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Veganism is as easy as this.

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Not really. Most green dietary patterns conclude that even 1 egg per day may already be too much.

The EAT-Lancet commission's Planetary Diet sets the target for egg consumption at 19 calories per day. A single medium egg contains around 70 calories already. This means that according to this research, the optimal amount of eggs you can eat is 1/3 of an egg per day. This calculation takes into account eating other animal products, and an intake of 2500 kcal/day, and doesn't take into account other sources of eggs (or other animal products) such as from pastries, sauces, breads, pastas, processed foods, etc.

You can potentially eat an egg a day while still matching the targets for the planetary diet, but that would mean practically no other animal products in your diet at all.

When I say animal products, I mean animal products, not just meat. The amount of those you can eat while maintaining an environmentally friendly diet is absolutely minuscule. We tend to vastly underestimate the environmental footprint of animal products, while the reality is that in the practice eating sustainably means eating almost entirely vegan with very few exceptions.

My biggest pet peeve about sustainability discourse is that, yeah, a handful of companies are fucking us all over, and yeah, we need fundamental change coming from the government. But also you need to understand that you can't have both things:

You can't have zero single use plastic and only sustainable materials and expect to be able to afford brand new clothes every month.

You can't have an increase in workers rights protections and expect to still get things you order online delivered to your house in a couple of days.

You can't have meat production reduced to the point where it's not environmental destructive and expect to be eating meat more than a couple times a week at most.

We NEED big scale change but that WILL significantly affect your lifestyle. You need to stop living in a fantasy world where fast fashion prices or eating animal products daily can ever coexist with sustainability.

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anti-vegan posts make me feel genuinely insane "lol they think calves get killed for cheese" do you not know where your food comes from??? where your ingredients come from??? how food is produced???? rennet is used in multiple cheeses. rennet comes from the stomachs of calves. those calves have to be slaughtered to extract the rennet. calves are killed to make cheese. that is just a fact of food production. i feel like im going insane.

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maybe I’m a no fun bitch but I always find it ironic that tumblr insists that veganism and vegetarianism is actually just as bad for the environment and also useless while reblogging uwu soft baby posts patting themselves on the back about not smashing a spider in their house. like you can’t have it both ways babe.

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for some reason couldn't reblog the post that criticized vegans for not engaging in so called "symbiotic" relationships with non human animals, and I'm going to guess they meant like wool and what not and I just want all non-vegans to ask themselves if the same dynamic existed between two human parties, would you not immediately understand that it is exploitive? And I mean exactly the same. A lot of leftists on here can see how corporations exploit laborers who work just 40 hours a week but can't see how non human animals that are bred, genetically engineered, kept in a place against their will, their bodies used--all for profit is a form exploitation.

ask yourself too, that if there is a profit motivation, is there any guarantee that these so-called 'ethical' manufacturers will not eek out as much profit as they can which is always at a detriment to the animal? much in the same way that profit motivation in every other facet of capitalism almost ALWAYS leads to exploitation if allowed? they do it in every other facet of life what makes you think they won't do it to a sheep? What makes you think that suddenly they will act different?

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so insanely hypocritical of non-vegans to be mad at peta's kill shelters while they support the industries that kill billions of sentient beings each year. they don't even care about animals it's all so transparent

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So true, I can do anything I want to people as long as I personally like to eat them afterwards :)

btw you’re religion doesn't exempt you from the morally condemnable action that is (directly or indirectly) murdering and consuming living creatures

I’m so tired of this "god put animals on the earth for man to eat" argument you are killing a living fucking being and that's on you

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"My beliefs allows me to kill people indiscriminately so it's totally fine guys 😇"

btw you’re religion doesn't exempt you from the morally condemnable action that is (directly or indirectly) murdering and consuming living creatures

I’m so tired of this "god put animals on the earth for man to eat" argument you are killing a living fucking being and that's on you

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'eating meat is a personal choice and u cannot stop me'

I cant stop you, but eating meat is not a personal choice. No animal chose to be killed. No cow chose to separate them from their child.

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saw a post saying how we demonize dairy even tho its cool that we found a way to get animal nutrients without killing the animal. and like yah technically but you guys do know they kill the cow right. they kill the cow anyways. maybe if u have your own farm where you take good care of your cows and let them live fulfilling lives and die natural deaths but in the Real World they fucking slaughter those cows.

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My biggest pet peeve about sustainability discourse is that, yeah, a handful of companies are fucking us all over, and yeah, we need fundamental change coming from the government. But also you need to understand that you can't have both things:

You can't have zero single use plastic and only sustainable materials and expect to be able to afford brand new clothes every month.

You can't have an increase in workers rights protections and expect to still get things you order online delivered to your house in a couple of days.

You can't have meat production reduced to the point where it's not environmental destructive and expect to be eating meat more than a couple times a week at most.

We NEED big scale change but that WILL significantly affect your lifestyle. You need to stop living in a fantasy world where fast fashion prices or eating animal products daily can ever coexist with sustainability.

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Within the Qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌ nation, both sides in the whaling argument endorsed the significance of human-whale relations and of cultural continuity and renewal but differed strongly on how to express these values. The Elders’ letter, for example, proposed whale watching as “an alternative we support” (Anderson et al., 2012, para 11). Elder Alberta “Binki” Thompson, a signatory to the letter, became a spokesperson for those opposing the hunt, appealing to the value of reciprocity. “It’s time to repay the whales for what they gave to us in the past.” Thompson was quoted. “Now is the time to protect them, not to kill them” (Chew, 2012, para 20).

"Indigenous Veganism", Margaret Robinson

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I find it very sad that so many kids, when they start expressing compassion for animals and reason that eating their meat/products from their bodies is wrong, are taught by caregivers that kindness is wrong when it inconveniences others and caring so much for other living beings is childish and naive, because trying your best to do less harm will make others feel bad about their actions, and I can't help but feel that's where it starts for a lot of people who then grow up to believe that their pleasure, convenience, comfort and conformity is worth it even if others have to suffer for it.

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Just found out a store's own label dark chocolate I have been buying since forever is actually not vegan because one of the sweeteners it uses is derived from lactose wtf. I've been vegan for almost 9 years and it had never occurred to me that artificial sweeteners could be non-vegan...

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Oh, you eat animal products? Isn't it hard? Where do you get your fiber? Do you take supplements? Yikes, I could never do that. I had to buy organic free range meat and eggs for someone who's on an animal product diet once and it was sooo expensive, it's definitely only something for rich people haha. My uncle was on a strict animal product diet, you know? Yeah, he died. Colon cancer. It's a risky thing, this trend, you have to know what you're doing and really make sure you get proper nutrition, but most people go on it thinking it'll make them healthy but then they just eat junk food and wonder why they feel bad and are constipated all the time. Not everyone has the time and energy to learn how to safely prepare meat, and it's so bland too! Do you ever crave a tasty, well-seasoned seitan steak? I actually tried cow's milk once, it was so weird, I'd rather have the real stuff, straight from the plant like nature intended. My mom was on a carnivore diet for 3 months and she felt so bad, her doctor actually told her to stop. It's definitely not for everyone, but I guess you have your reasons. Did you know it's like really bad for the environment? Yeah, uses lots of water, poisons lakes with poo, and they torture the animals to death and workers get PTSD from it. People think "animal based" means natural but actually most of it comes from factory farms. Just thought you should know, you probably didn't think of that when you decided to start this diet. I could never deny myself plants like that, must take a lot of restraint. Most people don't last long. Are you sure you don't want the chickpea curry? Not even a little bit? Haha, just teasing, you meat eaters are so sensitive.

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people on tumbler dot corn will be like "you really think veganism will change anything? that's such bourgeois thinking, which pales in effectiveness to my revolutionary strategy: doing nothing"