I mean, I workout 8 or 10 times a week, super fit, 50 years old, haven’t had meat in 30 years. I can understand “it tastes good and I’m not willing to stop”, but this find alternatives stuff makes no sense.
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MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If vegans really cared about these things more than keeping the moral high ground, they’d be focusing on practical solutions like making lab-grown meat and plant-based substitutes so tasty and affordable that corporations are the ones that start pushing for them, so they can’t stop spending on costly cattle.
Mailloche@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Objection@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
We already have perfectly fine meat substitutes. Have you actually tried them? They’ve come a long way.
And lab grown meat will probably never be able to replace meat if people keep eating it at the same rate. Besides, there’s nothing I, as an individual, can do to advance the progress lab grown meat. I can help advance the progress of meat substitutes by… buying them instead of meat.
Cutting meat out of my life saves the lives of countless animals. That is a lot more practical than wishing upon a star that lab grown meat was more developed or economically viable.
vathecka@lemmy.radio 2 weeks ago
Meat substitutes are more expensive than meat because of corruption. Meat is subsidized to hell and back.
JamBandFan1996@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Pretty sure they’re working on that. Lab meat is supposed to be economically viable within 10 years
MrsVeggies@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Vegans do this.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Vegans are just voicing their truth. This “practical solutions” nonsense is just moving goal posts.
Vegan diets are perfectly sustainable for most people and eating large amounts of terrestrial mammals (as opposed to fish and bugs) is maybe a historically newer phenomena than we’d like to think, especially on a culture by culture basis (japan for instance has mostly subsisted on vegetables and seafood, as have most coastal cities historically)
The idea people have to beef every day or whatever is partly a product of the beef industry.