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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The only food that satisfies me and builds me better without making me feel sick is animal protein and animal fat. Nothing else really matters. Except some starch for the gut bugs / immune system.
They keep trying this but most people will never be interested. They want us dumb, sickly and dead.
Fat is the vehicle in which flavor travels.
General Principles.
My doctors wouldn’t be happy.
They helped me craft a balanced diet for my health. It has modest amounts of carbs, modest amounts of protein, both plant-based and animal-based, fruit, veggies, astonishing little room for sweets and added sugar, and, ideally, 2 - 3 3 oz. servings of high-quality beef each week. It’s lo-cal. I do “intermittent fasting” (most of the time, I eat only between 12 noon and 6 pm). I also try to get 30 - 60 - min of light-to moderate exercise 5 days a week.
Mostly, we eat meals cooked or prepared from scratch. Not a lot of processed stuff. We eat out about once a month. Maybe twice.
When setting up m diet, my main specialist at the time specifically told me, “We can do a vegetarian diet with you, but it would be easier and better if you consumed modest quantities of meat, and took special care to eat a little bit good steak or other beef a couple or so times per week.”
“What’s stopping you from going meatless?”
The fact that vegans have a stunted brain development and fall into the moron category in intelligence.
Always remember that Hitler was a vegetararian.
As was that fruit bat Dr. John Harvey Kellogg of corn flakes fame !
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