i’m sure with the influx of people we have enough of a community for this to be a thread, or at least people who are interested in veganism and vegetarianism and incorporating aspects of the diet/lifestyle into their current life. so yeah, pop off! share your struggles, experiences, good times, recipes, all that kind of stuff
Daaaamn, welcome to the tribe ^^
No joke, it’s hard in the beginning, you’re doing awesome.
Honestly, the food is the easy part, the hard part is navigating social situations and lovong woth being the odd one out in most food-related gatherings.
Yeah those situations can vary being from mildly annoying to very uncomfortable. I hate it when people need to feel like they constantly need to talk about their meat consumption and veganism and stuff on holidays, where I just want to have a nice time and not constantly think about my and their diet. But no, they feel threatened or whatever.
Edit: clarification
in a similar vein, the insecurity some people have about just owning meat being worse for the environment and vegans just being more ethical than them is fascinating to me. it’s fine to just own that! nobody cares and, by definition, most people won’t judge you because they do that too!
A lot of people can’t live with knowing that they aren’t simply “good” people
It’s weird to me how caught up some people are in believing they are 100% ethical. Like, I’m a vegetarian. I’m not a vegan. But I agree with vegans. I live with that because in our current society, it’s impossible to behave in an ethical manner all the time. I do other things I think are unethical, like buying from large corporations like Amazon. I just focus on doing good in other aspects of my life and hope that’s enough. No one person can fix the world no matter how ethically they behave, after all. And besides, I believe every person deserves to live a pleasurable life, and I’m a person, aren’t I? I couldn’t have much pleasure if I behaved in a perfectly ethical manner, as that would involve going off the grid and doing hard labor constantly to survive. And even then, you’d STILL have to get some of your initial supplies from a corporation, probably. So… Yeah. Do what you can and live with that.