4% compared to 2%
i am not a vegan but if this means more interesting recipes then it's a W
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Hell, I'm not vegan (or vegetarian), but I'm almost 100% sure I eat much less meat than Millennials and Boomers did when they were in my wage and age bracket.
yeah, meat consumption should be about "kg of meat eaten/(person*year)" instead of "percentage of people who eat meat".
because you can have a society where 50% of people eat meat and eat like 100 kg of it per year or you can have a society where 50% of people eat meat and eat 30 kg of it per year, makes a lot of difference.
Same. Growing up, it was the main. Now, it's part of a dish. Instead of 1/2 meat, and 1/2 sides, the meat is about 1/5, and 4/5 sides. Not completely meatless, but much better than when I was younger.
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All those food recalls in the last two decades has made me eat more vegetables, or find meat alternatives.
Also, rising prices. It's like $10 a lb for quality burger meat. Or I can buy vegetarian burgers.
dont forget whats going on with the fda lol its a risk but i sous vide so theres practically zero risk
It's also bad data analysis, young people outgrow veganism. There is nothing in the base study that indicates any change in this trend.
It’s nice to see Gen Z getting more qualitatively neutral headline language. Millennials would’ve been “killing the meat industry.”
Also, this is really good. While we don’t all need to become total vegans, reducing the number of domesticated animals would have a significantly positive impact on both the environment and the quality of those animals’ lives.
While we don’t all need to become total vegans, reducing the number of domesticated animals would have a significantly positive impact on both the environment and the quality of those animals’ lives.
This is where I'm at. Half-assed vegetarian. I don't buy meat but if someone serves it at a dinner I don't refuse to eat. Baby steps. It's making progress without the shock of an abrupt change all at once.
Yeah I turned meat into a “special occasion” food, and it was way easier than I thought once I got over the perfectionism. Animal products are a lot easier to reduce than completely eliminate, but every little bit helps.
This. This is the healthiest take.
The healthiest take is to eat the best quality food you can afford that isn't ultra processed.
Vegan food can be slop - see beyond meat, meat substitutes, lab grown meat etc. Heck, even South Park made an episode about it.
(I know you meant "the healthiest take in the vegan-nonvegan dichotomy", but I just couldn't help myself, tee hee)
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Over >50% of the space humans occupy is for agriculture. 3/4 of that space is dedicated to livestock/feed.
Recently I learned that plants like Bambara Nuts (africa) and Water Lentils (duckweed) have complete amino complexes and b12. They're probably not the only ones either.
There's also many pest/drought resistant perennial crops that are nitrogen/nutrient fixers that eliminate the need for fertilizers and pesticides.
I expect that the impending climate induced supply chain collapse of global agriculture will force people to return to these more ancestral, and arguably superior, food sources.
Over >50% of the space humans occupy is for agriculture
i think it's more like >90%.
i.e. of the area that is used (Agriculture, Urban and Built-up Land),
- urban and built-up land is 1m km²,
- agriculture is 48m km²,
so agriculture is 48 of 49 millions km² used, that's 98%. The remaining 2% are for streets and housing.
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Love to see it!
Interesting. I've noticed the hype dying down in recent years and some of my favorite vegan products disappearing off the shelves or changing recipe and then dying a slow painful death. I blamed it on people and companies treating it as just a fad, so reporting that it's still a thing people do is surprising to me.
It's true there are still more vegan products than before, but the dedicated sections in my local supermarkets are tiny.
Subsidies for the animal agriculture industry are still lopsided against veganism, and the Far Right escalation in social media awarded by algorithms favors carnism over veganism.
I like to think that veganism is more of a grass roots (pun intended) movement focused on whole foods in favor of processed foods.
All these things may contribute to veganism's seeming decline in the last few years, although I may be wrong (and that decline may just be a lack of reporting)
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I absolutely misread that title as vampirism and it had me confused for a solid 15 seconds
Vegans rise up! Nobody in any Imperial Core countries should have to eat animals, as there are so many plant-based options today. It's so easy these days, and I'm happy to say that my family's Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners this year were and will be mostly vegan!
I hope all of this Gen Z momentum translates into political will on the policy level, where we see more and more animal sanctuaries both on and off shore.
But of course our impact doesn't just stop at the Imperial Core. We need a global movement of veganism if we should ever want to change what we do to the natural world
Agreed, JOIN US
Yay! 🥕🐇
highest rate of veganism in history
India says hello
The massive dairy industry with a stranglehold on Indian culture and politics says hello.
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