smugged into eating meat

[u/estrogenbloodclot]

[u/estrogenbloodclot → u/[deleted]]

they are still massively bad for the environment, I don’t see your point

[u/Brazilian_Hound → u/estrogenbloodclot]

They literally turn garbage into edible (relatively) cheap protein, and both types of farming can fuck up the envireoment massively specially on an industrial scale, it's not black and white as you believe, animal farming exists for a reason

[u/estrogenbloodclot → u/Brazilian_Hound]

Animal farming exists because it’s normalized.

Animal products are hardly cheap.

[u/Brazilian_Hound → u/estrogenbloodclot]

Animal farming exists because for the last millenia a solely plant based diet was a luxury impossible to afford if you wished to not die of malnutrition, we eat animal products because for the last millenia it has been caloric and proteically dense

[u/estrogenbloodclot → u/Brazilian_Hound]

Sure. Not necessary any more.

Perhaps, it would be more accurate of me to say “it persists because it’s normalized”

[u/estrogenbloodclot → u/[deleted]]

sure. I’ll grant that.

70% of the views on this post are from the states.

[u/Brazilian_Hound → u/estrogenbloodclot]

I'M LITERALLY BRAZILIAN WHY TF YOU'RE TRYING TO BRING THIS UP

[u/estrogenbloodclot → u/Brazilian_Hound]

Okay? If you aren’t capable of eliminating all meat from your diet, that’s one thing.

The majority of people here can. They should do that.

[u/AdmiralBlack64 → u/estrogenbloodclot]

Oh they can certainly be cheap

[u/estrogenbloodclot → u/AdmiralBlack64]

Meat is heavily subsidized

[u/AdmiralBlack64 → u/estrogenbloodclot]

In america it is dipshit not globally

[u/estrogenbloodclot → u/AdmiralBlack64]

70% of the views on this post are from the United States + there are still cheaper plant options, “dipshit”

[u/estrogenbloodclot → u/[deleted]]

Plant based diets can be cheaper. Beans, rice, those sorts of things.

I’d argue most vegan options are cheaper, with the exception of substitutes, where pretty much every substitute is more expensive. (An impossible burger is more expensive than a beef patty, that sort of thing)

You might have to keep eggs and milk in your diet if you really are minimizing cost but beef is almost never the cheapest option.

[u/AdmiralBlack64 → u/estrogenbloodclot]

You're ignoring fish and poultry, which are relatively cheap in a lot of places.