Virtually every human activity can be linked to material suffering of other organisms. It's impossible to exist within modern society and not contribute to it. I say this not as a an exercise in nihilism, but to point out that isolating focus to a single issue is an oversimplification of ethical existence. Same reason that "single issue" voters are so maligned.
Every single vegan knows this. The point is to reduce the amount of suffering we create, and not murdering tens of billions of land mammals and uncountable sea animals every year, in the process significantly increasing environmental destruction and public health crises, at the cost of taste preferences and a little convenience is such a simple but powerful thing we can do that it is practically a moral baseline.
I agree with that, but isolating a single issue as a means of evangelizing a cause just causes people to use it an excuse to ignore something entirely. Of course, if the goal is just to pass judgement and not get people to make material progress to an ultimate goal, then go right ahead.
Veganism is an ethical position, health has little to nothing to do with it (though many people first try a plant-based diet for health reasons, of course). There is mixed research on your question from a personal health standpoint, but I would point out that the pollution created by the dairy industry affects public health, zoonotic diseases like coronavirus would be even less common in a vegan than vegetarian world, and we would create less antibiotic-resistant bacteria if we stopped animal agriculture completely rather than just partially (80% of antibiotics are fed to animals).
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Nobody said anything about ignoring other issues. Luckily we can, for example, support gay rights, oppose fossil fuels and march against police brutality while not murdering animals for a snack.
Are you familiar with Perfect Day, the company making animal-free dairy protein? I've been following them since 2014, and I was actually surprised to catch ice cream using their protein in my local grocery within the past week with no fanfare - tastes like dairy-dairy. It's just ice cream right now, but it feels like a huge step. Milk and cheese might be coming up soon.
I've never heard of them before. I don't really eat ice cream, so I don't look in that aisle much. I also grocery shop at either Walmart or Trader Joe's, and neither are likely to carry anything like that any time soon
We murder animals when we deny them habitat by using trees to pick broccoli out our teeth. We erode natural habitats to send electrons the equivalents of thousands of miles so we can laugh at a dancing Chihuahua. Any human activity can be steeped in frivolous language.
I wouldn't be surprised. Some chains like Freshii already lean into a healthy/green theme.
I haven't tried N!cks which my grocery store has, so I'll definitely give that a go. I'm a big fan of Eclipse Food's products in the ice cream space. Those have the texture down *perfectly*. They don't taste like *cream* but you wouldn't notice that when you're eating their chocolate or cookie variants. Really good stuff I'd recommend.
I did it for about 3 months. Felt like garbage. Like something was missing.
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I've been hearing a lot of good things about seitan. I have Upton's chorizo in my freezer right now because of that. I'll try it with my eggs tomorrow.
Same here. If we can get to a point where we just replace ground beef we replace nearly 80% of the used beef supply same goes for dairy. It was interesting to learn something like 70-80% of milk goes to powdered milk products, so producing alternatives to just two animal products is world changing levels and the most important.
When I eat a vegan menu for weeks at a time the thing I miss more than meat is cheese and eggs tbh. Eggs are so quick to whip up for breakfast and vegan cheeses are passable at best.
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Think of it like this: You have to grow orders of magnitude more crops to generate one pound of beef from a cow than to make one pound of plant based meat, just from the fact you have to feed that cow for at least a year and a half before you can slaughter it for beef.
Beyond makes breakfast sausage, no? I know I've seen it a few times.
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