I’m lacto-ovo, with strict limitations on the dairy when I purchase them. I think the chill part can come from anybody who practices any dietary choice if they realise that it is a choice and not a religion. The problem with most of these lifestyle choices is that the people who make them believe themselves to have…

What the fuck is this comment?

As a sanctimonious vegetarian, I think the suggestion that everyone be a vegetarian is the dumbest solution to serious problem I have ever heard.

Honestly, I’m really confused as to why Americans say that pasta is not good for you. In Italy pasta is the main staple of the diet, everybody eats it as a main course every single day, and we are doing pretty well.

All that’s going to do is push even more people toward products like chicken nuggets, fish sticks, and TV dinners - things you can stock up on during the “right” day and keep in the freezer. That doesn’t reduce meat consumption, and it will make people (especially poorer people) even less healthy than they already are.

My advice on that one is to give Indian foods a shot. Cheap meat is what’s gotten us into this predicament, and we don’t even think about why so many Americans eat it at every meal anymore. But yeah, learn to make some vegetable curries, you can use frozen veggies for most since so many are slow cooked. Soups are…

It takes a very special type of basement-dwelling cretin to insist on continuously moving the goalposts on what constitutes sexual assault. Your posts are frighteningly spot-on.

i refuse to believe in sexual assault until LITERALLY EVERY WOMAN ON EARTH TAKES A SURVEY

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Actually, that sounds terrible. Whatever beef they don’t sell on Monday will probably have to be thrown out, cause it will spoil before next Monday. We’d have to switch to all frozen foods or something to make that work. And then we’ll be paying for aisle after aisle of freezers full of stuff we can’t buy cause it’s…

My problem is meal planning. It’s either meat, potato, veggie; or I’m not sure... I do pasta primavera like every other night it seems! I love eggplant parm. But then I run out of meals because I’m not into beans and is cheese enough protein? Gah!

its not hard to turn a meal from one small chicken breast per person per meal to one breast for everyone and more rice and other items etc.

The problem is that historically, the only effective tool we’ve seen that dramatically changes market behavior is taxation. Good luck getting Congress to pass a meat tax when half of Congress doesn’t even acknowledge silly things like global warming are actually real. We’re all screwed.

Not only that, but originally, small amounts of meat was usually used to flavor other things (vegetables, grains). Look at most traditional every day foods, usually older recipes call for a very small amount of meat + stock from boiling small amounts of meat on bones as a flavoring for everything else. The meat was…

I’ve had pretty good luck substituting beans, nuts, meat substitutes, eggs and cheese for actual meat, but it is tough to get the hang of eating like that and NOT ending up with mostly pasta and salad, you’re right. Still, I’ve managed to get down to only two (or in winter sometimes three) days a week being meat days.…

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” — Nelson Mandela

And I worry that if we’re pushed away from eating meat, we’ll just eat more processed crap to replace it. I think a lot of people have convinced themselves they don’t like vegetables - or they have eaten so much garbage that they think that’s what food should taste like. I’m a little in both groups, and I should know…

Meat went from this “every so often as a treat” thing to a daily staple and it’s wrecked us. It’s not good for us at all. I try to have meatless days but then it’s mostly pasta and salad.