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>People think that when you become vegan you have to give up lots of food. It’s true that I stopped eating animals but the number of different species I eat has
by Raztuf 11mo ago
>People think that when you become vegan you have to give up lots of food. It’s true that I stopped eating animals but the number of different species I eat has grown considerably. This is because meat-eaters tend to eat the same few species of animals over and over again – pigs, cows, chickens. Whereas there are some 20,000 species of edible plants in the world.
I was vegetarian for 10 years until around COVID. I often want to go back to vegetarianism, not for ethical or health reasons, just for the sheer diversity of what I ate and the fun of cooking with limitations.
- Sharlin 11mo agoI can't see how using plants diversely in cooking implies having to go full vegetarian.
- kqr 11mo agoThe term you're looking for is "creative constraint". Some people (I am one of them) need the constraint enforced more brutally in order for it to work at all. Sure, I could develop a minimalistic game using the Unity engine – but I find it much easier when I'm using the Pico-8 fantasy console to force myself to do so. Similarly, I could cook a varied vegetable meal any day of the week – but I find it much easier when I'm using vegetarianism to force myself to do so.
- ajuc 11mo agoIt's why chip tunes are so great. Different constraints force people to rethink basic assumptions.
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- devmor 11mo agoI have casually wondered what term to use to describe this phenomenon myself, and now I have it. It’s why I like pixel art, chiptunes, polaroids, one-pot stews and modern video games for retro consoles among many other things. Sometimes I feel like this is why so many great artists come from restrictive religious backgrounds as well.
- themafia 11mo agoI eat meat twice a week. Every other day is vegetarian. Not on principle just by default.
- kawsper 11mo agoThat’s an interesting perspective, I found out something similar when travelling as a vegan. The limitations put up forces you to go hunt for smaller, and sometimes fringe restaurants, located off the beaten path run by passionate people.
- ungreased0675 11mo agoThis is true. I’m not vegan or vegetarian, but I look for restaurants that cater to those audiences when traveling. It’s probably because they’re putting a lot more attention into the ingredients, which reflects as a more thoughtful end product.
- RyanOD 11mo agoWe have a family policy when traveling to never eat anywhere we could frequent at home.
- sbinnee 11mo agoI enjoy exploring vegan restaurants all over the world too! I often avoid burgers because they are easy to make I guess, and I had a lot of them over 8 years of my vegan journey. I instead look for more unique menus so that I can learn things and replicate them at home. But traveling is the only time I allow myself some fish and dairy, or maybe some eggs, no meat at all though.
- veltas 11mo agoIn the quote it sounds like they're conflating veganism and vegetarianism.
- izzylan 11mo agoThat's interesting. I tried vegetarianiam for a while and I found that it incredibly limiting and difficult. I don't have the time to cook and ready-to-eat or frozen vegetarian meals just aren't a thing around here. I think if I went full veganism I'd starve.
- worldfoodgood 11mo agoAs someone who became vegetarian after reading a Glenn Greenwald article I found on HN about how the pork industry does awful things and gets the government to prosecute people trying to expose it, the key I've found is to look to world cuisine. Many cultures around the world have awesome food that's easily convertible to vegetarian or is vegetarian already, where meat might be a luxury. Central America and the Caribbean have tons of dishes with rice, beans, plantains, and flavorful sauces with flatbreads. Or a million ways to prepare corn. West Africa has peanut stew that's amazing. Across the rest of the continent jollof rice and githeri are good solid bases for a meal. Misir wot is a spicy hearty lentil stew. North Africa has a rich vegetarian tradition of soups, stews, and rice dishes. In the middle east there's falafel, hummus, mujadara, shakshuka and about a million ways to combine spices, onions, tomatoes, flatbreads, etc. South Asia obviously has a massive vegetarian cultural tradition, as does Southeast and East Asia. When I started, I found it hard. I kept thinking "beans and rice... I guess?" Once I started going, "ok, I'm going to pick a small region of the world and see what they eat there and try it" I had WAY more success. The first time I made tteok-bokki or sushi or vareniki I suddenly realized just how much of the world is really already preparing vegetarian meals for many of their meals.
- byzantinegene 11mo agoas a pork lover, I'd say the sacrifices are well worth it
- worldfoodgood 11mo agoI don't understand your comment. Is it an attempt at humor? Don't be a dick. I don't object to eating animals, I object to torturing animals in the process of raising them. You can raise pork without forcing mother pigs to indefinitely share a space with a pile of their rotting children's carcasses. Ask yourself why it warrants a terrorism charge to smuggle out photos of animal mistreatment. Read the article: https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missing-piglets-animal-rights-glenn-greenwald/ https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missin... https://archive.is/kqBbh https://archive.is/kqBbh