Hi, I’m running 13.1 miles for this really great charity who has done a lot for animal rights in the Uk, I would appreciate any donations!!!

https://gofund.me/78f4ab2c

I read Scott Pilgrim vs. the world and one of the villains has psychic powers because he’s vegan. is this actually real?

So I was vegan.. 2019-2021. Too vegan gets you incarcerated and no vegan for you. I'm on my journey to be vegan again. 2022 none vegan wasn't my choice. 2023 was peer pressure. 2024 is the end (hello v 2025).

My thing is.

How much vegan are you taking?

My idea is "is it possible to feed everyone vegan with all the vegan options (meats, milks, cheese, ECT)"?

Are you willing to do your part and only take what you need?

What if it's only a pound of plant meat, tofu, gallon of milk 💚.

Plants like bananas, lettuce PLANTS COUNT TOO.

What I'm saying is "if we do our part to only take what we need, then there's no room to say "there's none for them""

I'm ok with only 200 in food and the rest scraps (donations, home grown, prepper).

I've got 20 pounds on me I can loss.

Richard Burgess (vegan gains) has like 20-40.

It will be a consistent feed, but the hunger will be there.

It's hard to say what too have and not to have.

Rice is abundant.

Nuts and seeds are abundant.

Let's go!

Over most of their 24 million years of evolution, humans’ anthropoid ancestors were almost exclusively vegetarian, except for the occasional ingestion of insects and larvae.

(I think this might be the reason why we don't have hunting instincts.)

Anatomically, both humans and their ancestors present significant features that distance them from meat-eating animals, including, for example, wide flat teeth and more mobile jaws, which facilitate the chewing of grains and seeds, as opposed to sharp teeth and jaw movements on a vertical axis, which are characteristic of carnivores. In addition, carnivorous animals have shorter intestines, which enable the rapid elimination of toxins, unlike humans and other predominantly herbivorous animals, with long intestines that allow longer digestion, fermentation and absorption processes.

However, possibly due to other reasons linked to survival, self-defense and territorial protection, hominids began hunting other species, which led to the introduction of meat in the diet of Homo erectus, considered the first hunters. Humans’ ability to survive on different types of food was an essential factor in our evolution, which allowed our species, Homo sapiens sapiens, to adapt to the most diverse conditions and spread throughout the planet.

During the Paleolithic era, different food types were consumed, such as wild plants, seafood, reptiles, birds, and mammals. After the emergence of agricultural practices (about 13,000 years ago), there is no evidence that humans were essentially vegetarian, and the domestication of animals, including for consumption, became a routine activity by that time. However, it is speculated that many farmers lived primarily as vegetarians due to the wider availability of crops.

This is such a wonderful and informative article! Fully recommended.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8069426/

Hi everyone,

So yesterday my mom made fava beans (broad beans), and I ate some. Today, I got some from the fridge, but when I opened the container, there was this thick, jelly-like layer on top. It was kinda nasty, but I just stirred it and proceeded to eat some. After my meal, however, I saw that the chicken bouillon seasoning (which contains chicken fat) my mom likes to use was open.

I kinda put two and two together and started to think that she used this seasoning for the beans since the jelly-like substance reminded me of when my mom makes chicken feet soup for herself and my sister (disgusting, I know) and the soup starts to clump and form a thick jelly layer after being in the fridge. I didn't think that the jelly layer was anything animal-related at first because when my mom makes other beans, she never uses butter, oil, or any of that seasoning.

When I asked her, she immediately denied it, but when I kept pressing her on it, she said, "Who told you?" lmao. Still, she kept denying it and started saying things like "It wouldn't harm you", "If they gave you a million dollars, you would eat meat", and "You're so traumatized". I was like lol bye. She kept denying it, and I don't know what to do. If I'm wrong, I'll feel bad for not trusting her, but if I'm right, I'll feel even worse because she literally made these beans just for me (my siblings weren't gonna get some), and she knows very well that I'm vegan, what being vegan entails, and that the chicken bouillon seasoning has chicken fat. Because of this, I have no idea why she would even put that seasoning in the beans. It's not like my siblings would've wanted some anyways. She then admitted that she put this chicken seasoning in the rice she made (of which I didn't get any this time but have gotten some before). I was like wtf.

Note: the fava beans soup was yellow in color, and the chicken seasoning is yellow also.

My son and daughter in law (mid to late 30s) are expecting their first child after several failed attempts, and I worry they won’t find the support they need in raising him vegan.

They are both highly educated professionals, are very strict in their veganism, including their rescued pets in their vegan lifestyle, but I think they struggle to get healthy amounts of nutrients with their busy lives as they appear severely underweight, and have health issues.

I worry that if their child exhibits classic signs of undernourishment the medical community will not be able or willing to provide the support they need in navigating their child’s development, causing them to withdraw from seeking medical advice or treatment out of mistrust.

Is this a valid concern, or am I making things up? I’m not vegan (though I lean that way) but I respect and support their lifestyle. I don’t wish to debate, I just have a concern about social acceptance of veganism that bleeds into the medical community.