• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Not a vegan, but most vegans I’ve met seem healthy and keto is seriously bad for you, so I do not fit this meme.

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    8 months ago

    Scrolling down half i the comments has give me a true headache. Why do you guys feel the need to explain your consumption to vegans? Not like we have not heard your “arguments” a thousand times before.

    Oh wait, you arent trying to justify your actions to us but to yourself?

  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    A whole stick of butter? Like, unfried? Reminds me of the time we had houseguests, opened up the butter dish and found teeth marks.

    No one believes it’s the cat, Susan.

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    8 months ago

    Always reassuring when carnists come on here to justify themselves on a vegan community. Honestly wouldn’t be a vegan space without those comments

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    8 months ago

    You can literally just read the comments from people who eat meat and see that they are more insufferable than vegans right here in this very thread

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    8 months ago

    I have never met someone on keto that has been as insufferable as a vegan.

    Not all vegans are like this, but I have only seen vegans be so pompous about their diet.

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    Ha, all these downvotes just prove it.

    • Floey@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      As someone who has done keto in the past and someone who has been a vegan for years I agree, at least in regards to myself. But the key difference is veganism is not a diet, what vegans eat is just a consequence of their ethics. Vegans are insufferable because animal ethics are a serious moral issue. I disagree with the pompous part though. I don’t pat myself on the back for being vegan the same way I don’t pat myself on the back for not committing various other moral abuses. I’m not contributing anything positive to the world by being a vegan, but I’m hopefully stepping on the rights of others less.

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    8 months ago

    I mean feed a hamster a vegan diet and see what happens if there’s another hamster with the vegan one… Missing out on some critical proteins and they will gladly eat their own kin to satisfy the missing nutrients

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 months ago

      Why do the carnists feel the need to come into a vegan community and mansplain why they murder animals in so many ways?

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        8 months ago

        Just browsing ‘all’ I’m not coming in here to hate, in fact i do love Buddhist meals with vermicelli and cloud ear mushrooms, 髮菜, and imitation abalone (braised wheat gluten)

  • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’ve never understood full veganism. Is it not morally okay to consume animal products (such as milk or eggs) from actual free roaming and happy animals? And not the BS marketed “free range” products in the US.

    Say I have 10 acres and keep a dozen or so chickens to roam around and eat all the ticks on my property, is it morally wrong to eat their eggs?

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      8 months ago

      Society doesn’t work on edge cases. But for the sake of argument:

      If that’s all the animal products you eat, these chickens are not selected through the common practice of grinding male chicks, the hens are going to die of old age, etc etc etc - for what I’m concerned you’re vegan.

      Veganism is about ethics, not diet. Diet is a mere consequence. Lab grown meat is more vegan than coconut gathered by enslaved monkeys (yes it’s a thing).

      So if you fine one such farm where animals are never killed or otherwise exploited then by all means, eat those eggs and call yourself a vegan. But something tells me you won’t find it.

      • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
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        8 months ago

        Adding to this - I really want to emphasize how much of an edge case this is.

        Around 60% of the world’s population lives in urban environments, and only ~10-15% of the population works in agriculture where one might expect to encounter a scenario like this.

        Living on 10 acres and raising chickens who you hug every night before bed and treat with the utmost respect is a nice ideal to strive for, but it is not achievable for most people, and there is no scenario where we maintain global meat & dairy consumption levels ethically/sustainably. Treating it as a viable solution is disingenuous because it’s only a solution for a limited few.

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          8 months ago

          A lot of places where all chickens die of old age and males don’t get killed as chicks. Really. Go to one of those places then, check the hen/rooster ratio (should be 50/50) and ask them what happens when hens no longer lay down eggs. Do let me know please.

    • Floey@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Some of the most nutritionally complete foods we can eat like spinach and other such veggies are limited (though not excluded) on a keto diet, meanwhile there is no limit to how much of these you can eat as a vegan. But also food isn’t just medicine or energy, it can also be poison, and other than refined junk it’s going to be the animal foods that are some of the deadliest.

      I’ll agree with you that foods like wheat and rice are not very nutritious, but also they aren’t likely to be the foods that kill you, and you can easily not eat them. Meanwhile keto is very hard to do without animal foods, for many people it’s very hard to do even with animal foods. Keto doesn’t just require you to exclude a list of foods like you sell it, it has very strict macro requirements which requires monitoring your intake of many of the allowed foods.

    • Nobsi@feddit.de
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      8 months ago

      Vegan, on the other hand, excludes plenty of foods that are common sources of essential nutrients and especially protein.

      Like what??? Seriously, except for B12 theres nothing a vegan diet doesnt have.
      Pistachios are a full protein. Lentils Peas and Veggies make full proteins. What are you on about?

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        8 months ago

        I think they mean if you were just to take your usual diet and remove certain items so as to make your diet keto friendly, you might be fine. But if you took a usual meat/dairy/egg diet and just stopped eating those fortified foods (without finding a substitution for those nutrients), you would be worse off.

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          8 months ago

          Okay, i see what you mean. But i also see that that’s a dumb way to think about it? Who changes their diet by just not eating certain foods anymore without incorporating something else.

  • Spzi@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Maybe it has become worse since all those vegan or vegetarian fast food options became available in stores and restaurants.

    When I hear non-vegs talk about living meat-free, the conversation always revolves around these meat substitutes, how unhealthy they are.

    It does not come to their mind one can prepare a meal from fresh produce. Yes of course, fast food is unhealthy. On the other hand, I like it.