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I find it really difficult to take this sort of stuff seriously. I drink at least one pint of milk per day and eat mostly red meat, chicken, green vegetables a

by throwaway22032 2y ago

I find it really difficult to take this sort of stuff seriously. I drink at least one pint of milk per day and eat mostly red meat, chicken, green vegetables and pasta/rice/bread. I work out and this diet provides the proteins and fats I need to grow and repair. I feel the best I ever have done and I'm pretty sure that I'm fitter than most of my peer group. The idea seems to be that I should stop doing this and replace it with a bunch of processed stuff. It just seems obvious from first principles to me that the motivation behind this messaging isn't to improve my health, but to increase the efficiency of feeding a large population. There are so many areas in life in which I feel this sort of manipulation now and it's getting tiring to constantly feel as if my rational choices are pitting me against others. I don't want to continuously argue with my friends about basic lifestyle choices, I wish everyone could just chill the fuck out.

drekk 2y ago
I don't know where you're getting processed stuff from. I make my own oat milk. It's just oats and water. You can add a sweetener like honey if you want. Unlike dairy milk I know exactly what's going in my body. I'm also a vegetarian and don't consume meat. Instead I eat a lot of legumes and dark leafy greens. I work out and this diet provides the proteins and fats I need to grow and repair. I feel the best I ever have done and I'm pretty sure that I'm fitter than most of my peer group. The idea seems to be that I should stop doing this and replace it with a bunch of unnecessary, more expensive staples that are worse for my body. Or that if I bring it up I'm being manipulative. Maybe people need to be manipulated a little. It doesn't make environmental or economic sense to produce a bunch of useless shit and truck it halfway across the country to line the pockets of some lobbies. You want milk and flesh every day? Go for it. But stop making me subsidize your inefficient diet
- throwaway22032 2y ago
  > I don't want to continuously argue with my friends about basic lifestyle choices, I wish everyone could just chill the fuck out. I'm glad you like oat milk, that's fine. I like it too. I resent that this is even a discussion, it's just food, eat what you want to eat, let's do something fun instead.

drekk 2y ago

I don't know where you're getting processed stuff from. I make my own oat milk. It's just oats and water. You can add a sweetener like honey if you want. Unlike dairy milk I know exactly what's going in my body. I'm also a vegetarian and don't consume meat. Instead I eat a lot of legumes and dark leafy greens. I work out and this diet provides the proteins and fats I need to grow and repair. I feel the best I ever have done and I'm pretty sure that I'm fitter than most of my peer group. The idea seems to be that I should stop doing this and replace it with a bunch of unnecessary, more expensive staples that are worse for my body. Or that if I bring it up I'm being manipulative. Maybe people need to be manipulated a little. It doesn't make environmental or economic sense to produce a bunch of useless shit and truck it halfway across the country to line the pockets of some lobbies. You want milk and flesh every day? Go for it. But stop making me subsidize your inefficient diet

throwaway22032 2y ago
> I don't want to continuously argue with my friends about basic lifestyle choices, I wish everyone could just chill the fuck out. I'm glad you like oat milk, that's fine. I like it too. I resent that this is even a discussion, it's just food, eat what you want to eat, let's do something fun instead.