• pyre@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I’m not vegan but I think people are weird about bacon and pizza.

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      4 hours ago

      Are you someone who likes sweet stuff more than savoury? I’m not into sweet stuff and don’t get the fuss about chocolate, but a nice savoury salty or spicy thing does it for me.

      I guess everyone has different tastes.

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        3 hours ago

        no i like meat more than sweets but both bacon and pizza are overrated af. my taste is more middle eastern though, so lamb meat, kebab, hummus etc are more my kind of tastes.

        i didn’t wanna go much into detail about this on vegan comm but here we are.

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Oh sure, Everyone wants free love but the one time you pork pork, it’s suddenly wrong, what I and a consenting breakfast does in the bedroom or fridge is none of your business.

  • Jo Miran
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    1 day ago

    That screenshot is old enough to be in grade school.

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      5 hours ago

      I think this post must’ve been made at the tail end of “the narwhal bacons at midnight, lol holds up spork I’m so random” age of the Internet.

      I haven’t heard a peep about bacon in ages.

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      21 hours ago

      Was that around the time when they had bacon flavored everything and motherfuckers were getting bacon tattoos?

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        12 hours ago

        The Bacon Tuxedo was from 2007, and when that happened I remember thinking “Ok, this bacon thing has gone too far.” The Beggin Strips “bacon bacon bacon… It’s Bacon!!” commercial first aired in 1989.

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          11 hours ago

          I knew beggin’ strips were way before, but I remember a brief period where there were bacon mints, bacon soap, bacon soda, bacon candy, bacon tattoos…bacon everything. I want to say it wasn’t long after a whole bunch of folks were getting those mustache tattoos on their fingers but I’m getting older and my perception of time is warped.

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    21 hours ago

    I’ve heard there’s a seaweed that can be prepared to seem pretty close to bacon. I eat real bacon on occasion but I’d love to try the seaweed if I could ever find it.

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      16 hours ago

      As a non-vegan, sometimes alternatives are delicious. Like I drink oat milk because it’s way better than cow milk. I also love vegan breakfast sausage. Now I’m really curious about this seaweed

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        6 hours ago

        I’m a meatasaurus but I had veggie sausage in elementary school and one day decades later I needed it and I eat it all the time now it’s so good.

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        9 hours ago

        Sort of tangential, but I accidentally left out some nori seaweed sheets (like the super plain kind) on a humid day, so just tried toasting them a lil in the toaster oven, and it made them good.

        Perfect for a crunchy sushi handroll.

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    1 day ago

    Who said bacon? Where is it? Put it in my orifices

    (Edit) don’t ban me. It was shit talking that I figured was going to be reciprocated

  • ChlkDstTtr@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    As someone who is not vegan and does eat bacon on occasion, I approve this meme.

    I honestly think part of (but definitely not all of) the resistance against veganism is the perceived pushiness of it, similar to the pushiness some have around detesting anyone who eats meat. I’ve tried to be vegetarian several times and found that I personally don’t have the discipline to stick with it because of societal pressures and the difficulty in finding variety, but I know a lot of people that reject even that outright because of the “all or nothing” attitude that media and some groups/individuals presents around vegetarianism/veganism.

    Long story short, I’m proud of those who can do it, but I’m just not there yet. Maybe someday.

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      societal pressures and the difficulty in finding variety

      Are there specific things you’ve missed? And are you more referring to cook yourself or eating out?

      Sometimes, it’s just a lack of experience. Obviously, ‘all vegan food in the world’ is less variety on paper than ‘all food in the world’ but in my personal diet the variety of stuff I eat dramatically increased compared to the non-vegan past.

      In arts there’s the concept of creative limitation and from my perspective that is 100% applicable to food. Restricting yourself to plant based fosters your creativity to break with traditional recipes, try new combinations, replace X with Y or Z. I feel like I barely eat the same thing twice anymore.

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        I’m 100% with you on this. It sounds like copium, but creative limitation absolutely comes into play here. Before becoming pescetarian, vegetarian, and then eventually vegan, my diet was terrible and had almost no variety despite the fact that I like to cook for myself. If I went to a restaurant, it would be the one thing I knew I liked. At home, even though I could technically make essentially anything I wanted, there was an intense gravitational pull around meat and cheese keeping me in the same sets of dishes with little variety. It was generic burgers or pepperoni pizza or canned soup or basic burritos or pasta Alfredo/with meat sauce or paninis consisting of 90% meat/cheese and 10% everything else. If I was feeling “healthy”, it was either a type of meat with a baked potato and broccoli or a salad of iceberg lettuce with ranch, garlic croutons, bacon bits, and cranberries.

        Now, I try (and often end up loving) new foods almost on instinct including the “weird” ones; I’ve come to understand that so many foods I didn’t previously like were either prepared improperly or I wasn’t getting the right kind; the meals are almost inherently healthier; I use a huge variety of spices and sauces to make my meals different and vibrant every single day; and my dishes don’t revolve around essentially “a single type of meat with some ancillary stuff” or cheese and carbs.

        Nothing was physically stopping me from doing that on an omnivorous diet, but I personally would never have because I treated meat and cheese like a crutch.

      • jerkface@lemmy.caM
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        Antifreeze tastes good but no one thinks a diet that excludes antifreeze is restrictive. Because it’s poison!

        Of all the humans who will die this year, about ONE THIRD will die from coronary disease acquired from consuming animal products. And that’s just one way animal products kill us, they make up like five of the top six most common causes of death. It’s fucking antifreeze.

        People are shocked to find they enjoy food without antifreeze in it. Feel better after eating food that doesn’t have antifreeze in it. No fucking shit!

        It does not limit my culinary world one jot to exclude antifreeze from it. I was also forced to discover there was an entire universe of foods that I had been directed away from, that my culture had been induced to forget. All that weird stuff in the produce section and the farmer’s market, where I used to think, “Who eats that weird shit??” … Now I eat that weird shit! And it’s really good!! I have a whole new set of favourite foods, and now they are so cheap and healthy, I can eat them for every meal if I chose, and I would be more healthy than I was when consuming animal products.

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          10 hours ago

          Maybe people think you’re weird because you make weird analogies like comparing meat to antifreeze

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            It’s barely even an analogy. They are both poison. They both kill you.

            Consult Rule 5 before continuing. And consider actually engaging with the points you disagree with instead of just saying, effectively, “I disagree,” but snottier.

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              Poor exercise and sedentary lifestyle kills you. Not meat. Plenty of otherwise valid discussion and criticisms to be had instead of just making things up along with absurd comparisons that make you look insane.

              But that’s okay, if that’s enough to be actionable then I’ll be pretty able to accept that you just don’t like people calling you out and need a safe space from criticism.

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                Poor exercise and sedentary lifestyle kills you. Not meat.

                This is just so ignorant I have to come back to it. We’re specifically talking about heart attacks. You know, the widow maker. The thing that kills otherwise healthy men in the primes of their lives. Body builders, fire fighters, people who exercise every day. Sitting around not exercising does not cause you to have heart disease. Where the fuck is the plaque supposed to come from if you are not eating animal products?

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                  I’m not arguing that red meat is bad for you, first off - I’m not the person you were talking to.

                  That being said - exercise is absolutely connected to lower plaque build up. Actually, many of the comorbidities associated with eating red meat can be fought with exercise.

                  This idea that sedentary lifestyles are somehow supported and healthy by vegan diets strikes me as borderline ‘ADHD is a superpower’ bullshit.

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                But that’s okay, if that’s enough to be actionable then I’ll be pretty able to accept that you just don’t like people calling you out and need a safe space from criticism.

                This is disingenuous. If you go on a Star Trek forum and only want to talk about Star Wars, are moderators creating a “safe space” or are they just being fucking moderators? The rules are clearly posted. Don’t act so wounded.

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                Making it up, eh? Or are you sticking your head in the sand? lmgtfy

                https://duckduckgo.com/?q=all+cause+mortality+meat&ia=web

                I suppose you are unaware that there are entire cultures that do not suffer heart attacks. I suppose you are unaware that there is a direct causal relationship between those cultures starting to have heart attacks like Western cultures, and the adoption of Western animal product consumption habits. One third of humans who die this year will die of heart attacks that would not happen if they didn’t consume animal products. It tracks directly with animal consumption. The data is all there if you are brave enough to look. But I guess you need a safe space from facts.

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          Based on scientific evidence, animal products are not necessarily unhealthy for individual humans. As far as I know at least, the coronary deseases you’ve mentioned are mainly caused by red meat and saturated fats.

          Even though an average vegan diet is healthier than an average omnivore diet, you can eat perfectly healthy as an omnivore. Likewise, you can live of only junkfood as a vegan.

          Veganism from my perspective should be about stopping animal abuse and protecting the planet. If humanity keeps going as is, climate change will be what will lead to insane suffering to both animals and humans. Veganism is a key part to lower the impact of what’s ahead of us.

          Despite the importance of the topic, we should stick to the facts. Comparing every non-vegan diet to drinking anti-freeze is absolutely ridiculous.

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            There is no healthy amount of meat you can eat. Research “meat all cause mortality” on google scholar or pubmed. You’re effectively saying that there is a threshold of antifreeze consumption that is survivable. It’s never healthy.