RE: Do the reasons for reducing meat consumption matter?
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Really interesting charts !!
I can see here that my country "France" is not shown :')
I had one week of holidays on Germany few months ago and that's impressive how much you can have a vegan meal in each restaurent, in France that's almost impossible until this is a vegan restaurent !
As a vegan People are often saying that vegans are buying industrial food with their fake meats. And I know that I buy some of it but. Maybe less than once per week. Probably only once per month, the rest of the time I eat vegetable proteins, cook my own tofu and seitan to be sure of what's inside and make it cheaper. And and know that my vegan friends are making the same, or at least not buying a lot of vegan meats.
That's really interesting to see that 98% of that problem which is buying too much industrial food to replace actual meats is made by omnivore or flexitarians. I already knew that they were the people buying most of it but didn't know it was that much :')
Really great post though !! !LUV and !PIZZA
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The 98% figure is really high. I was expecting a much lower figure. I'm not surprised that long-term vegans don't or rarely buy plant-based meats because they never needed anything like that before. However, there are plenty of new vegans and vegetarians who I expected to be buying these meats. It also appears that many who are reducing meat for health reasons are choosing plant-based meats over unprocessed vegetables and fruits.
Excellent post! I've been vegetarian since I was 10, now mostly vegan though I do eat eggs and occasionally fish. When people ask why, I mention animal rights, the planet, etc., but honestly the real reason is super hard to explain. For me, it's more spiritual. Not that I necessary think it's spiritually "bad" to eat meat, but when I do, I feel spiritually "off." Once I was served a soup with some sort of beef broth; I tried to eat it to be polite but I could taste the blood and just couldn't do it.
I totally understand it :') I don't really feel right when I think I ate meat :') !PIZZA
Yeah, it's weird, right? Some people say that if you eat meat after not eating it for a long time, you'll get sick, but I don't believe it's a physical thing like that. I've seen former vegetarians eat meat and they were just fine. For me, it's more subtle and more emotional than physical.
Yes I think too. I'm not sure that will make anything if I eat meat but I don't wanna try it 😅