84
I'm foss plus steam
(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2026
84 points (98.8% liked)
Microblog Memes
10881 readers
314 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
RELATED COMMUNITIES:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
When the vegetarian option becomes cheaper and tastes just as good though, continuing to eat the meat version is an explicit choice.
It’s already cheaper it’s the tastes just as good part that is expensive. The faux meat is still expensive but vegetables have been cheap. If you didn’t care about variety you could eat chicken soup with a Costco chicken for a whole week for like $8
I might add health concerns to that list along with cost and taste. Allergens and sodium content, for instance. Also a concern about being "highly processed".
Not that that's not an issue with animal-based foods. But Impossible is still "new and different" and if Impossible turned out to be terrible for you, it wouldn't be the first time something new and different (even something new and different that was touted by some as being better for you) resulted in a public health crisis. (I'm referring to trans fats in particular here.)
I think there is also a cooking skills gap no one acknowledges. For example tofu is way different than chicken/beef/pork. Scares a lot of people away because poorly cooked tofu is 100x worse than poorly cooked meat.
Our family eats about half vegetarian because the cost difference is still minimal and variety is fun. Animals are also way more evil than most people realize. Cows are basically the only one that won't eat it's friend when they are bored. Not saying it justifies earing them, but I've never understood why vegans put animals on a pedestal.
This would be an argument for not breeding them into existence in the first place. Creating an evil entity is not a good thing.
I think tofu is just an acquired taste. When I first started cooking it, I did all the things. Pressing, freezing then thawing, brines, breading, sauces, air frying, etc.
But the more eating it became habit, the less all that stuff mattered. When I'm preparing it now, I usually take it out of the package and immediately crush it with my hands into rough chunks into whatever I'm cooking. I actively crave the stuff enough that I will pretty much always eat a raw chunk as I'm crumbling it.
I don't put them on a pedestal. I would still be vegan even if I hated animals. You don't have to love or even like somebody to not want them to be tortured and killed. The conditions that chickens, pigs, and cows live in aren't something I would wish on my worst enemy.