> It may be different in different parts of the world, but where I'm from vegans tend to be middle-class/upper-class people who are blissfully unaware of how cl

> It may be different in different parts of the world, but where I'm from vegans tend to be middle-class/upper-class people who are blissfully unaware of how class barriers dictate the way you eat. I disagree: my mother spent her entire life living with the minimum wage or less. She always had a very balanced diet, eating mostly veggie organic food, often from the farmer market. Several reasons: - education. Our current generation has zero food education. They have no idea how to cook, choose a product, where to buy stuff, etc. Things like dried beans/peas, full grain rice, sunflower seeds, whole potatoes, green leafs, tomatoes, brassicaceaes, onions, apples, bananas and carrots can all be obtained at a fair price. You can cover a lot with those. - life choices. She lives in the country side, not in a city. Doesn't have a smartphone or a TV. She takes enormous care of her things (she had the same washing machine and fridge for 20 years, I gave her a laptop 7 years ago, she still uses it). She buys most stuff second hands, including the totality of her clothes. She trades stuff/work with neighbors/friends, and borrows from them. She has free pleasures: going to the library, hiking, etc. - she lives in France. The US makes it very hard. I went in the valley several times for work, and damn those fruits and vegetables suck. Even the expensive ones. So how do you want people to eat that and not a cheap delicious burrito at the local fast food ? It's hard enough in my own country, but in yours, feeding yourself properly is a part time job. - people think too much about extremes. You don't have to go full throttle vegan to start making a difference. It's a spectrum. You can adjust depending of your resources. - priorities. It's not that much a problem of the cost of a vegan diet than a problem of what you think is important in life. It takes a lot of dedication to change what you eat, and if your life is already hard, I understand you don't want to focus on that. As a Python dev freelancer, I have plenty of energy to think about stuff like that. My Levoritox dependent unemployed depressed friend ? Not so much.