I know all these options are out there, but I find it hard to believe the average person is eating 10+ different animals in a week.
Sure. But if someone isn’t eating a varied diet, becoming vegan or vegetarian isn’t going to fix that.
It could actually help, inadvertently. When I became vegan I could no longer fall back on my old comfort meals without modifying them. Limitations breed creativity.
Why does food have to be so varied on a weekly basis? Eating twenty different vegetables every week doesn’t make my life any better than just eating the several few kinds I enjoy and find healthy. Same with meat, but I have great variety monthly when I feel like it, same as with fruits and vegetables. That’s enough for me.
And besides, those 80,000 edible plants just don’t fill you up like those 3 meats do, in taste or substance.
If we include seafood, I definitely do.
But to be fair, I don’t think the average person is eating that varied a diet. I am not going to make the claim people on a plant-based diet can’t get protein, they can, but they probably aren’t getting 10+ different sources of it either.
