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  • I’ve been vegan for 10 years so I have no desire to eat lab grown meat. I don’t like the fact that they still are using tissues from living animals to create it and I have low trust in the supply chain to make me believe I’d be buying a genuine product. I’m also not really into eating saturated fat, so I avoid beyond and impossible because of the coconut oils. I’m in my mid 40s and my bloodwork is great so I’m not looking to start eating things 100 years of research proves is causal of cardio vascular disease which is the number one killer.

    For me, I grew up eating meat and just replaced it with beans, tofu, and yuba and in some occasions tvp. I personally eat a lot of moong dal blended into “egg” which we call in the vegan home cooks discord “Superior Mung EGG Alternative” or smeggma lol. I think we already have all the foods people need to be happy and healthy.























  • Veganism is about exploitation, not suffering. The standard definition of veganism (from the Vegan Society) is: “a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose.”

    Suffering is incredibly hard to measure or compare. One person’s suffering metric can lead to wildly different conclusions, including eugenics, forced sterilization, suicide and a bunch of ecofascist nonsense. Most vegans reject this, but the fact that they’re utilitarian conclusions that can be drawn from a reduction of suffering shows how slippery suffering-focused ethics can become. You can’t directly control how another being experiences suffering. That makes suffering a shaky foundation for universal moral rules.

    Exploitation, by contrast, is something you can control. You are the one doing the exploiting such as using an animal for food, clothing, entertainment, or labor. You can choose to stop. You don’t need to measure the inner experience of a cow or a chicken. You just need to ask: Am I treating this being as a resource? If yes, and you don’t have to, then stop. That is both actionable and measurable