also do you understand what a food desert is? Tofu? Chickpeas? You wish. I’m lucky if I see regular chicken breast every few months.
A cab to the closest grocery store will ring you 80 dollars there and back, not costing the cost of finding an Uber (there are none where I am), or a cab (these do not exist outside of major cities). Are you paying the bill? How is that cheap? If you want a good leg day, you should apparently be able to make the trip in 4 hours by bike (I live in an extremely mountainous area so good luck), or about 12 hours round trip by foot.
To answer your question, I grow some food, but it’s not much, and since I don’t eat fast food (one of the only food options) I starve.
Also what makes you think I can afford to purchase the vegan options at a regular grocery store if I magically teleported to one?
Thank you. I don’t mean to come off as hostile or anti-vegan, as ironically I have been eating basically vegan for a long time.
But when you have to choose between survival and starvation, extremely snarky people act like you’re the devil because you have to dare eat chicken as opposed to tofu because you simply can’t afford it, and would not like to die.
It gets old fast, seeing people in positions of privilege act all high and mighty and holier then thou, because you dare eat a “violence product” because you have no other choice.
the fact that the staples are generally cheaper than their violence-based counterparts
Per pound, and per caloric mass; Tofu is nearly 3 times the cost of traditional cheap meats like chicken breasts where I am. I cannot justify that. Plus a lot of farms are subsidized so meats are purposefully kept cheap.
Im happy you have the privilege of living in an area with those possibilities. But that is simply not the reality for the majority of people.
Im sorry that I have to choose between my own death, and eating “violence based counterparts”.
I haven't eaten tofu in years. I'm talking about rice, beans. You know, the shit that people way poorer than you have to live on.
That’s what I do live off of smartass. That’s basically my whole diet. Thanks for smearing it in my face.
Did you even read the rest of the thread?
Also how do you know anything about me or how much money I have to live off of per month? You don’t, stop being snarky.
Goes both ways, comrade. You started throwing out assumptions and accusations about "privilege" first.
You are an awful person
You immediately came off of a 30 day ban to call people names? You learned nothing huh?
"smartass"
Oh no! What are you going to do? Go through my post history and downvote every comment of mine going back months and months? The travesty.
what?? No im not going to do that. What a random thing to say..