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[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 year ago (15 children)

This meme changed zero minds but made a few vegans feel pretty special.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

This meme really only makes sense in response to something. I've definitely heard many non-vegans complain that a vegan diet is restricting. Most of those people do only eat like 3 veggies ever.

That being said, it's a meme, not a philosophical treatise.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (11 children)

What three animals everyone else eating? We’ve got chickens, ducks, pigeons, quail, geese, cranes, turkeys, cows, deer, elk, moose, antelope, armadillo, beaver, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, lynx, bear, bison, caribou, goat, musk ox, pronghorn, sheep, muskrat, opossums, pigs, porcupine, rabbits, squirrels, pheasant, chukars, and tons of tasty insects to choose from.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You forgot the many difference species of fish/creatures-of-the-sea.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I didn’t even go there because of so many tasty options to list!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Tell me with a straight face that you eat a fucking squirrel

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

THAT'S the one you take issue with? Lol

In not sure anyone is eating muskrat or opossum outside West Virginia mountain hermits, people born before 1890, and anyone who self identifies as a trapper.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Squirrel are fantastic.

They’re the least “gamey” out of most small game, less so than rabbit, and taste something like leaner dark meat chicken.

Awesome in a crockpot substituted for chicken in most recipes. Can fancy up squirrel with a Sous vide to make squirrel confit bánh mì tacos, or keep it old school and make squirrel pot pie.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I grew up eating squirrel. Its very common in rural areas,

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I used to live in rural Kansas, so yes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm from Kentucky, friend. I've definitely had a squirrel or two in my day.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I mean tbf, the majority of Americans don't eat anything aside from chicken pork and beef, with the occasional turkey

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

True, but the majority of Americans also eat only a handful of plants, especially when counting brassica as one plant.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (122 children)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I don't care for debate so I'm just gonna share this tofu stir-fry recipe I like. I sub gochujang for the sambal oelek and skip the peanut garnish

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can eat both vegetables and dead animals at the same time. We call that a stew.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (29 children)

I call it a balanced diet... Who the fuck is exclusivly eating meat?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Is it vegan to sit on that high horse?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sorry, was I supposed to eat them while they are alive?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm French so I'd eat Kermit too.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (9 children)

A lot of people in the comments can't seem to make the distinction between what they have been fed since they were little and that they are used to, and what is good, or tastes good.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

There's more than three affordable animals lmao. Even if you count fish as one you still have crawfish, shrimp, fish, beef, chicken, pork, lamb, venison, turkey, etc. This also doesn't even account for the million ways to prepare the meats

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who's gonna fall for this ragebait?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

So you love plants? Name all plats then!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Man, here's the thing. I can't digest fermenting ogliosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols.

So no beans, mushrooms, onions garlic wheat rye or barley, apples, apricots, most berries, etc etc etc.

I also lead a "fairly" active lifestyle against my own wishes. So where does my protein come from? Meat. Chicken, eggs, and hard tofu.

If I cut meat from my diet, I'm eating three meals a day of hard tofu. What even is the point of life, then?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  1. There's more than three animals that you can eat.

  2. You don't even eat all 80000 of those plants.

  3. Plants make excellent side dishes, unfortunately I can't spend a third of my day shoveling quinoa and lentils by the bucket load just to get enough protein, so meat it is.

I cut beef out of my diet almost entirely, both because it's unsustainable for the ecology (cattle require more resources per pound than any other animal) and because red meat isn't as good for you. Also it's expensive.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is the fair and balanced take. Of course it would be better for the planet and our wallets to not eat meat, but our diet more or less requires some amount of meat for iron and protein; the responsible thing to do is to be selective about types and frequency. We don't need meat in every single meal or even every single day, but you've got a better chance of pitching meatless Monday to most Americans than full vegetarianism. And even a small reduction is better than no reduction.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"You ever plow a field? To plant the quinoa or sorghum or whatever the hell it is you eat. You kill everything on the ground and under it.

You kill every snake, every frog, every mouse, mole, vole, worm, quail… you kill them all.

So, I guess the only real question is: how cute does an animal have to be before you care if it dies to feed you?”

-John Dutton

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Cows and chickens gotta eat too, and that food is coming from fields as well.
By reducing meat consumption also way less critters will end up dying.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

80k plants and vegans only eat like 20 anyway

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

And half of them are actually just Brassica oleracea.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Maybe it goes to show you just how yummy those 3 animals are?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (10 children)

capitalism does not beget a wide range of meat for the average household. people eat "the same 3 dead animals" because it's what's affordable and even that's becoming less and less true

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I resent that. I eat more than 3 species of animals.

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