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I mean, if it’s eat meat or die you eat meat or die…but being vegan is a basic privilege. Especially because AFAIK vegan foods require less resources per calori
by armchairhacker 8mo ago
I mean, if it’s eat meat or die you eat meat or die…but being vegan is a basic privilege. Especially because AFAIK vegan foods require less resources per calorie to produce, so would be cheaper except for logistics.
Avoiding hyper-processed food may be smart if it would lead to health problems later. One jar or peanut butter probably isn’t an issue. But at the macro level, countries spend much more on ER treatment than they could on preventative care, like free or subsidized healthy food.
- tim333 8mo agoI looked peanut butter and it's mushed roasted peanuts, sometime with vegetable oil added. Not much hyper processing or weird ingredients there.
- ndsipa_pomu 8mo agoDepends on the brand, but a lot of peanut butter uses palm oil which has a bad reputation due to deforestation (often illegal) to produce it. Cheap brands often include xylitol which is toxic for dogs.
- IAmBroom 8mo agoYou're shifting the goalposts. The complaint was about ultra-processed food, not the ecological implications of farming.
- ndsipa_pomu 8mo agoI was replying to a post mentioning "weird ingredients there" and to my mind, anything apart from peanuts, salt is a "weird ingredient".