• darq@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I think a solution is going to be less about changing minds, and more about changing incentives.

    Meat-free food should be cheaper and easier. Walking into a supermarket or convenience store, one should be greeted with affordable, tasty, plant-based meals. The more affordable and accessible we make plant-based meals, the more people are going to eat them. And showing people that they can taste just as good as meat-based meals, will mean people won’t immediately steer clear of them.

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      1 year ago

      It’d also be great if they were nutritionally equivalent.

      Plant based meats aren’t equivalent to animal meat on that front.

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        1 year ago

        Plant-based diets are usually superior, health-wise, to meat-based diets.

        There are a couple of nutrients that vegan diets at one point may have fell short in, like B12 and D being common examples, but at this point those are present in fortified vegan milks or breads.

        The only other ones I can think of off the top of my head are a fatty acid present in fish, that is easily supplemented. Or less essential nutrients like taurine, which are also easily supplemented if one finds that they really need higher levels.

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          1 year ago

          Exactly. Most livestock gets supplemented B12 anyway, since the ground/soil is too clean for it to occur naturally like in the past. Might as well cut out the middlemancow.

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          1 year ago

          It can be difficult to get enough protein with vegan options for people who aren’t knowledgeable about the options.

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            Not really. Protein is not something particularly difficult in a reasonably balanced vegan diet, for most people. There are plenty of dietary sources of protein in vegan cooking.

            Anybody requiring particularly high levels of protein is probably already supplementing it. Usually with vegan sources anyway.

            Of all the possible deficiencies in a vegan diet, protein is by far the least of people’s, already small, worries.

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              8 months ago

              I didn’t say they don’t, I said it’s difficult for people who don’t know how. You have to spend time on education when you go vegan.