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No. One of my sisters is a vegan and we have had extensive talks about it. Yea garbanzo and peanut butter are great power packed availability. But peanut butter only goes so far. Garbanzo needs a massive amount to match isolated whey or anything close.

I totally agree with the environmental impact. I wish I could have locally sourced options that wouldn’t impact the environment so much.

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I love how micromanaging nutrition only ever comes up when veganism is mentioned. Do you think people who gorge themselves on steak and cheeseburgers are inherently healthier than someone with a vegan diet because they consume animal protein? You might be shocked to learn that the densest source of protein doesn’t come from an animal.

EDIT: You DO have local sources available to you. It’s in the same grocery store you buy slaughtered animals from.

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That isn’t factual. The diversity of food is different in every area. And it doesn’t come up just in veganism. Nutritionists and athletes talk about it often.

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You can stop pretending that you’re trying to advocate for people in food-starved areas. Veganism, believe it or not, has never actually been about trying to force people in marginalized areas to adopt a vegan diet. Veganism is about harm reduction, full stop. The people who appeal to veganism are the same people who can make those choices in any grocery store that they go to, whether they live in a food desert or not. Personally, I don’t live in an area that’s considered vegan-friendly. However, I find myself to be okay with that purely because I know for a fact that my decisions aren’t reliant on convenience alone.

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Local meat is not better for the environment. Scientific information is only one click away. Look at this graph, it’s impressive. Plus:

Vegan Bullshit Bingo
#11 I only eat organic and regional

While seemingly 99% of people say this about themselves, the proportion of organic meat in virtually all western countries is less than 2%. Maybe you consciously buy organic products for the big feast, but then in everyday life you go get your weekly hamburger, the restaurant around the corner, or “just this once” prefer to reach for the somewhat cheaper discount products. Moreover, in organic farming, animals suffer and die in the same way. Organic cannot solve the core problems: Murder and exploitation for pleasure. The goal is more about soothing the conscience of consumers rather than actually helping the animals.

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this is just more poore-nemecek, a paper debunked by its own citations

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lol, stop trolling. Nothing is real right? Animal suffering is.

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Local meat is local murder.

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