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I don't need to refer to your elementary school math skills to impugn your intelligence, the fact that you completely failed to address the entire second half of their comment is more than enough to justify calling you a dumbass
The rest of their comment doesn't matter because it's based on bad math.
1½ cups is not an absurdly large serving. And cooking vegetables is easier than cooking meat. It's less finicky, and usually doesn't need to reach a specific temperature. And you can cook it in large batches that last longer than meat does, simplifying meal prep by only doing it on the weekends.
Also, you're the first anti-vegan tankie I've ever met. Congratulations. I wonder what all your tankie friends will think when they find out you're defending carnists... 🤔
The rest of their comment doesn't contain any math dumbass
I'm not anti-vegan, I'm anti-moron. The vegans I know in real life aren't half as stupid as the ones on the Internet. Tbh I assume most of y'all are paid ag industry trolls deliberately misrepresenting veganism as a smear campaign.
I never said it contains math, I said it's based on bad math. Which it is. You're really not arguing in good faith, but I already knew you wouldn't.
And I already addressed the things you quoted, so who's ignoring second-halves of comments now?
You're jumping through a lot of hoops to try to defend a carnist argument which is wrong on a fundamental level.
Dude, look yourself in the mirror. Those "vegans on the internet" are mostly all tankie trolls just like you.
And I'm not even vegan. I'm just pointing out the flaws in GreenKnight's argument, because it's a flawed argument.
Oh but I am vegetarian, so I do know how easy it is to replace meat with veggies in ones diet, from a financial and logistical point of view. The hardest part is the emotional hurdle, the attachment to eating meat, the cravings. Which is no different from any other addiction.
If the argument was about those I would say "Yes, it's difficult to make the switch and I encourage people to do it slowly by gradually reducing their meat intake until they no longer miss it."
But that's not what the argument was about. They were trying to say it's cheaper and easier to buy meat at the store and cook it than it is to do with vegetables. Which is fundamentally incorrect.
Wordy+stupid+wrong
I tried to have an inteligent debate. But you desire to live in ignorance. Sad.
You really do have zero intelligent things to say, don't you...
You're bad at this
You continue to describe yourself. It's pathetic.