*sigh* I get so tired of people asking this question. Look, most of us don’t stop eating animal foods because we don’t like the taste; we stop eating them because factory farming is beyond fucked, and there are many delicious foods we can have that cause a lot less harm. And while the idea of small, independent…

I can tell whether you’re being facetious or obtuse, but:

I can guarantee you that people who follow plant-based diets do NOT eat meat, egg and dairy substitutes “to be just like the rest of” you.

At least for almond milk, it’s called the way it is, because it was used in medieval kitchens as a reliable milk substitute. In the centuries before refrigeration, cow’s milk would spoil, whereas almond milk would not (plus it was acceptable to consume for Christianity’s many mandated fasting days).

No. Most margarine has dairy in it (why that’s true is beyond me.) Both my husband and son have dairy allergies (different from lactose intolerance) and vegan butters are a godsend. Now, if you mean shortening, yes, that is often vegan, but behaves very differently from butter.

Kid, I hate to tell you this, mostly because I think you’re too fucking stupid to understand it, but almost nobody goes vegan because they hate meat and cheese. They go vegan because they hate animal abuse, needless slaughter, sexual violation and forced reproduction, environmental destruction, mass deforestation, the…

Because you don’t have to kill an animal or keep large numbers of them in captivity for it?

You know - I mean, you don’t, you’re clearly ignorant - that you can take other kinds of milk and use ancient and legitimate cheese-making techniques on them, and then they turn into cheese, right? Right? And that’s what most vegan cheeses are, right? They’re cheeses. Made with authentic cheese-making techniques and…