If most vegan dishes were re-named as a new food instead of mocking real food, they would probably be more popular and accepted.

there's like 4 genocides going on in the world right now and this being the hill people choosing to die on is a big reason for me.

Don't get me wrong, I believe a vegetable based diet is the correct way to go, I eat a small amount of meat in the first place and promote everyone to at least cut back meat consumption.

But the world is so fucked with a million things going wrong every second, and certain people in my life going on day in day out about how this is the biggest issue on the planet and everyone suddenly going vegan will fix the world is such a simplified and misdirected view of the world I just can't take it seriously. It dilutes the actual benefits and it comes off as less of something they choose to do not because it's actually a good thing and instead because it gives them a soapbox to stand on and feel holier than thou.

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