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I made this decision a couple years ago. Gave up milk (switched to oat milk), but I still eat cheese and yogurt. I eat probably 20% of the red meat per year that I used to.

You don’t have to be a rabid vegan to make an impact.

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12 points

But its much easier to hate vegans and pretend theyre the problem

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Vegans are the problem? What problem? Causing climate change, or eating too much red meat? Your comment makes no sense.

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Doesnt matter. Vegan hate does not follow logic. They brainwash our kids, they poison our wells, theyre not real men, anything goes.

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That would depend on the vegan.

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They aren’t the problem, but a good 10% of them are loud and annoying as hell, with no one wanting to hear them. They’re Karen’s.

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More like 1% but yes, unsurprisingly there are annoying people in the vegan community like in any other community in existence.

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This is such a good attitude! I cut all meat out of my diet a long time ago, and when I mention it, people often say something like “I’d love to but I couldn’t commit to never having meat again”.

You don’t have to! It’s amazing if you do, but you’re still gonna make a sizable impact on the cause you care about if you reduce your intake.

It’s odd that people don’t have this with other issues, the idea of “reducing purchases of disposable plastic” or “buying fairtrade more” make total sense to people, but food is still often cashed out in these “all or nothing” terms.

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5 points

100% spot on. I’m so tired of everything needing to be 100% or 0%. a 80% cut has an impact! so does 50%. we all need to do what we can, and not taking an extreme position doesn’t make someone a sellout or faker or whatever. every little bit helps

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a 80% cut has an impact! so does 50%.

i don’t think so. i don’t think it matters what you do in the grocery store or in a restaurant.

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I think a lot of people have a problem admitting that the consumption of certain things causes harm, which is why they turn it into an all or nothing decision. But I believe in the principle of harm reduction, and not letting perfect be the enemy of ‘better’. Or put in a more positive light, ‘every little bit helps’.

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You don’t have to be a rabid vegan to make an impact.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/meat-production-tonnes?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL

the fact is that the industry continues to grow.

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I can only control my own choices. But that fact is one of the main reasons I made that choice. It’s not sustainable.

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