• twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    My main problem with strict dietary rhetoric is that it doesn’t acknowledge the benefit of people eating vegan (or whatever) sometimes. Like it’s a good thing to get nutrition from diverse sources and there’s carryover benefit to the planet when doing this.

    I’m not a vegan, but I eat a lot of plant-based meals and when I eat meat, because I eat less of it, it’s generally local and ethically-raised. Militant vegans will often turn people from making decisions like this, and I think that’s a shame.

    I was a vegan for years. And I was careful about trying to get my nutrients. But I needed to eat so much more and I was lowkey tired all the time. When I started eating some meat again I felt ashamed of myself for not living up to the rhetoric. But it’s just silly to treat this as an all or nothing type thing. A person eating beans and rice one day and a small amount of beef in a stir fry the next is… not the same as a person eating fried chicken every day, and I don’t appreciate when anyone implies it is.

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      7 months ago

      Classic “don’t let prefect be the enemy of good.”

      When people reduce their commercial meat intake in favor of veggies, or humanely raised and slaughtered meat, they are having a beneficial effect. Period.