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If you're cooking for other people, shouldn't it be the kind of food they want to eat? Otherwise, who are you cooking for, your principles?

kqr 2y ago
Well... if someone requested I cook them BSE-infected meat when there's perfectly good non-infected meat to have, I think (hope!) most people would offer to cook the non-infected meat instead, even if it's not "the kind of food they wanted to eat". Why? Because it's ridiculous to demand BSE-infected meat, at least to someone who knows of the potential health effects. Some people draw that line elsewhere. I could picture someone else saying "it's ridiculous to demand meat, at least to someone who knows of the environmental and financial consequences, when perfectly good food exists that does not have the same consequences." That's putting the line elsewhere, but it's just the same line. It's not about cooking for one's principles, it's about respecting them while offering to cook for someone else.
- HappMacDonald 2y ago
  I'd argue that Overton's Window has a place in the context for where one tries to place that line. FDA approval of food is far more respected in our culture than Vegan approval of food is at the current time, and food means a lot more to a dining experience than just filling up a nutritional fuel tank.
  - immibis 2y ago
    In a hurricane you are eating so you don't starve. While there are reasonable limits to what you can serve before you should stop serving anything at all, most vegan food is far from unreasonable.
aziaziazi 2y ago
In emergency situation you don’t always have the time to gather people preferences and do the shopping. Often the vegan diet match the most restrictions and is super cheap if cooked with raw ingredients like lentils. I can’t help thinking to the "eat together" movement that do one step further and integrate Jainism : https://www.dietethics.eu/en/home.php https://www.dietethics.eu/en/home.php

kqr 2y ago

Well... if someone requested I cook them BSE-infected meat when there's perfectly good non-infected meat to have, I think (hope!) most people would offer to cook the non-infected meat instead, even if it's not "the kind of food they wanted to eat". Why? Because it's ridiculous to demand BSE-infected meat, at least to someone who knows of the potential health effects. Some people draw that line elsewhere. I could picture someone else saying "it's ridiculous to demand meat, at least to someone who knows of the environmental and financial consequences, when perfectly good food exists that does not have the same consequences." That's putting the line elsewhere, but it's just the same line. It's not about cooking for one's principles, it's about respecting them while offering to cook for someone else.

HappMacDonald 2y ago
I'd argue that Overton's Window has a place in the context for where one tries to place that line. FDA approval of food is far more respected in our culture than Vegan approval of food is at the current time, and food means a lot more to a dining experience than just filling up a nutritional fuel tank.
- immibis 2y ago
  In a hurricane you are eating so you don't starve. While there are reasonable limits to what you can serve before you should stop serving anything at all, most vegan food is far from unreasonable.

aziaziazi 2y ago

In emergency situation you don’t always have the time to gather people preferences and do the shopping. Often the vegan diet match the most restrictions and is super cheap if cooked with raw ingredients like lentils. I can’t help thinking to the "eat together" movement that do one step further and integrate Jainism : https://www.dietethics.eu/en/home.php https://www.dietethics.eu/en/home.php