• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Sounds like a win-win. Speaking as a non-vegan and non-vegetarian, meat should be less ubiquitous in our diets anyway.

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    9 days ago

    So we’re now at the point where change is proposed to be imposed on poorer groups to save money for rich institutions, and done under the guise of it being “for the environment”.

    For example, instead of slashing costs, this could have been sold as providing better quality, nutrition and value for the same cost. I.e. Spend the same but get better food for the money.

    But no, they had to target financial greed and shitting on the poor, in this case students.

    • Sunshine @lemmy.caOP
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      9 days ago

      Most vegans are poor.

      Also a whole foods plant-based diet is healthier.

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      8 days ago

      Whatever works to cut emissions. It’s a harsh reality but poor people will have to sacrifice some. The alternative is far more material suffering.

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    9 days ago

    not even a vegetarian/vegan, and this is not a bad idea at all. a lot more people than I thought need to learn to love their veggies, nuts, beans, etc

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    9 days ago

    Seems not bad, a lot of vegan and vegetarian food options with catering I’ve occasionaly sampled have gotten comparably tasty, too. I’m not a compulsive meat-eater but I’m not on any strictly plant based diets either. We’ve long known that water and energy inputs for plants are an order of magnitude less than meat for the same output.

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      9 days ago

      What’s “good science”? Imagining that carnism is somehow healthy, sustainable, and environmentally friendly? Good luck with that.

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        9 days ago

        good science is recognizing that LCAs are not transferable between studies, so poore-nemecek’s analysis must be disregarded.

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    9 days ago

    As long as they have an alternative for people who need to consume a lot of dairy products due to health conditions like me I’m all for the main menu’s being vegan

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    8 days ago

    Catering companies, in search of greater profits, will assume this means loads more high fructose corn syrup and “vegetable based” saturated fats. More garbage, more obesity.

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          8 days ago

          Going plant-based doesn’t automatically mean they will choose the worst food possible. The whole foods plant-based diet is the healthiest and cheapest.

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        9 days ago

        I think most folks are aware that’s the diet that contributed to killing Steve Jobs. Kind of the poster child for not running Fruitarian.

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      9 days ago

      I’m 83% certain you’re joking, but joking about the diet that helped kill Steve Jobs isn’t cool.

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        It was mocked in Notting Hill before Steve Jobs ruined it for everyone.

        I wasn’t aware of the myth that this is what killed him. It’s an interesting one that has little merit. There are studies that suggest a link, but it’s not a strong one. It’s not like smoking and lung cancer. To say his diet killed him when there could be other causes seems way off base. Did it kill Patrick Swayze too?

        In Notting Hill, the advocate for this diet (which shall go unnamed for safety reasons) supported it for moral, not health reasons.

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            I had heard that he was not seeking traditional care. If being on the diet made him think he didn’t need chemo, the diet didn’t kill him.