No but like seriously, why are vegan and vegetarian options always MORE expensive at restaurants. Whenever I cook my self, the meat is BY FAR the most expensive part of any meal. Meanwhile stuff like soy strips are DIRT CHEAP, not to mention they last basically forever!

The canteen I go to for lunch actually sells the meatless meals for 2/3 of the price, always a taunting reminder. Like hell yea, that’s how ya convert me!

  • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@lemmy.today
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    16 days ago

    Ironically, as a toddler, my mom tried offering a fair bit of money (for the time for a toddler, so probably like $20 or $100) to try to get me to eat meat and I still refused. Taste, texture, smell or presentation was icky so nty. Weird people pay extra for it.

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        15 days ago

        Was gonna say, I remember when I though 5 bucks was a lot, and I was probably like 8 or 10.

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      16 days ago

      Meat always tasted gross to me.

      I grimaced every-time as a kid as I ate chicken nuggets because there were weird bits inside of them.

      But now with vegan nuggets, I don’t find those weird bits anymore.

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      15 days ago

      Taste, texture, smell or presentation was icky so nty.

      Side note, but I think that’s a huge part of the disconnect between vegans and meat-eaters. A lot of vegans for whatever reason just never liked meat in the first place, so they think it’s the easiest thing in the world to give it up and are genuinely baffled why people keep eating meat.

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        15 days ago

        Nah this is just cope. Vegans come from all walks of life.

        Ease of doing something or degree of missing it doesn’t really tip the moral scales much when compared to the yawning abyss of horror that is farming. Plenty of us loved all the hedonistic pleasures of carnism, just once you realise what you’re doing it’s completely indefensible and change is required.