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I think it’s more than taste bud pleasure. Animals are an easy source of protein with a complete amino acid profile. It takes real effort to learn how to eat a

I think it’s more than taste bud pleasure. Animals are an easy source of protein with a complete amino acid profile. It takes real effort to learn how to eat a vegetarian diet (even one that incorporates eggs and dairy). Excluding eggs and dairy increases the difficulty even further. I’m not ready to be so pithy about it. And I have gone on extended vegan and vegetarian dieting phases due to ethical concerns. It’s hard.

ornornor 6y ago
> It’s hard. It requires some effort, sure. But it has to be weighed against the suffering and killing and polluting that not doing it is responsible for. Looking after children is hard. Studying is hard. Working for 40 years is hard. And yet we manage all these.
cute_boi 6y ago
actually its not hard but the current demand of meat etc makes it hard. Go to supermarket around half of food is non vegan. And its hard to convince parents if children wants to become vegan because they think they may not get enough nutrition. And on another hand meat and dairy industry try to hide everything using marketing strategy like drink milk to become strong, McDonald food are high quality and rich people eats there etc. Its just like palm oil which has become ubiquitous before 5 years we could avoid that now its hard.
- watwut 6y ago
  > And its hard to convince parents if children wants to become vegan because they think they may not get enough nutrition To be fair, it is pretty easy to cause yourself malnutrition by experimenting with diet. And you know how you feel and are adult. It is even easier to cause it to kids and consequences can be serious. It is responsible for parents to go by what is recommended for kids.
globular-toast 6y ago
Do you really think the majority of people are eating meat because they care about their health? Maybe in your bubble. The vast majority of people do not even know what protein is, let alone amino acid profiles etc. India and Italy both have very large vegetarian populations, and they get along just fine.
phkahler 6y ago
>> Animals are an easy source of protein with a complete amino acid profile. For example, the is Glycine in connective tissue. But how many people want their food processed and those parts kept off the plate?

ornornor 6y ago

> It’s hard. It requires some effort, sure. But it has to be weighed against the suffering and killing and polluting that not doing it is responsible for. Looking after children is hard. Studying is hard. Working for 40 years is hard. And yet we manage all these.

cute_boi 6y ago

actually its not hard but the current demand of meat etc makes it hard. Go to supermarket around half of food is non vegan. And its hard to convince parents if children wants to become vegan because they think they may not get enough nutrition. And on another hand meat and dairy industry try to hide everything using marketing strategy like drink milk to become strong, McDonald food are high quality and rich people eats there etc. Its just like palm oil which has become ubiquitous before 5 years we could avoid that now its hard.

watwut 6y ago
> And its hard to convince parents if children wants to become vegan because they think they may not get enough nutrition To be fair, it is pretty easy to cause yourself malnutrition by experimenting with diet. And you know how you feel and are adult. It is even easier to cause it to kids and consequences can be serious. It is responsible for parents to go by what is recommended for kids.

globular-toast 6y ago

Do you really think the majority of people are eating meat because they care about their health? Maybe in your bubble. The vast majority of people do not even know what protein is, let alone amino acid profiles etc. India and Italy both have very large vegetarian populations, and they get along just fine.

phkahler 6y ago

>> Animals are an easy source of protein with a complete amino acid profile. For example, the is Glycine in connective tissue. But how many people want their food processed and those parts kept off the plate?