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Eat Less Meat Is Message for Rich World in Food’s First Net Zero Plan (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

living vegan has never been easier!

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I just stopped eating all together. I’ve never had as much disposable income in my

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

In your... What? You stopped. Sir? Sir?

[–] TheWanderer@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

R.I.P Sir/Madam Spacecowboy. You will be missed. We will remember your valiant hunger strike (not that they had a choice anyway).

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Some people unfortunately do not have access to good vegan options. That being said, people can reduce their consumption of red meat significantly and make an impact.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 23 points 11 months ago (62 children)

vegan options? like produce, grains, and legumes? are you in a food desert yourself?
the "vegan options" you're referring to are at the supermarket, and they are the cheapest items in there.

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[–] currentbias@open-source-eschaton.net 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

@hansl @ElcaineVolta most people have access to beans, rice, and canned vegetables. If you can find nutritional yeast, then you're really in business

Vegan food is not some special, hard-to-access category of food, it's just food without animals. A lot of what you already eat is probably accidentally vegan: https://www.reddit.com/r/accidentallyvegan

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

Either you live in the west where you get vegan options right in the store.

Or you don't in which case meat isn't naturalised as much and you have plenty of vegan dishes right from the get go.