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I'm a vegan so they would be eating the same food I do. I never eat out and barely ever try the expensive vegan faux-meats. Adding a few spices and a can of to

I'm a vegan so they would be eating the same food I do. I never eat out and barely ever try the expensive vegan faux-meats. Adding a few spices and a can of tomatoes make beans and rice delicious. Chana masala, black bean bowls, navy bean soup, the number of dishes you can create from a base of rice and beans is innumerable and they're all relatively simple. The same could be said about unseasoned chicken meat on rice.

belorn 5y ago
I have a challenge for you. Try live a month eating nothing except for seaweed as your protein source and test how easy and enjoyable it is to completely replace one protein source for an other which has completely different taste, smell, texture, and cultural place in your diet. Bonus points if you actually do not like the smell and taste of seaweed and have to work really hard with seasoning to eat it. It is vegan. It simply just a very different diet from what you are used to.
- kapp_in_life 5y ago
  That's a hilarious false equivalency. Almost every culture has had a bean based dish, and eating meat with every meal is a relatively recent phenomenon in the last hundred years. There's a reason why I replaced meat with beans and thats due to the flexibility and variety of dishes you can cook with it, across and within cultures.
  - selimthegrim 5y ago
    Gandhi famously had problems eating pulses - he had to get his protein from goat milk. Not everyone is blessed with your digestive system.
    - kapp_in_life 5y ago
      Not sure what the point of this comment is, I doubt a large majority of people eating meat or animal products have a dietary need to.
  - sokoloff 5y ago
    Nevertheless, that’s the actual change facing most people if you asked them to switch to a vegan diet today. It’s not like they’re eating food characteristic of the 1900s today.
  - belorn 5y ago
    And there we have it. It is about culture, taste, smell and texture. All environment and cultures do not have beans in the center. The easiest examples are cultures which predominantly lived on fish. In North America the three main agricultural crops are winter squash, maize (corn), and climbing beans. It should be no surprise that if you live there, cultural beans are great to you. Like fish, seaweed is primarily part of the cultural diet in coastal locations. Look at the Māori people and there is a distinct lack of beans in their diet, but seaweed is used just as bean are in north America. What you call "a hilarious false equivalency" is something I would call a lack of understand and empathy of different cultures.

belorn 5y ago

I have a challenge for you. Try live a month eating nothing except for seaweed as your protein source and test how easy and enjoyable it is to completely replace one protein source for an other which has completely different taste, smell, texture, and cultural place in your diet. Bonus points if you actually do not like the smell and taste of seaweed and have to work really hard with seasoning to eat it. It is vegan. It simply just a very different diet from what you are used to.

kapp_in_life 5y ago
That's a hilarious false equivalency. Almost every culture has had a bean based dish, and eating meat with every meal is a relatively recent phenomenon in the last hundred years. There's a reason why I replaced meat with beans and thats due to the flexibility and variety of dishes you can cook with it, across and within cultures.
- selimthegrim 5y ago
  Gandhi famously had problems eating pulses - he had to get his protein from goat milk. Not everyone is blessed with your digestive system.
  - kapp_in_life 5y ago
    Not sure what the point of this comment is, I doubt a large majority of people eating meat or animal products have a dietary need to.
- sokoloff 5y ago
  Nevertheless, that’s the actual change facing most people if you asked them to switch to a vegan diet today. It’s not like they’re eating food characteristic of the 1900s today.
- belorn 5y ago
  And there we have it. It is about culture, taste, smell and texture. All environment and cultures do not have beans in the center. The easiest examples are cultures which predominantly lived on fish. In North America the three main agricultural crops are winter squash, maize (corn), and climbing beans. It should be no surprise that if you live there, cultural beans are great to you. Like fish, seaweed is primarily part of the cultural diet in coastal locations. Look at the Māori people and there is a distinct lack of beans in their diet, but seaweed is used just as bean are in north America. What you call "a hilarious false equivalency" is something I would call a lack of understand and empathy of different cultures.