• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    20 days ago

    Instead of trying to switch over to highly processed vegan product that tries to emulate beef or chicken using tons of additives and scientifically engineered flavours and textures … why not just start eating actual wholesome vegetables and legumes with high protein content like lentils or beans.

    If the cost of meat products is starting to match the cost of expensive meat substitutes … it probably matches the cost of just eating expensive raw vegetables and beans too.

    Humans have been eating high protein vegetables for centuries and it is way more healthier for you than whatever factory produced vegetable mash.

    • xploit@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Oh I know this one, it’s pretty simple. Considering I at least try to give my meals some taste (by adding spices I feel like adding, theres no real skill or logic I use) I do realize that a lot of “western” people don’t really know anything past salt and pepper, when it comes to meal preparation. At best maybe drown the food in some basic premade condiment like ketchup, mayo, etc.

      So asking people to eat vegetables, just for them to turn around and say they taste bland and aren’t worth it, and they don’t know how to make it taste good or even try, is not going to get them to ditch meat.

      Humans wanna eat stuff that satisfies more than just hunger now, you know that, unless they have absolutely no choice in what they eat. Nobody is gonna eat anything healthy when equally priced alternatives taste better and require less effort.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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        20 days ago

        Salt, pepper, soy sauce, salt and herb mixes, vinegars. Yeah that covers most of it. At least the herbs I grow myself now, sage, garlic and rosemary