this makes the need for lemmy to add the ability for community owners to move communities to different servers all the more necessary
Veganism is unhealthy because of all the mental damage I get talking to people about it online
Maybe don't come into a vegan community then if it makes your cognitive dissonance hurt
Tbf, I thought their comment was funny as fuck and upvoted it. I actually can't tell based on their comment if they're vegan or antivegan, which makes it funnier.
It gets a "based as hell I guess" seal of approval from me.
I can only speak for myself but I appreciate the effort. Realistically I don't have high hopes for the longevity of this comm. I assume one or another of the antivegan admins will continue to find whatever flimsy reason to shut down discussions that make them unhappy.
I strongly recommend anyone interested in reading about veganism on the fediverse check out the comms on vegantheoryclub or hexbear. If your server doesn't federate (e.g. world) make an account on one that does. Both of those places are administrated by vegans and suck a lot less.
Meanwhile Lemmy.World moderator Rooki:
To be honest linking something like meat to death of people is like saying everybody that breathed air died.
correlation != causation
It's so genuinely distressing to me that such an absurd comment got nearly even upvotes and downvotes. I swear that the average carnist is so far in denial that they'll upvote even the most insane, goalpost-moving non-arguments to preserve the industry-brainwashed fantasy they live in where vegans are at any given time a gram of protein away from collapsing like a cartoon skeleton. You absolutely know that if a plant-based diet had been in that headline as being positively correlated with T2D (it isn't, as shown above) instead of meat, Rooki's response wouldn't have been "well geez we're all going to die anyway so why does it matter?" And if it was (at which point, good on them for consistency, I guess?), it would've been a 25-to-1 downvote ratio with omnis and vegans alike piling on and mocking it.
This reminds me of theoretical physicist Angela Collier talking about crackpots who send her their rebuttals to general relativity etc., analogizing them to someone walking into a restaurant, calling the head chef a fraud who can't cook, saying their food is much better, and presenting the chef with a takeout box full of Play Doh to eat as proof. That is to say that it's not even just an incorrect counterargument; it's so asinine that it's a complete non sequitur not even rising to a counterargument. Can LW really add peer-reviewed scientific information as a requirement to their ToS when this is who's evaluating its merits?
Rooki is a science denier - confirmed.
Unfortunately, running or managing a Lemmy instance doesn't come with requirements to read science.
Hi https://lemmy.world/u/TheTechnician27 (I don't know how to tag users, sorry), I just wanted to point out that one of your links is broken:
" * There are multiple benefits of a vegan or vegetarian diet [six listed, too long to quote here] in the management of CKD [...] —Journal of Renal Nutrition (2019) "
This sends us to a broken link:
https://www.jrnjournal.org/article/S1051-2276(19
Here is the fixed link I believe: https://www.jrnjournal.org/article/S1051-2276(19)30026-3/fulltext
Hope that helps, and to make it easier to find and correct if you want to, the broken link in your post is the 15th from the top, or 10th from the bottom, I think. :)
You can tag people like this: @[email protected]
I don't know. I am not vegan but I am Vegetarian(I can't live without Milk, Sorry). I am healthy as fuck.
"Milk" is the one that surprises me the most, simply because I believe plant milk trounces dairy milk in basically every aspect except price (which is in my experience improving but exists due to massive subsidies toward the dairy industry that plant milk doesn't ever receive, not its own intrinsic merits. Even just taking the subsidies away would reverse this, and if the subsidies flipped, the difference would be enormous). You definitely can live without it, and it's even a lot better in most respects.
- The nutritional profile of plant milk is generally better. Wheras it lacks the ~8g of protein per ~250 mL that typical dairy milk has (you can get versions fortified with 8g protein, though, if you want), it makes up for it by being free of sugar (if you get unsweetened) compared to the typical 8–12g of lactose; having no lactose which can ferment in people with intolerance (plenty of people only realize they were intolerant after they stop drinking milk and no longer feel symptomatic); having substantially fewer calories; and having no or extremely minimal saturated fat and cholesterol (the fats plant milks do tend to have are very healthy mono- and polyunsaturated ones). Almond milk – by far the most common – has considerably more calcium (~35–45% compared to ~20–30%) and Vitamin D (~35% compared with ~20–25%) per serving than dairy milk. Whereas dairy milk is fortified with Vitamin D3, plant milk is fortified with D2; the mechanism for metabolizing the calcium is less efficient in D2 than D3, so this difference is offset to some extent. Oat milk more closely aligns with typical dairy milk calcium and Vitamin D contents, so it's slightly less nutritious than dairy milk in this respect. Plant milk is generally also fortified with micronutrients such as Vitamins A, B2, and B12 to meet or exceed what dairy milk typically contains. That 8g of protein can easily be made up for elsewhere, as you only need around 0.8g per day per kilogram that you weigh (around 55g in a 70kg adult).
- Plant milk takes months to go bad, whereas dairy milk that hasn't been ultrapasteurized (at which point it becomes as expensive as or even more expensive than plant milk and often still has a somewhat shorter shelf life) maybe lasts two weeks from the date of purchase. This means that you can easily stockpile it between sales (I often keep around 15L) and it won't go bad.
- Plant milk has an absolute ton of variety. There's almond, soy, coconut, oat, cashew, rice, peanut, macadamia, pea, banana, pumpkin seed, pistachio (this one's one of the wildest beverages I've ever seen; it's like $10 a liter lmao), etc. You can make any of these at home and even fortify it with relative ease and for pretty cheap if you're so inclined, although it's not my preferred choice just because I like the consistent experience that grocery store milk offers. Within these categories, pretty much all of them have sweetened, unsweetened, chocolate, vanilla, and vanilla unsweetened, while the main ones like almond and oat milk tend to have much more exotic varieties like banana, matcha, pumpkin spice, nog, hot chocolate, and extra creamy. And even then, different brands will offer different experiences. The only one that's absent is strawberry, and it vexes me to this day. You can make it on your own, but I have never in my life seen a single strawberry plant milk sold in a grocery store. Do I like strawberry milk? No. Do I think it's weird that I've never seen a company experiment with it? Absolutely. So I guess if you specifically can't live without grocery store strawberry milk, you can ignore this entire point. Get on it, plant milk companies.
- Every type of plant milk is better in every conceivable way for the environment.
- Every type of plant milk is better in every conceivable way for animal welfare.
- Completely subjective, but dairy milk has this weird, slightly sour taste that I never liked growing up that makes plant-based milks taste so much more clean and refreshing to me.
Thanks for this writeup. But for me It's not about nutrition I just love Dairy Products and Sweets(I know non-vegan can say the same for Meat and stuff). In my country no one tried making Sweets with Plant based milk(I will experiment in future see if it's taste good or not). Also, Just for fact I buy milk directly from a nearby cow farm.
Congrats you're still supporting the raping of cows, the separation of a mother and child, and the killing of calves.
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