Posted on 01/28/2022 6:51:41 AM PST by mylife
It’s becoming easier and easier to adopt a plant-based diet. Along with more ways to make fruits and vegetables delicious, there’s no shortage of meatless fish, chicken nuggets, beloved fast food burgers, even whole restaurant concepts dedicated to plant-based eats. While the introduction of some of these items leaves us scratching our heads, wondering if the arguments for sustainable meatless eating are even possible under our broken food system, the good news is that such developments continue to normalize vegetarian and vegan lifestyles.
So, what’s stopping people from ditching meat for good? Talker reports that taste may be the number-one factor. In a poll of 2,000 Americans (commissioned by vegan cheese brand Violife), 17% of respondents said they had tried a plant-based diet but couldn’t keep it up, citing lack of flavor and not enough options as the top deterrents. Some also pointed to social and familial pressures, saying it was much harder to maintain a vegan or vegetarian diet when those around them were sticking to meat and cheese. Peer pressure truly never goes away.
Still, there seems to be a widespread interest in trying to incorporate at least some vegan and vegetarian practices into daily life. Of those surveyed, half said they were curious about trying out a plant-based diet, with 75% saying they would rather pick and choose some plant-based options rather than going “all in” on the lifestyle. On average, folks who tried out veganism and vegetarianism fully stuck to it for three months.
Health seems to be the top motivating factor for switching up eating habits (even though the survey also shows that 63% of people eat whatever they want and don’t give a hoot about health factors—very relatable).
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I am not going to stop eating meat, and these people can eff off. I happen to like meat, all types that I’ve tried, and they can keep their tempeh and soy protein and zucchinis for themselves. I’ll be over here in the corner, gnawing on a shank hacked off some four-legged creature...
“What’s stopping you from going meatless?”
Bacon.
My daughter too. She is a Registered Dietitian. Abhors diet schemes, fake foods and such.
I’m not stopping because going near-Carnivore has been GREAT for my health!
I love meat, but if I want to lose weight I go full on veggie for a month or two. Last time my cholesterol dropped by 100 and I lost almost 30 pounds.
I have lost 70 lbs just by doing that since last Spring though I still eat fish and skinless grilled chicken on occasion. MY HBP went from sky high to normal with just one mild med now.
We have 1/2 a cow in our 2 freezers and I do eat the steaks when the wife cooks them.
“Also, God didn’t give me canine teeth just so I could eat tofu.”
You are absolutely correct.
“Humans have canine teeth, 4 per person...therefore meat is on the menu.
As for me, my meat shall come from the carcass of a cow, pig, deer or some other tasty animal.”
And don’t forget the incisors.
We have cutting teeth, tearing teeth, and grinding teeth: we are meant to be ominvores.
Pass the roast beef and potatoes, please.
Eating meat and animal fat is both the physiologically correct diet for Man, and is kinder to nature as farming crops kills millions of insects, works, and small animals.
I don’t care what anyone says the new ‘plant based’ meat is some frankenstein crap created in a lab-there is no way something that is so chemically altered and created can ever be better for you than something from nature. And there’s no way that process somehow makes it ‘better for the environment’
Do you like green eggs and spam Sam I am?😁
“no damn sweet tea!!”
Damnable heathens!
How could a people so outwardly good be so persnickity about some things.
They remind me of the biblical Pharisees who would “choke on a gnat but swallow a camel whole.”
Agree with the premise but: Impossible meat uses the same hemeglobin compound that gives meat its great flavor. The rest is the plant based stuff. It may help the environment if it becomes popular, but right now the important thing is that people who want to abstain from meat can do so without losing the great flavor. I have tried it and it meets the taste requirement for me. However I know that it is not more healthy than meat, it may use less water to make it than meat. But from my perspective, I have tried fake meat for most of my life but they finally have made something with a meat like taste. Good for them.
“We have cutting teeth, tearing teeth, and grinding teeth: we are meant to be ominvores.”
Why yes we do and yes we are.
Unprocessed meat from once living critters with sides of taters, carrots, beans and other assorted fruits and vegetables.
Not grass premasticated by machine then formed into meat shapes and held together by estrogen mimicking pastes with no taste.
No thanks.
Have some gravy with yer roast?
Nothing plant based tastes like meat. 😆
Because the “plant-based” crap is all chemicals. Ever read the packages of these products? There’s no real food in them. Not only that but a good steamed carrot or cauliflower is much better for you than the veggie that is cooked, pureed, loaded down with chemicals and flavoring and then shaped in a burger or chicken nuggets or even dough for a pizza. I tried the Sandwich Thins made from cauliflower and they were just awful! Would never buy them again.
What’s good enough for God is good enough for me.
Genesis 18:3-8
3 He said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, do not pass your servant by.
4 Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree.
5 Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way—now that you have come to your servant.”
“Very well,” they answered, “do as you say.”
6 So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. “Quick,” he said, “get three seahs of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.”
7 Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.
8 He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.
Include a digestive tract that is clearly omnivore. Mankind has always eaten meat as part of its diet. A human being can survive, but not really thrive, on a vegetarian diet.
I don’t care what the ‘substitute’ is, it never has exactly the same taste. Chemists, etc. may say it’s the same chemically, but it is not. The after taste is the clue...
Our extended family is 1) generally long-lived and 2) avoids “manufactured foods.”
Great for us, it seems and not so good for the corporate monoliths.
But I still haven't learned to like lutefisk. Probably not enough Akvavit.
Bill Gates could have written this.
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