HadMatter [none/use name]

Fish was the last thing I cut out, and it basically just came down to the issue of over fishing oceans. Fish is kind of a pain to replace in your diet, because DHA and EPA fatty acids is pretty rare to find in the vegan world, and while your body does produce them itself, it requires you to be pretty careful with your diet, and too much omega 6 in your diet will leave you with insufficient DHA/EPA levels. I take a DHA/EPA supplement so I don’t need to worry about it as much.

Yea, I never said that I wouldn’t ever eat those thing again and kind of just started cutting things out bit by bit. It started with “I won’t buy cow products, but will eat them if other people buy them for a party or something” and I didn’t really consciously change anything, but at this point, it’s been almost two years since I’ve purposefully eaten an animal product, and I’ve barely noticed. I think the goal is to just do better than you are now. Don’t tell yourself you can never eat this thing again, just make your decisions about what to eat and what to buy with the animals and the environment in mind.

Cream cheese, sour cream, butter, mayo and shit like that were super easy. I can’t even really tell the difference.

Yea, this comes up a lot in the vegan sub, and I always make a point to tell people their health has to come first. Part of being healthy about being vegan is knowing that you’re getting everything you need from your diet, and if using a tracking app or something is going to fuck you up, definitely just do what you can to be healthy first and foremost.

…Is that really what you think people are talking about?

When they talk about raping cows, it’s because of this:

https://www.americancattlemen.com/articles/different-ai-techniques-and-method-fertility (Warning: It’s a picture of a farmer with his arm up a cow’s ass, for those of you who might be sensitive to that kind of thing.)

I would argue that eggs could be produced ethically, though they would likely be a lot more expensive to do so, but dairy is pretty indefensible, imo.

Tofu, beans, tempeh, and edamame are, in my experience, way cheaper per gram of protein than meat. It might depend on the location, though.

The only argument for hunting that I can come up with is population control, but even then, there are natural mechanisms for that.

I’m not sure what to tell you. It’s my position that less slave labor is better than more. This is not a difficult proposition.

Sort of. I think there’s an unfortunate reality that a lot of areas don’t really have the option to reintroduce apex predators at this point, and while it would be great to just never have allowed the degradation of the environment, but given that it already happened, I think there’s a question as to how ot deal with that situation, and there isn’t really a simple solution.