Brand New Sentence

oppertunistic carnivore

Vegetarians are happy at first, until they see me just devour a whole chicken once a month, then they give me the side eye lol. Vegans don't like that I eat dairy and eggs. Carnivores get annoyed when I have a meal of "rabbit food". I seem to annoy everyone 😂

I dunno, to me it's called having a varied diet and it's normal. Where I grew up, that's what you ate. Mostly plants, dairy from the cows/goats/sheep, eggs from the chickens. Then sometimes, the village would slaughter a goat, and you had a party and ate as much meat as you could because it doesn't preserve well. The animals were treated with respect, but we also ate them sometimes. It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive.

Food is a weird thing, I find people care a lot about what I eat for some reason. It feels like I'm not following some unspoken rules or something

I think veganism just self-selects for insane people, because you have to be a bit crazy to go against 98% of the population, eat differently than your friends and family, and ask constantly if things have cheese or milk in them everywhere you go.

source: me e: im literally talking about myself in this paragraph

I'm not a vegan, but behavior change (if you want to change) is most effectively accomplished with smaller, incremental changes. If you try to make huge, sweeping changes from the start, there's a very good chance you won't stick with it. Vegans expecting you to "just" eliminate all animal products on day 1 is very unrealistic.

For the animal products example, you could reduce (not eliminate) consumption of one thing at a time. Start with one meal per week for a week or two, reduce the portion of meat or other animal product you want to eliminate by 1/3 or whatever you can manage. After a week or two, you reduce the portion in another meal. Give it a week or two. Then another portion. And another after that. Etc.

If you can do more, then try it out. If you feel like you can't reduce one week or another, don't pressure yourself to do it, just consider it a victory of sorts that you didn't eat more. It's a marathon, not a sprint. Taper the dosage, don't go cold turkey.

I haven't done this for animal products, but I have done it with alcohol and prescription medication. I can't guarantee you'll see success, all I can say is that it worked for me and others I learned from.

And belligerent types are even less likely to listen when you ask them to stop. That's exactly my point.

I'm convinced saving the plant will require eating local food, no industrial inputs, no fossil fuel consumption. Moving everyone to a diet that requires exotic foods that must be shipped around the globe, massive industrial inputs, and has built in nutrient deficiencies - seems counter productive.