But I love death

This meme changed zero minds but made a few vegans feel pretty special.

What three animals everyone else eating? We’ve got chickens, ducks, pigeons, quail, geese, cranes, turkeys, cows, deer, elk, moose, antelope, armadillo, beaver, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, lynx, bear, bison, caribou, goat, musk ox, pronghorn, sheep, muskrat, opossums, pigs, porcupine, rabbits, squirrels, pheasant, chukars, and tons of tasty insects to choose from.

I eat meat AND vegetables

I don't care for debate so I'm just gonna share this tofu stir-fry recipe I like. I sub gochujang for the sambal oelek and skip the peanut garnish

You can eat both vegetables and dead animals at the same time. We call that a stew.

Is it vegan to sit on that high horse?

Sorry, was I supposed to eat them while they are alive?

I'm French so I'd eat Kermit too.

A lot of people in the comments can't seem to make the distinction between what they have been fed since they were little and that they are used to, and what is good, or tastes good.

There's more than three affordable animals lmao. Even if you count fish as one you still have crawfish, shrimp, fish, beef, chicken, pork, lamb, venison, turkey, etc. This also doesn't even account for the million ways to prepare the meats

Who's gonna fall for this ragebait?

So you love plants? Name all plats then!

Man, here's the thing. I can't digest fermenting ogliosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols.

So no beans, mushrooms, onions garlic wheat rye or barley, apples, apricots, most berries, etc etc etc.

I also lead a "fairly" active lifestyle against my own wishes. So where does my protein come from? Meat. Chicken, eggs, and hard tofu.

If I cut meat from my diet, I'm eating three meals a day of hard tofu. What even is the point of life, then?

"You ever plow a field? To plant the quinoa or sorghum or whatever the hell it is you eat. You kill everything on the ground and under it.

You kill every snake, every frog, every mouse, mole, vole, worm, quail… you kill them all.

So, I guess the only real question is: how cute does an animal have to be before you care if it dies to feed you?”

-John Dutton

There's more than three animals that you can eat.
You don't even eat all 80000 of those plants.
Plants make excellent side dishes, unfortunately I can't spend a third of my day shoveling quinoa and lentils by the bucket load just to get enough protein, so meat it is.

I cut beef out of my diet almost entirely, both because it's unsustainable for the ecology (cattle require more resources per pound than any other animal) and because red meat isn't as good for you. Also it's expensive.

Maybe it goes to show you just how yummy those 3 animals are?

80k plants and vegans only eat like 20 anyway

Well sure. Those three dead animals all taste better than 80k dead plants.

Sorry, I'm trying. Honestly. I'm looking for vegan and vegetarian recipes and while it usually tastes "fine", it's mostly just "meh".

I don't get the hype for things like lentils or quinoa either. Both are "meh" at best.

So far, I'm unable to find meat-free recipes that truly satisfy me.

And no, I'm not a bad cook.

Tell me your reasonably priced vegan and vegetarian recipes that little children will eat, too. Serious request.

I resent that. I eat more than 3 species of animals.

capitalism does not beget a wide range of meat for the average household. people eat "the same 3 dead animals" because it's what's affordable and even that's becoming less and less true

I mean I think it's pretty telling that there are lots of plant based versions of meat based food, but not the other way around. Nobody is trying to replicate the taste of salads in meat form

If I wasn't meant to eat pigs, why is every single part of a pig so damn delicious?

All these tasty meats and people decide to eat what the food eats.

Beef/lamb/pork/chicken/seafood eater 4 life.

To be fair, one of those three animals basically perfected it's flavor to the point where everything else tastes just like it.

Most people are going to say beef, chicken, and pork.

Yet goat is the most popular meat worldwide. And I'm good with that, those weird-eyed hellspawn need to die.

I’ve eaten chicken, turkey, sheep, cow, pig, duck, rabbit, snail, deer and horse. It’s a bit more than 3, and that’s just the general category (for example, counting boars and pigs as only one type) and only land animals. If we list each fish species, crabs, squids, calamari…

ok vegan

Question: For any aspiring vegetarians/vegans, what are the best foods to ease the transition?

For instance, I'd ideally be looking for something with complete protein and few to no additional carbs, to be accompanied by the vegetable dishes I already eat. Beyond meat tastes great but still manages to find exemplary ways to be unhealthy with things like saturated fats, and probably doesn't do much to resolve any exploitation issues, though it at least appears to be a step in the right direction.

For people looking to move to vegetarianism, possibly as a bridge to veganism, could it reasonably be said that animal products from animals raised in cruelty free and free range conditions are ethical? Can any organizations assure that?

Buckwheat (must buy eastern european kind) with diced avocado thrown in and a few pinches of salt is the shiznitz.

If I had to choose only one meal to eat for the rest of my life - this would be it.

edit: buckwheat prep: boil for 10-20 mins until most of the water boils away. Add some water if it boils away too soon. Leave some water/moisture to boil away while it's cooling and not to get buckwheat burned and stuck on the pot surface. Throw in some diced avocado chunks. Add salt to bring out the buckwheat flavor. Done.

Hahahaha, what a funny meme here on c/memes. I'm literally laughing my ass off.

Potato, rice, grain... What's the rest?

Almost correct. It's 6 dead animals in my case actually

3? Really?

your grocery stores have more than 30 kinds of vegetable?

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Eat steak, eat steak eat a big ol' steer

Eat steak, eat steak do we have one dear?

Eat beef, eat beef it's a mighty good food

It's a grade A meal when I'm in the mood.

-Reverend Horton Heat

The way forward is encouraging people to try better things. The warmth and joy of food is felt through the people that make it. Affordable and accesssible healthy food is becoming a custom, so migration from processed foods is easier.

And yet the most consumed plant in the US is one that is barely edible for humans, and inedible for most the animals we feed it to.

I love taste.

It's far easier to slap a chook in the oven and end up with something delicious than what I've been able to figure out that's only plant based.

But... I haz both.

Cool, vegans are invading this community. You're all insufferable.

Frogs aren't vegan 😂

Same 3? Lol please.

I just eat what I like.

Did you want another corona? Because this is how we get more corona.

Find me a plant that tastes like a nice hamburger and I'm sold.

Most food animals would go extinct if humans stopped raising them for food. A number of food plants too.

I mean, if any of those 80,000 plants pack as much protein as any of the dead animals I'm all ears

animal nutrition > plant nutrition. Gram for gram.

and there are essential nutrients in animals that you just cannot get, from plants.

1 cow can feed a whole person for a year.

Do you know what those self-mummifying japanese monks ate to mummify themselves? Plants. Not even very many plants.

I don't want to be a mummy.

and after eating all 80.000 you'll still be hungry and feeling a bit weak...

face it, humans are omnivore we will always need both to thrive, balance is key