Be a conscientious consumer. We eat vegan but are not grouchy ex-meat eaters.
Fred eats vegan all the time, except when we are in the Cook Islands. There he eats what's available in restaurants and cooks fish. Our kitchen is switched, I can pretty well bake and we enjoy what we prepare and eat. It really has been a great experience for getting Fred to be more engaged at home, which will come in handy as we move into retirement.
As a result of being happy with what we're doing for health and environmental reasons, we're not like the ex-smokers that make people miserable with their choices. I can't see meat eating being regulated like smoking or drunk driving but you never know. Culture has changed a lot around those activities.
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I've tried to make a different, milder change in my diet, for some other reason, and it was hard and only partially succeeded. Removing meat would be at least a hundred times harder for me. I tried vegetarian pizza and that is probably as close as I can get. I went to a wedding banquet that served only vegetarian food. Afterwards I went straight to Wendy's.
ReplyDeleteI've been a "five-day-a-week-vegan" for about a month now, both to be a more conscientious consumer and for health reasons.
ReplyDeleteIt's a little challenging to find road food, but having an Instant Pot has made accessible all of the tasty Indian, Ethiopian, etc. vegan meals that otherwise require multi-hour prep and cooking.
I can also confess that when I do eat dairy, eggs or meat, it's a far more conscious undertaking which I enjoy and respect to a greater degree for the rarity. In the Epicurean sense, I would be happier if this consumption didn't involve animal suffering and environmental degradation, but at least I'm doing it less.
This is not a moral stance I'm going to beat anyone with, for certain.
Definitely the Instapot has helped because there isn't as much planning ahead and ethnic food is the best.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of unsatisfying vegetarian food out there. Vegetables don't really fill me up so our vegan meals have to be dense.