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It’s nice to see Gen Z getting more qualitatively neutral headline language. Millennials would’ve been “killing the meat industry.”
Also, this is really good. While we don’t all need to become total vegans, reducing the number of domesticated animals would have a significantly positive impact on both the environment and the quality of those animals’ lives.
Tbh it's from a vegan souce, and probably written by millenials too
They're citing a gallup poll https://news.gallup.com/poll/510038/identify-vegetarian-vegan.aspx
What does the article being written by someone with a birth year within a specific range have to do with it's the validity of its contents?
Millennials bore the brunt of a ton of media framing their changes as evil, so they aren't doing the same to subsequent generations. A similar inference could be made about the positivity towards veganism (i.e., coming from a vegan site).
OP isn't implying anything about validity; they're just explaining the article's positive framing.
While we don’t all need to become total vegans, reducing the number of domesticated animals would have a significantly positive impact on both the environment and the quality of those animals’ lives.
This is where I'm at. Half-assed vegetarian. I don't buy meat but if someone serves it at a dinner I don't refuse to eat. Baby steps. It's making progress without the shock of an abrupt change all at once.
Yeah I turned meat into a “special occasion” food, and it was way easier than I thought once I got over the perfectionism. Animal products are a lot easier to reduce than completely eliminate, but every little bit helps.
Over >50% of the space humans occupy is for agriculture. 3/4 of that space is dedicated to livestock/feed.
Recently I learned that plants like Bambara Nuts (africa) and Water Lentils (duckweed) have complete amino complexes and b12. They're probably not the only ones either.
There's also many pest/drought resistant perennial crops that are nitrogen/nutrient fixers that eliminate the need for fertilizers and pesticides.
I expect that the impending climate induced supply chain collapse of global agriculture will force people to return to these more ancestral, and arguably superior, food sources.
Huh, isn't duckweed pretty easy to grow?
Just watched a lady "grow" it in buckets of pond/tap water. It doubles in biomass every 48h. Literally just let it sit there.
Most things with weed in the name is going to be easy to grow. A lot of people with aquariums or ponds feel plagued by it. I love it for aquariums it's one of the few things that can out compete algae
Youtube has sent me down the rabbit hole. Almost every common weed that's not native to North America was once a staple food crop in Europe.
But in the mid 20th century big agriculture realized they'd make more money selling annuals, fertilizer, and pesticides... instead of letting people grow perennial plants that solved those problems on their own.
By the way, all plant foods have all amino acids. They just have them in proportions to one another that don't quite match the proportions that we need. But this is only relevant, if you eat the minimum amount of protein necessary to sustain your body tissues.
In a Western diet, we typically eat significantly more protein than that. As such, if e.g. black beans only provide 50% of an amino acid compared to the other amino acids and compared to what we need, you can totally eat 200% black beans to make up for it.
Or, what's more likely the case, you're not gonna eat just black beans, but rather mix and match them with lots of other protein sources, which will have different amino acid distributions. Even wheat and rice contain protein. Well, and then you're gonna eat significantly more of that mixture than you actually need, so you don't need be particularly cautious at mixing+matching either.
Not the most scientific source, but has some decent illustrations: https://vegfaqs.com/essential-amino-acid-profiles-beans/
The human body require 20 amino acids of which 9 our bodies cannot produce. A "complete amino complex" contains all 9 of those unproducible acids. Most plants do not contain all of them. Black beans lack methionine; so simply eating more black beans will not suffice.
No, that's what I'm saying. Black beans 'lack' methionine in that they have less milligram methionine per gram protein than other protein sources, but they don't have none.
This table in the source that I linked is to be read as "you should eat 4.59 cups of black beans per day to cover the methionine RDA (if you weigh 70kg and all you eat is black beans)":
Here's another diagram showing that black beans do contain methionine, which got published in a scientific paper:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Amino-acid-composition-of-quinoa-black-bean-and-lentil-proteins-g-100-g-of-protein_fig1_351804462
4% compared to 2%
i am not a vegan but if this means more interesting recipes then it's a W
Hell, I'm not vegan (or vegetarian), but I'm almost 100% sure I eat much less meat than Millennials and Boomers did when they were in my wage and age bracket.
yeah, meat consumption should be about "kg of meat eaten/(person*year)" instead of "percentage of people who eat meat".
because you can have a society where 50% of people eat meat and eat like 100 kg of it per year or you can have a society where 50% of people eat meat and eat 30 kg of it per year, makes a lot of difference.
Same. Growing up, it was the main. Now, it's part of a dish. Instead of 1/2 meat, and 1/2 sides, the meat is about 1/5, and 4/5 sides. Not completely meatless, but much better than when I was younger.
All those food recalls in the last two decades has made me eat more vegetables, or find meat alternatives.
Also, rising prices. It's like $10 a lb for quality burger meat. Or I can buy vegetarian burgers.
Interesting. I've noticed the hype dying down in recent years and some of my favorite vegan products disappearing off the shelves or changing recipe and then dying a slow painful death. I blamed it on people and companies treating it as just a fad, so reporting that it's still a thing people do is surprising to me.
It's true there are still more vegan products than before, but the dedicated sections in my local supermarkets are tiny.
Subsidies for the animal agriculture industry are still lopsided against veganism, and the Far Right escalation in social media awarded by algorithms favors carnism over veganism.
I like to think that veganism is more of a grass roots (pun intended) movement focused on whole foods in favor of processed foods.
All these things may contribute to veganism's seeming decline in the last few years, although I may be wrong (and that decline may just be a lack of reporting)
Anecdotally, this is not the case where I live. Vegan ice cream has taken a hit, but the other sections seem to be expanding year after year.
Vegans rise up! Nobody in any Imperial Core countries should have to eat animals, as there are so many plant-based options today. It's so easy these days, and I'm happy to say that my family's Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners this year were and will be mostly vegan!
I hope all of this Gen Z momentum translates into political will on the policy level, where we see more and more animal sanctuaries both on and off shore.
But of course our impact doesn't just stop at the Imperial Core. We need a global movement of veganism if we should ever want to change what we do to the natural world
Agreed, JOIN US
Yay! 🥕🐇
I absolutely misread that title as vampirism and it had me confused for a solid 15 seconds
Love to see it!
highest rate of veganism in history
India says hello
The massive dairy industry with a stranglehold on Indian culture and politics says hello.
India has the same percentage of vegans as Mexico.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/veganism-by-country
If Gen Z manages to foster a vegan culture that doesn't rely on shaming but is rather welcoming, I think it might convert a whole lot more people, and many of us wouldn't scoff at the idea. One of my biggest hurdles as a former vegetarian was dealing with judgement and I always felt that the community didn't do itself any favors.
I find most vegans welcoming, the problem is the crazies make so much noise in my opinion. Like in many other fields.
I'm rather asocial, so I can be so wrong.
It's nice with a good selection of vegan options, makes it easier to eat less meat.
