#what vegans buy

[x-carrotcake]

It’s so good. My favorite is apple lemon. If you live in Poland, you can buy it in biedronka

#vegan #vegan food #food #veganism #vegans #plant based #vegan ice cream #ice cream #sorbet #fruit pop #poland #polska #polish store #vegan inspo #what vegans buy #what vegans eat

[khizuo]

you guys are seriously not close to doing anything revolutionary if you can't change your fucking consumption habits lol

#aka: go vegan and stop buying from places with known human rights abuses #develop sustainable networks of community care and support #'oh but what about xyz demographic' shut the fuck up #everyone does the most they can. i won't judge anyone who can't do anything for their health and well-being #but a lot of you could be doing better and simply don't choose to #my text

[gaypornluvr420]

and are these child slave quinoa vegans in the room with us right now

#i know some probably exist but most vegans are very conscious abt where they get their food from #i’ve seen vegan recipe website comments sections tear the cook to SHREDS for using hershey or nestle or anything in that vein #and can we stop pretending that non vegans don’t also buy food produced by slavery. #where do you think most of your food and clothes come from?? do you think only vegan products use slavery?? #EVERYONE needs to be more aware of where they’re buying things from because there’s so much more #slavery going on than ppl in developed countries would think #i didn’t know until i started looking into it bc obviously no one wants to talk abt it #and guess what!! vegans are usually the ones raising awareness abt corporations using slavery or treating their workers badly!! #bc the whole point of the lifestyle is compassion!!! so holy shit stop treating us like we’re the bad guys #bc vegans annoyed you once or bc you feel guilty abt eating animal products and are trying to make yourself #feel better by shitting on us #sry i just saw a post i otherwise agreed with but it kept mentioning “child slave quinoa vegans and im so sick of ppl talking abt this #phenomena that doesn’t really exist. #also no i don’t hate non vegans i know it can be more difficult and expensive etc. whatever.

[lobotomyladylives]

hi! in regards to your dilemma about what oil to use, the rule of thumb i've found is to avoid using seed oil unless its wood-pressed and/or cold-pressed, which unfortunately is more expensive. usually olive oils is a safe one, since it comes from the 'fruit' for a lack of a better word.

also ghee is great as a cooking medium, if you're not vegan! a lot of indian stores usuallly sell them at better prices than mainstream supermarkets.

good luck for healthy eating!

Thanks! Yeah I've always used a ton of olive oil in cold preparation & low heat cooking, but I only recently read that all seed oils are bad. I used to use canola oil in cooking quite a lot but now I use butter, ghee, olive oil & occasionally avocado oil. The main problem is that seed oils are in sooo much store bought stuff that I didn't even realize was unhealthy and ultraprocessed. They really add it to fucking everything it's so annoying! Even a lot of plant based milks which I thought were healthy are full of disgusting crap so I'm sticking to dairy milk now.

#i only buy dairy milk from local farms that i know treat the animals well tho so it gets expensive so i dont use it that much #like i dont eat cereal or anything so i mainly just put it in tea #eating healthy is challenging enough but eating healthy AND cruelty free is SO hard #im almost entirely vegetarian bc i find eating animals unsavory but every so often when my iron levels are low i just #CANNOT fight the burger cravings. typical american #basically im not vegan but i believe what they believe lol. im just lazy & depressed i cant stick to eating plans 100% of the time #asks

[moralomnivore]

Stop paying animal abusers to abuse animals.

That's the post.

#i'm not even going to say you have to go vegan specifically (even though that's the only logical conclusion i see to this idea) #if you think you care about animals but buy factory meat when you have any other option you have absolutely no regard for the animals #you know what happens to them and if you don't then you know how to find out and i am so sick of being asked to tolerate that ~☆choice☆~ #pork #chicken #(could tag other meats but those are the industries where i can 99% guarantee you are subjecting the animals to pure hell)

[slippery-minghus]

oh no. i feel like if i do not consume an entire load of bread in the very near future i will simply cease to exist.

#very uh. very worried about my finances right now #like. i'm fine. i have some savings. but i also just got to put something into my savings for the first time in a VERY long time and now #now i immediately have to take it out #and i'm getting stressed out about buying groceries #because if i dip into my savings here what about there? where is the line? #and i owe so much to taxes but i can't exactly afford getting less of my pay...... #my last paycheck was $0.66 more than my rent #my insurance is refusing to reimburse the last of my electrolysis visits from last year and like #i'm SO over the fight but that's $120. that i really actually kinda need? #and i'm starting to get that funny in the head feeling about wondering how i'm going to feed myself #i still feel so much shame about that funeral i went to years ago and my only thought during the reception after was about #how there was just so much food and i could actually eat my fill #i have leftovers for dinner tonight and it's fine but.... making a lovely vegan dish wasn't the best choice tbh #i feel like if i don't have a large helping of bread and meat i'm going to go insane #and it really REALLY doesn't help that i've apparently lost the ability to eat in the mornings #so i'm at quite a significant fuel deficit and it's stacking #but no matter how hungry i am in the morning the concept of processing solid food is just repulsive and daunting #eating a clif bar at 9am would take literally all of my spoons for the day #i was looking at protein shakes since i can handles *drinking* breakfast #but the cheapest one that meets my dietary requirements is $35 for a 12pack #and i'm uh. i'm worrying over spending $10 on produce this week #personal #and nevermind that i don't have the spoons to even GO shopping (: #(on an aside i switched back to my regular melatonin gummies last night and i Actually Slept. so hopefully that will continue and help some) #i just want to curl up in a ball on the floor and have someone gently place a roll of bread and hunk of cheese next to me in my enclosure #also it's photophobia season and i still feel like i haven't recovered from saturday #got too much sunlight and was nauseaus for half the day #my body feels so bad

[stellernorth]

sam going vegan at stanford. no more hunting people saving things has left him with a compulsion to Do Good and Reduce Harm in his day to day life, and after traveling the midwest constantly as a kid he has some idea of what beef feedlots at least look like. he decides one way to reduce harm is to stop supporting the killing of those animals.

so he stops eating beef. it's not like he's only eating fast food still and hamburgers are the only option anyway; he eats at the stanford dining hall. there's pumpkin soup and oatmeal and a salad bar and curry and plain pasta and fruit and fries.

then he thinks about it and decides to treat this decision like a little bit of a case. so he goes to the library and researches for himself which is a weird kind of not-exactly-nostalgia. and he learns about the factory farming industry and dairy production. and he doesn't do half-measures and he's trying to be committed to his choices and beliefs so he decides there in the library that he's vegan, starting from that moment.

socially, he expects to be the odd one out anyway, he's seen that way anyway, he knows it; he can feel it. how he's a little too alert; how his casual interactions with others aren't a practiced reflex. refusing some food just seems like another small thing in the long list of reasons he's unusual to the other students, even his friends.

anyway, jess, who's been vegetarian for awhile, likes that he's vegan. she eats vegan at their house, but will have some dairy if she's out somewhere. it bothers sam a little in the back of his mind but he doesn't want to control her. and he knows their belief systems aren't exactly aligned anyway; he's always scanning for monsters.

brady makes fun of him a little once or twice, playful, friendly. then after sophmore year's thanksgiving break he makes a few more comments that are a bit more cruel.

although dean made sure sam never was hungry for long as a kid, this new mentality that the food selection in many places is now limited for sam comes pretty easily. the sparse vegan options in the stanford dining hall are a way more plentiful spread than the options in one of the motel rooms he grew up in.

sam does get a weird sense of simultaneous satisfaction and guilt at seeing hamburgers like he'd share with his dad and dean and knowing, more and more as the months go on, that he's not the kind of person who eats them anymore. but he feels that way about a lot of things he does at stanford.

then years later, keeping to veganism as best he can, back in the family business (he keeps reminding himself, "as far as possible and practical"), he meets ruby. for the most part, he keeps his own personal definition of veganism and decides about eating things like honey on his own terms, rather than by what others seem to think. but he does remember dryly, as his mouth is metallic with ruby's blood, that human products are accepted as vegan if given consensually. later he thinks somehow maybe it's vegan for her to give it but not for him to take; maybe he is the animal harmed in the interaction.

time goes on and he's more wary than ever of being poisoned possesed altered he wants his body to be his own. this becomes another reason to be vegan, not consuming other beings into his body so it remains his.

#well it’s probably hard to be vegan in 2002 #he likes salads tho #i Do Not Know what the vegan media was pre-2010 actually i shld learn #no dominion? no earthlings? no omnivore's dilemma? let me google when ''eating animals'' is from #it's from 2009. whoag #all they [pre2009 vegans] had was that propaghandi song... #anyway it's my blog and i can vegan sam post #post i made #sam winchester #stanford era #vegannatural #vegan sam winchester #long post #food #ask to tag #oh bc i referance it ‘as far as possible and practical’ is the vegan society’s definition of how much vegans should exclude animal products #so it varies person to person but the idea is if a person needs medication that’s animal tested or the only food they have the means to buy #has animal products and they’re being vegan in other respects that’s still considered vegan

[turtlesandfrogs]

A bunch of people just started following me, so I just want you to know- I don't just post politics. My blog is an amalgamation of weird ass eclectic shit. I mean, to me it seems like there's a central theme, probably, but I think from the outside that's pretty opaque.

Anyway, here's how to make tempeh starter, in case like me there's someone out there who wants to get started, but saw the price of starter online and was like, that's not economical! I did start by buying some, but now I just keep it going myself, which is very economical.

1. Slice off a couple strips from a fresh batch of fresh tempeh, let them fully mature until you see the black stuff. The black stuff is the mature, sporulating fungi. At this point, I stick it in my dehydrator, because I live in a very moist climate. If you live somewhere where towels dry on their own, you might not need a dehydrator.

2. Weigh and then chop up the slices once they're very dry and feel light:

3. Either use a mortar and pestle or a food processor to grind it up as small as you can. Then, add double the weight of the tempeh of white rice flour (that acts as fungi's first food when you start a batch):

4. Sift out the chunks & put in a jar for later use:

Seeing as you need a teaspoon for each 500g batch, that's pretty economical.

#tempeh #diy tempeh starter #frugal vegan #fermenting #it's waaaaaaaay better tasting than what i can buy in the store

[snekdood]

at some point in the future:

*non vegan reading about a new vegan leather*: psh. bet it has plastic in it tho.

*scrolls down and finds out theres 0 plastic. the non vegan gets angry since now theres finally a vegan leather they dont get to complain about*: psh, bet it doesnt feel like real leather tho.

*scrolls down to find out the creators of this leather spent a lot of time to make it more "like real leather*: psh, bet they exploit their workers tho

just say you want to use animal leather and you were never going to consider an alternative in the first place, bud

#bc ik for a damn fact plenty a yall are gonna do this. #excuses excuses #ooo but im sure all that leather you buy is totally not from exploited workers either #im sure you take Great Care making sure its not 😒 #and if you do. great for you! why do you think human lives and comfort is more important than animal lives and comfort btw? #you'll do anything to avoid hurting exploited workers yes? but having anything vegan now and then is just. off the table. am i right? #am i correct? have i read you for filth? #and then you'll tell me 'no ethical consumption under capitalism' yet you still try to avoid buying from exploited workers- #so seems like more or less you just say that to avoid feeling any guilt about eating or contributing to the harm of animals? #just say you value human lives more and move on. #'no ethical consumption' to some people means 'i get to say this to excuse any behaviors i do that exploit others and to justify #why im only considerate about 1 (one) thing when it comes to buying stuff' #but what if you could do more than that though- clearly you only buy from places that dont exploit their workers bc of your morals and #not bc you think it actually changes things if you believe in the 'no ethical consumption' argument #so why cant you ever acknowledge that you're harming animals or try to make excuses for why its fine? ik deep down it conflicts with #your moral outlook too. you're selective about what you think you can change because theres some stuff you're unwilling to change. #be real. its not because of capitalism. you think meat tastes good and you like how leather makes you feel Cool and Badass or whatever #you feel Punk and Rock And Roll for wearing dead animals. never mind that that fascination is hard to distinguish from southern right #wingers who love their snakeskin cowboy boots and hunt for sport. #they also feel Very Cool for wearing dead animals 😒 bb girl you're not as counter culture and punk as you think you're coming off as #at least native ppl dont generally do it to Feel Cool

[kath-artic]

why did i think i would find anyone with even half a brain in the comment section of an ig post of two women in fur coats .

#'this will influence people to buy new furs' girl no one is goijg to do that. and if they were it wouldnt be bc of this post #and all the people saying 'i hope its fake. real is trashy' #as if it being plastic thatll become unusable in a few years is somehow better than something biodegradable that lasts for decades #and its always those white people that think you can make your dogs go vegan or whatever #absolutely no actual concept of what a functioning ecosystem looks like bc they view themselves as wholly outside of it

[rhinco]

not about any recent post but its always so funny to me when you rb posts about eating meat and using leather in an animal welfare way, knowing youre vegetarian. youre an ally....

HELP so true. i'm an ally.. i support meat eaters... ❤

#ask tag / anon #to be transparent im not Strictly vegetarian #i eat fish a fair amount #and gelatin #and. im honestly not sure if not using leather counts as a vegetarian thing or if its just vegan? #but yeah i buy leather products if i can #bc they last longer and are way better for the environment #and to go on a bit of a tangent. i actually think about eating meat a fair amount because i was raised vegetarian so ive only had meat like #twice in my life maybe #and i dont remember what it was like #and i dont know if i'd be vegetarian if i hadn't been raised it #but im glad i was i think. idk #anyways #either way. animal welfare and the environment are important to me

[engagedtobefree]

It's really strange to me how some people only criticize plastic through the lens of it being "vegan plastic", as if non-vegans aren't also using plastic products, including fake leather. The same with slave labor and crops. Like I've literally seen someone say how harmful vegan vegetables are in agriculture and I'm just like, do you only eat meat??? Do you not eat vegetables??? I just don't understand the whole "if you're vegan and not using animal products then you love slave labor and plastic". Consuming animal products doesn't automatically mean you're not using plastic or buying anything that was produced from slave labor in the same way that being vegan doesn't mean animals aren't getting killed somewhere along in the process of you getting food on your plate. Also, using animal products doesn't automatically mean good for the environment, cuz usually somewhere along the way there's some type of harmful process being used.

I think maybe people don't realize just how ingrained plastic is. It's not some evil vegan villain wearing head-to-toe pleather that is upholding the plastic industry. Take a look around the room and identify everything you see that is plastic. Then think about all the plastic you don't see. And is it really only vegans buying from shein, temu, forever 21, etc? For some people, that's all they can afford, but for so many other people that isn't the case. Is it really so hard to acknowledge that it's literally an exploitative, capitalistic world that has done all of this and NOT vegans? Is it so hard to acknowledge that we all take part in these harmful practices in some way because they've been so interwoven into our society that there's no way to avoid it? What is so difficult to understand about any of that? At this point, I'm half-convinced some billionaires got together and brainstormed on "Who can we blame" and then collectively decided on vegans, and unfortunately some people actually took the bait.

Also, these arguments constantly erase poor people unless it's framed in the context of the vegan diet not being affordable to everyone. Organic, sustainable, fair-trade etc etc products are not cheap. It's not only vegan products that can be non-affordable.

This whole moral superiority (and also flat-out cruelty to each other) can be on BOTH sides and it's really frustrating that the one side won't admit it. Eating meat doesn't automatically make you a saint and non-complicit in harmful practices in the same way being a vegan doesn't either.

It's just...people. People are the worst. The only way to save the planet is for us to literally go extinct.

#Also no one ever admits they eat factory farmed meat #Everyone on all of the posts and threads I've ever been on claims to get local meat #And there's just no way #I know every country has different practices but it can't be that all of the comments I've seen were from people not in the USA #Also idk why people automatically assume a vegan mentioning animal cruelty is automatically an attack on indigenous practices?? #I know there's probably vegans out there who do attack them #But I've only ever seen people bring it up when literally not a single person on either side mentioned indigenous people #I think most people regardless of lifestyle choices really just want natives to be able to practice in ways they want to #I also never see meat-eaters acknowledge that some people can't have animal products #Only ever the other way around #Even before I went vegan I have not been able to have dairy since 2018 #Like I need to use alternative milk #And like back when I was really poor I could barely afford to eat #If my grocery bill went over $20 in a week I had to worry about which bill I was going to have to pay late or skip over #Like my focus was on my survival and not whether something I was buying was harmful in some way #Anyway #It's just so weird to me as I read through comments on posts how people get so angry #Literally read someone say fuck you to a non-vegan person who was only trying to say there's no way to avoid harm on either side #Like what #I see much crueler stuff come from non-vegans than vegans #Even before I went vegan #Honestly people being so cruel towards vegans was a part of the reason I became one #Because I was always led to believe vegans were the worst #But as I started engaging with more posts and whatnot #I realized it was actually not true #Idk if that's happened with anyone else or not lol #And out of all the online vegan communities I've been on #Really the only shitty one was on Reddit tho I haven't checked that sub in a long time #Vegan #Personal

[aurpiment]

obsessed with all your extremely detailed and specific dreams. and your intense subconscious parasocial relationship with uklg. respect

🫡

Thank you. I am honestly having a lot of fun here. Even when it’s a stress dream about having to impress uklg’s surviving relatives, because the absurdity of the scenario is always funny in retrospect. It is inherently a silly genre of stress dream to have.

💬 Readers have added context they think people might want to know:

I live NOWHERE near Portland

#mt #asks #Sybilvimes #the daughter I had to buy an ikea lamp for wasn’t even a real Le Guin daughter. Her name was like… Katherine I think? #also in the dream where I befriended a likewise not real granddaughter #I got invited to a Sunday grill/picnic thing where there were MORE RELATIVES #i was like UH OH #also in the dream where I had to buy a burger for the random Kroeber grandnephew #he was chill and very progressive and appropriately critical of his great grandparents’ legacy #we had an interesting conversation but I forget what we talked about #but he was also a vegan and I had to find him like. a veggie or bean burger? but we were at five guys #I was like I can’t make this guy eat Just Fries for lunch there has to be a veggie burger option here somewhere please please please #I woke up and told my girlfriend about the dream and she was like #manny it’s okay I’m sure (grandnephew I made up’s name) would think you were cool and normal #but AM I? that’s the question Gdhfjfjfjf #dreams

[justaholeinmysoul]

Some of yall really don't know what it means to be working class in some countries. Yes maybe we can afford little "luxuries" from time to time but that doesn't make people rich or capable to completely boycott the low costs companies.

#what is middle class does it exist and working class is all poor or just can't afford certain stuff? it's more complicated now than ever #and yet yes labour should be payed right it isn't and life costs a shitton of money and people are like i rather buy this than eat bc yolo #who are you to judge tho? ik it's a vicious circle but it's also quite classist to think that we should boycott shein or McDonald's bc #they're evil but cheap and we want to pay according to what we get. do u think speculation isn't a thing even w ethical stuff #omg people don't want to pay 400 euros for vegan jeans or 8900 dollars for a painting they want free ai art shame shame #maybe people want things they can't afford and should just settle yk i can't afford a Ferrari oh well and then comes china w a fake ferrari #that costs 3 dollars and ur like mmmh and the ferrari was built by children and maybe ur evil or maybe laws can step in #and create an option in the middle #it's not always poor people greed or fomo fault if they want to have something more at a lower price #do u really think that everything expensive that says it's fair and good really is? based on what #a.i. is so hated but it's trained on what's popular in what humans value and artists are so pretentious so who's really evil #usians wouldnt understand yall pay everything will to pay demand to pay more..u dont even get the concept of bargain and that sets the tone

[cruelsister-moved2]

what you eat has an impact on the environment thats just a fact. how u choose to mitigate that might be trying to use locally sourced produce, it might be growing your own, it might be reducing meat intake, it might be supporting community food initiatives, it might just be buying un-packaged produce or avoiding out-of-season fruit, or maybe ur not in a position to do anything. but stop fucking listening to people who tell you that the other regular people who choose to do a different thing from this list than you do are the enemy to distract you from who’s really creating the problem. if you spend more time railing at vegans than you do at monsanto and cargill and ADM then you’re literally falling into the same trap as someone who makes 40k and complains about the minimum wage being increased

#a lot of u guys are straight up brainwashed and think its really leftist somehow who else cringed #DISCLAIMER this is not to say white vegans dont do stupid racist things #but to argue that white vegans are not more racist as a group than like other white people #like. have the same reaction when indigenous land is taken over for animal agriculture #i think its very weird and sad to make it a competition rather than recognising corporate food production as the shared proble #and if u actually care abt farmers then get mad at john deere lol #i cant stand the either/or thing w vegetarianism/veganism #when someones like oh ur vegetarian to mitigate the impact on the environment?? ummm what about [vegetable that can be farmed unethically]?? #girl do you not fucking eat vegetables??get help #also so many of them are just not true like the quinoa thing is sooo annoying because its not true #no one even knows exactly what they think is wrong with quinoa theyre just lke umm isnt it bad #actually one of the biggest concerns quinoa farmers have is that the fad won't last and then they'll be plunged into poverty #and the soy thing everyone repeats okay well again. vegans arent responsible for the majority of soy consumption but also #consumption literally accounts for like 5% of soy production #most of it is for ANIMAL FEED and biofuels. #the same applies to like vegans who get mad at people who buy locally sourced meat etc etc but tahts not what i see on this website #i mean anyone whos getting mad at regular ppl over literally trying to do something good for the environment is an idiot