• AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    Who cares that people are experiencing food insecurity due to egg prices because being vegan just makes us better than them am I right?

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      I’m sure that if they look really hard in the store there are cheap bags of dried beans that would go a lot further than eggs even before the price increase.

      People facing food insecurity due to egg prices increasing are relying too much on one source of nourishment.

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        It feels disingenuous to approach this topic with the view that the eggs are the problem and people need to just eat fewer eggs.

        The problem is the food cost increases and the eggs are just one example. It’s called nuance and we’ve lost our ability to understand it. Stop trying to blame consumers for this when it is driven by profits.

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          It sounds like y’all are using the egg price as a barometer, very much the same way the French use the baguette price to talk about the economy and inflation, because it’s something everyone relates to (except the politicians that are sure to be made fun of when they get it wrong, exposing how out of touch they are with the common folk).

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            Agreed, the comment I was replying to indicated the solution was to just eat something cheaper than eggs while ignoring the fundamental issue of food costs. I was trying to highlight that in my response to that post.

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        You’re right, a single parent working three jobs definitely has the time and energy to change their food preparation habits. Definitely. Eggs being expensive is totally OK and doesn’t hurt anyone unless they’re both stupid and lazy. You’re right.

        Fucking twat …

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      Vegan is better. Go try and prove me wrong. Try from an ethical standpoint and a economical, and nutritional. Find an angle to argue that plant based diets aren’t better for everyone.

      Sitting in my chair, understanding that factory farming is propped up with government funding, and raising chickens to lay eggs is a really inefficient way to produce protein. All the space and energy to collect chicken periods and the first step is to throw half the baby chicks in a grinder because they have a dick. I can watch a video of tofu being made and not loose my appetite.

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      As someone on a normal diet I have the ability to eat whatever, even though grains and fruit trigger my inflammation and make me horribly sick, I won’t die immediately. And anyway, I can raise my own chickens around here luckily.

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      4 days ago

      NOOO MY HECKIN ANIMAL EXPLOITATION NOW I HAVE TO PAY $10 FOR A DOZEN STOLEN CHICKEN EGGS :((((((((((

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    Isn’t easier to just… stop buying eggs?

    Won’t the prices come down if people, you know, stop pushing demand for them?

    Seriously not a bad time to consider vegetarianism or veganism.

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      You say that like we don’t import a fuck ton of our produce from Mexico.

      Everything is about to get way more expensive.

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        This is why backyard and community gardens are about to get a whole lot more important. A few of us have been trying to convince my job to set one up and I’m hoping tariffs are the push we need to get it done.

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        Won’t prices come down if people, you know, stop buying vegetables?

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      Seriously not a bad time to consider vegetarianism or veganism

      But eggs are vegetarian. Avoiding meat is easy, but eggs are in a ton of recipes and not all of them work with egg substitutes

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        Which ones? I’ve yet to encounter a recipe with eggs where I couldn’t satisfyingly sub in tofu, mung bean liquid (Such as Just Egg) or starch+tapioca replacer (Such as this) depending on the egg preparation.

        Tofu is good for scrambles.
        Mung bean is good for frying.
        Stratch+tapioca is for baking.

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      Agree.

      There is a great push towards this stuff. Mostly trough the meat industry whos products getting shittier by the day.

      A good meal is texture + flavor. As long as you give me the texture and flavor I want I couldn’t care less how it is accomplished.

      And if I have the choice between 2 products who are equal in texture and flavor, I pick the option that caused less suffering in the world.

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        It’s not even a push. My elderly mother was telling me about her elderly friends who were going on “missions” to find eggs where they spent tons of gas driving around all day just trying to find eggs to buy since they’re scarce.

        It floored me. I literally said to her “do they not understand if they stop buying them the demand will decrease and so will the price?” She shrugged and agreed that it was really foolish and wasteful.

        Some people are just really ingrained in their habits and don’t even consider changing things like this in their lives.

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        I recently was at a friends house and they had made vegan chilli, NGL best chilli I’ve ever had.

        I agree with you on your food preference and it’s like a breath of fresh air encountering someone who thinks the same way about food.