As a vegan this was what i got from the post without additional commentary. Ive felt this way for a long time and while I’m glad people are vaguely aware of the environmental impact of data centers, i do wish they would be concerned enough to learn about other things negatively impacting the environment.
Because i don’t find the implication of eating sentient animals funny, least of all in a vegan space.
Cattle contribute to methane gasses through their burps and farts, as well as their shit fermentation ponds and maybe other things im forgetting.
Cattle, like cows, deer, sheep, and buffalo, belong to a specific group of animals known as ruminants. Characterized by their four-chambered organs, ruminants are able to rapidly have a large meal of grass and hay and later digest it by re-chewing it in their mouth. In the cattle’s stomach, a rumen microbe called methanogen converts the excess hydrogen and CO2 produced during the digestion of this high-fiber food to methane. This methane, called enteric methane, is expelled from the cattle’s body as belching or burping.
In 2022, methane from enteric fermentation accounted for 27.4% of total anthropogenic [caused by humans] methane emissions in the US and 3% of total gross emissions.
Source (links the EPA report these numbers come from)
There have been other studies on this topic I’ve read in the past but that was just first one that i came across
You are in a vegan community here though so maybe try engaging with the content and following the community rules instead of making jokes
You can also have SSL internal only domains without self signed certificates with something like acme.sh doing the DNS-01 challenge. It requires a domain registrar with an API but you be able to get the certificate and serve it with your reverse proxy so no need to manage your self signed certs on every device.
You can also get a wildcard cert so you dont need to force a reissue every time you set up a new service
There’s listenbrainz if you scrobble music. Can discover music from there or some projects might try to do Playlist recommendations. navidrome has a plugin that does this though i haven’t tried it because i don’t scrobble to external services
Their chart covers licensing and lists roon as closed source. I don’t think this is intended to be one of the “awesome” FOSS lists
Looking at indianapolis this is laughably bad:
Joella’s Hot Chicken offers a unique twist on Southern comfort food with a fully vegan menu that includes flavorful plant-based chicken and house-made sauces.
Um… no. Not fully vegan. I think they briefly had one option but idk if that’s still a thing, not seeing it on the menu.
Jasmine Thai Restaurant
🌿 100% Vegan
Delight in an array of authentic Thai flavors with a fully vegan menu at Jasmine Thai Restaurant.
… the picture has shrimp in it, so also not 100% vegan
10th street diner - vegan friendly
This is one of the few vegan only restaurants in the city and is being done dirty here. There’s no option to report it as actually 100% vegan.
Anyway, the project seems neat and could be useful in the future. When i say laughably bad im referring specifically to the AI model being used to categorize these restaurants. I can only assume it was an AI mislabeling these obvious mistakes
What about insects? They are animals.
Lab grown meat / cloned cells are still initially extracted from animals. There is inherent exploitation and/or harm done to the animals. Some vegans may believe this utilitarian approach is ok. I do not.
Veganism isn’t a diet though. It is a way of life aimed towards excluding consumption of things that result in animal cruelty, exploitation, or death.
I’m not vegan because the vegan cheese is good. I’m vegan because i value life and, among many reasons, the dairy industry is atrocious.
You say if they can’t make the vegan cheese taste better then don’t bother, which is also problematic. The OP talks about how it is aimed to be more sustainable and mentions current vegan cheeses might use palm oil. Palm oil can be vegan if ethically sourced but the problem with the industry is that is not sustainable and leads to deforestation.
But even if you are not vegan, choosing to eat non-meat and non dairy alternative foods for even some of your meals can have a positive impact on the environment and your health.
Not necessarily, palm oil itself can be vegan since it is plant derived, but the practices to extract it most often are not vegan. There are many things that aren’t vegan that many people wouldn’t think of unless they’re really questioning the production of what they consume. Another good example is that a lot of beers are made with animal byproducts as part of the processing such as fining agents. If you just look at the label you wouldn’t know it’s not vegan unless you know to ask the manufacturer about their process. The same would apply to palm oil since some is supposedly sourced ethically and sustainably. Personally i avoid it because i think a lot of places green wash their process and it is easier to just avoid it than to verify if the palm oil was really ethically/sustainably sourced or not.
There’s many more examples of “gotchas” like this that new vegans with good intentions may not know about. It’s a learning curve. When i was early on in my journey there was a lot of things i didn’t really understand but i just do my best and continually learn.
Sure, and many vegans do end up eating less ultra processed foods. But my point is that eating healthier isn’t what being vegan is about. Vegan isn’t a diet like many people think. It’s a way of life to reduce and eliminate harm to animals
The spirit of veganism is excluding consumption of things that result in animal cruelty, exploitation, or death. There is no requirement to avoid ultra-processed foods
Two things can make Oreos not vegan:
Neat. It’ll be interesting to see the data they publish in 6 months and how much better the efficiency can be with two functional sails.
To the people who downvote our community, i also explained this concept of animal agriculture requiring more land because of the ecological pyramid: https://slrpnk.net/comment/23745702
You do not necessarily have to eliminate all meat, but reducing or eliminating your meat consumption is imo the biggest impact an individual person can make to help the environment.