So I recently started and have been struggling to figure out the right amount of veggies to get without them going bad before I get to eating them. Are there any preservation tips or buying strategies you guys have used to prevent this? Also any other tips other than just plain preservation are welcome too since I am pretty new to this way of eating.

I am a Marxist and a materialist. Ideas and beliefs don't arise ex nihilo. They emerge to fit the material reality in which they exist. What are the material realities that lead to carnism? I would argue that there are only two that matter:

1. "I benefit from objectifying these animals."
2. "These animals are too weak to stop me from objectifying them."

Boil away the justifications, strip away the decorum, and this is what you get. But what if that person enters a situation where they benefit from objectifying me? What if I'm too weak to stop them? What barrier prevents them from doing so? My intelligence? My capacity for suffering? Their empathy and goodwill? None of that saves cattle, or pigs, or chickens. Why would it save me? I'm not foolish enough to think I'm special.

And look, survival situations are one thing. If you kill and eat an animal because the alternative is starvation, you have decided that the animal's life is worth less than your life. If someone decided that my life was worth less than their life, and a situation came up where they had to act on that decision, I wouldn't begrudge it. I wouldn't like it, I'd fight it, but I wouldn't begrudge it. The thought of someone deciding my life is worth less than their pleasure, though? Turns my blood to fucking ice.

Would love some vegan breakfast options that feel breakfasty (USian). Avacado toast is great but avacados can be pretty pricey and I can't eat that every day. Currently I just have a bunch of cashews in the morning and while I do love cashews I want something that has the right vibes and cashews just don't.

Folks...it's good! I didn't think I was going to like it since peas rank lower on my fav veggie list, but the Sicilian style split pea was banging. Very hearty and tasty with potatoes and pasta in it, along with carrot chunks. Will def. get again for the perfect lunch.

My therapist informed me I cant do anything vegan diet because its a "restrictive" diet and im diagnosed with anorexia. Currently in the psychward, told I can do it in residential but for two weeks I cant. Any advice on coping with this? ive been homeless and not eating and in an hour there will be meat staring at me.

lorem ipsem dolor (I posted in the wrong comm)

They banned all vegan posting lmao

Relatives love wasting food, and I usually wait until the last second to take it and eat it, I really hate it, and nagging them hasn't changed anything.

So what's your opinion on this? Or what do you do?

This post has been getting a lot of attention from both vegans and non-vegans, but it's quite obviously bullshit. This video covers it pretty well.

This was on a post asking "Is veganism apolitical?" or something like that, I believe. This is an older picture someone else sent me.

Here is a follow-up comment she made after someone asked her if she is vegan:

As you may or may not know, there are proposals to change/update the hexbear CoC here. This is an extension of the original discussion thread here.

The original CoC states:

Animal Liberation is essential to any leftist movement, including platforms like Hexbear. Volunteers, comments, and posts, should not be anti-vegan, although users and volunteers are not required to be vegan.

Any pictures of food containing animal products, including but not limited to meat, cheese, or egg, must be tagged nsfw along with food discussion content warnings (CW: Food).

The question I would like to pose to this community is:

1. Should this change or be updated?
2. If so, what are a couple sentences and/or points that should replace it?

I made a draft using placeholder text based on the original CoC line:

Animal liberation is part of the struggle against capitalism. While we don't require everyone on hexbear be vegan, we do require everyone to observe basic decency. Users are required to use content warnings on any post, site-wide, that contains animal abuse content. This includes food and animal products.

• Do not debate about animal abuse.
• Do not antagonize vegans.
• Do not test this guideline or rule by posting increasingly abstract pictures of food or animal products.
• Do not pass off pictures of animal products as vegan, do not pass off pictures of vegan food as animal products.

Failure to use content warnings properly or failing to observe the principles of animal liberation can result in your post being removed and/or further moderator action.

However, I do not think this should be the final text. I would much rather this community choose something that you feel better represents you. Users who contribute will be cited as contributors in the draft of the updated CoC. I will share a summary of the results in the discussion thread here.

How does veganism propose we handle invasive species? Murder is the least ideal option but I know that in many cases this is considered best practice. Is it okay to eat an invasive species if they "have to" be killed anyway or is it preferable to leave their nutrients in the ecosystem they have invaded? These invasive species are usually our fault and would do far more harm to animals as a whole if left alone but does that give us the right to murder them?

I also have another question about hunting. I grew up in the American south where hunting deer is very common. I was always told that the hunt was necessary because if we did not reduce their population it would grow until it became unsustainable. At which point they would starve and do significant harm to the native ecosystem. How true is all this?

"You vegans only know about animals from Disney movies. If you actually interacted with animals, you'd see they're not special and that killing them's no big deal"

"I've developed a crippling alcohol addiction to cope with the psychic toll of killing animals hour after hour, day after day"

It is published in booklet format, lmk if I should figure out how to slice it to be normal

Switched about a month ago, bought vitamin supplement and feeling great, was planning on going vegan for a long time. Thought it's made me feel depressed about the state of the world and guilty bout not doing it earlier because it's been so easy. I knew about the horrible way humans treat animals but before I guess I had some cognitive dissonance switch and now that it's gone I'm just feeling sad and powerless.