I used to be strictly materialist and atheist. Now I’m pretty spiritual. Don’t necessarily follow a religion and don’t support bigotry but yeah, I’m fairly spiritual now. This is a recent development and I never thought I’d be here like 5 years ago.
I used to be strictly materialist and atheist. Now I’m pretty spiritual. Don’t necessarily follow a religion and don’t support bigotry but yeah, I’m fairly spiritual now. This is a recent development and I never thought I’d be here like 5 years ago.
Eating meat. I used to vaguely mock vegans when I was in college (UK, so 16-18 years old). I used to say shit like “don’t you just miss bacon though” and “the animals already dead, you might as well eat it now or it goes to waste”. I’ve since done a 180 and I’m close to 10 years of veganism. Best decision I ever made for both my health and mental wellbeing.
I was like that as a kid but then even once I became sympathetic I spent so long stupidly being like, “my individual actions won’t make a difference so why bother” and finally I realized how, for me, eating meat had become an expression of helplessness, an admission of defeat towards the cruelties of the world. Even if it is a small thing (although countless animals can be saved over a lifetime), it turns out asserting control over your own choices and acting in line with your beliefs is actually really important for mental health!
And the moment I made the leap, like literally the week of, I realized that every argument that had held me back from doing it was complete bullshit. It only seemed reasonable because I didn’t want to change my habits, so once there were no longer any habits to protect, I could suddenly see straight through them.
My stepson’s family is vegan. My thought is some of it is good, most of it is depressing.
I could probably do vegetarian but no fucking way I’m giving up butter and cheese.
I have butter and cheese most days, they just happen to be vegan instead of dairy based
Yeah, that’s not butter and cheese what you’re eating… No need to lie to us.
That shit never tastes like the actual product. And it’s completely fine if you don’t want to eat it for whatever reason, but don’t lie.
Margarine is essentially vegan and a pretty ok substitute. I’ve had vegan butter that was also not terrible. Country crock makes some plant based cream that I actually very much like whipped cream from. My wife makes this stabilized whipped cream (think cream and instant pudding) that is absolutely amazing. Now cheese… that’s a totally different story. It always tastes like plastic to me. And don’t get me started on cream cheese. My wife tried to make a vegan cheese cake once. Let’s just say it didn’t go so well.
What made it easy for me to change to vegan cheese was realising that there’re so many different varieties of cheese that all taste different to each other, and realising that vegan cheese is just more amongst them, each also tasting different between them.
That and at the time of me making the transition my local supermarket had a vegan wensleydale and cranberries which has always been my favourite cheese. So having an alternative for that made it much easier for me.
This is very true.