I won’t be debating this, don’t bother.

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    1 year ago

    Which structures are missing?

    We already have plant based alternatives for everything and plenty of resources to help people transition.

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      1 year ago

      readily available education (“just google it” is insufficient in the current SEO fuelled hellscape) and support to help people build their own plant based diets, combined with plant based alternatives that are just as cheap + easy + nutritionally balanced. IMO there’s great progress towards both, but neither are there yet for becoming vegetarian/vegan to be a trivial process for those who want to.

      I’m physically disabled and struggle with most meal prep, so I mostly live on frozen meals. On an especially good day, i can make a sandwich, or put some chips in the oven. Can’t manage much more than that, and I’ve failed to find plant based alternatives to those things that i can both afford, and make myself. It could exist, but I haven’t been able to find it, and the sheer volume of ableism in the vegan (etc) community is exhausting to sift through. The last time I tried had some guy talking down to me telling me that “foraging isn’t that hard, actually”, lmao. And i’m someone who wants to reduce how much meat I eat, and have been trying to do so despite all of this!

      To be fair, there are a couple of veggie frozen meals at my local store (nothing vegan, though). But have you tried rotating the same 3 meals for a year and not completely losing it?

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        There’s a lot of resources which aren’t just “google it” tho, check out https://veganbootcamp.org/ for example, they’ll help you through getting started.

        Sustainable eating is cheaper and healthier - Oxford study

        Your situation is unfortunate and if you truly can’t afford plant based options which are practical for you then you can’t afford it.
        But a lot of people just refuse the cheap plant based options, rice, beans, frozen veggies, potatoes and so on aren’t expensive.

        Able-ism sucks and people shouldn’t be telling you to just go forage, I think part of the reason some vegans react negatively to it being mentioned is that it’s often brought up by people who aren’t actually disabled but just use other people’s disability to excuse their own destructive and cruel habits.