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I'm a vegan and it ain't cheap. Although nowadays you can buy most vegan stuff from regular supermarket, they are still kind of marginal products and priced acc
by Yaggo 16y ago
I'm a vegan and it ain't cheap. Although nowadays you can buy most vegan stuff from regular supermarket, they are still kind of marginal products and priced accordingly. E.g. soya milk costs more than 2 €/L, while cow-milk is less than 1 euro (IIRC). This is in Finland, Europe.
The funny part is, that most of soya produced worldwide is used to feed the livestock, i.e. converted to meat at pretty bad efficiency rate. So, soya per se is not expensive, and I'm pretty sure soya products could be cheaper than their animal-based counterparts, if produced on a (comparable) mass-scale.
(Then again, the "cheap" concept used here assumes that the suffering of animals has no price, which is not true for most vegans/vegetarians.)