#diet-plants

[pansyfemme]

Please be careful trying veganism. Pretty much every vegan I've met has had severe health issues like gastric blockages, anemia, heart failure, seizures, ect. It's really not sustainable long term, that's why most traditional vegan countries have so much malnutrition. They're basically killing themselves slowly.

me when i have zero sources

[your-werewolf-boyfriend]

Somehow even in 2025 vegans manage to be the most misinformed while claiming to be ultrarighteous

[veganfairylights]

Say what you want about plant-based capitalism, but I loooove that it makes veganism/a vegan diet a lot more accessible!

Restaurants and cafés are having more and more vegan options, every supermarket has plant milks, maybe tofu and a few mock meats etc.

A huge producer of meat products in my country has switched all their deli meats to vegan, and their long term goal is to transition to a fully vegan product line!

We are seeing a slow shift from vegetarian being the inclusive default to vegan being the inclusive default.

We obviously still have years and years and years to go, but just 5 years ago there was so much less variety of fun vegan food!

[eatclean-bewhole]

Did you know that pharmaceutical companies often attempt to replicate the benefits of plants in their synthetic drugs or even use plant-based ingredients in their formulations?

For example, aspirin—a common pain reliever—is derived from the bark of the willow tree, which has been used for centuries to reduce pain and inflammation. Another well-known drug, digoxin, which treats heart conditions, comes from the foxglove plant. Even quinine, a key treatment for malaria, was originally sourced from the bark of the cinchona tree.

Despite this, pharmaceutical companies often synthetically replicate plant compounds to patent and profit from them, rather than relying solely on the natural source. These companies tweak molecules or combine elements in ways that allow them to create patented versions, profiting from nature’s original remedies.

By harnessing the power of plants and nutrition directly, we can experience these benefits without the side effects of synthetic drugs.

[veganfoody]

Vegan Christmas Pudding Recipe

[chipped-chimera]

Little Hunter.

[muffinlance]

Read "Suki, Alone". Liked it in general. But can they please, please hire someone who knows both the show's actual events and how to follow through on a character arc? Because guys. Guys. That comic is not implying about Suki what they meant it to be implying, and all because of literally one line.

So like. From a writer's standpoint:

What they meant to do: show Suki as a community-oriented person who cares for her people, and believes in everyone succeeding together.

As opposed to (spoilers): the thief girl they set her up in contrast with, who's pretty upfront and consistent on primarily looking out for herself. She betrays Suki for one (1) corn chip to improve her own life at the prison, no surprise.

But the problem is: they give Suki an inspirational line to the effect of "we're all working together and we'll all break out together"

You know

The thing she does not do in the show

So if both the show and this comic are canon, then instead of setting up a compare/contrast with the thief girl, they've just set up a comparison. One were Suki is arguably worse, because she's been leading a significant number of prisoners on with her "we'll all fight and win our freedom together!" business, only to straight up cut them out of the escape loop and abandon them, whereas the thief is only leading Suki on in the sense that Suki keeps telling her what it's morally correct to think and confuses snide replies with agreement

My dudes. My fellow writers. You people actually being paid for this. There were so many ways to fix those awful implications against our girl's character, the simplest of which would be to not include that line. Or they could have, you know, made it canon compliant with what actually happens in the show, so that this comic doesn't set Suki up as a betrayer instead of a community builder. Like... just send all her good prison buddies off to other prisons in the wake of the warden finding out they're colluding. Have it timed to be right before the next new prisoners arrive, thus setting it immediately before the Boiling Rock episodes, so Suki didn't have anyone left in the prison she'd want to take with her on a breakout. For bonus points, include a page or two of her and her Kyoshi warriors opening up the cell of one of her prison friends post-war, thus implying she's tracking down and actually fulfilling her promises. Maybe even show her doing the same with thief girl, who was established as being imprisoned on false charges anyway, and also showing that Suki is A) the bigger person, and B) willing to acknowledge her own role in mistakes (because I cannot emphasize enough how much thief girl was not hiding her own priorities, and it was Suki who approached HER with all this, not the girl ever doing anything special to weasel her way in) (this would also open up an opportunity for paralleling Suki's earlier in-comic mistake of not listening to one of her friend's very valid thoughts and feeling, which lead to the girl leaving their island alone pre-canon; a "seeing people as they are, not what you want them to be" moment)

Anyway yeah enjoyable enough for a quick read but another one for the "this can't be canon or the characters are So Much Worse than they were in the actual show" pile

At least Aang didn't promise to murder anyone in this one

[oediex]

Cutting out as many animal products from your life as you can is probably the most effective thing that you, as an individual, can do to fight the climate crisis.

I know many of you feel like there is nothing you can personally do to battle the climate crisis, but this is one of them. This, you can do. However small your contribution is, it will make a difference.

You don't have to do it all at once. Take your time. There are plenty of resources online, and I know it can be overwhelming, but again, take your time. If you need help, feel free to send me an ask or a message, or other vegans on here like @acti-veg (in fact, check out www.acti-veg.com). We are experienced vegans and have been living on a plant-based diet for years.

You don't have to figure it out on your own. You won't be doing something no-one has done before you. We are here and happy to help you.

Yes, it will be a change. Yes, you will have to learn new things. But you can be part of the solution. This is something you can do.

Source for data & relevant quotes below:

Eating a vegan diet massively reduces the damage to the environment caused by food production, the most comprehensive analysis to date has concluded. The research showed that vegan diets resulted in 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than diets in which more than 100g of meat a day was eaten. Vegan diets also cut the destruction of wildlife by 66% and water use by 54%, the study found.

However, it turned out that what was eaten was far more important in terms of environmental impacts than where and how it was produced. Previous research has shown that even the lowest-impact meat – organic pork – is responsible for eight times more climate damage than the highest-impact plant, oilseed.

Prof Peter Scarborough at Oxford University, who led the research, published in the journal Nature Food, said: “Our dietary choices have a big impact on the planet. Cutting down the amount of meat and dairy in your diet can make a big difference to your dietary footprint.”

The researchers who conducted the new study said diets enabling global food production to be sustainable would mean people in rich nations “radically” reducing meat and dairy consumption. They said other ways of reducing the environmental impact of the food system, such as new technology and cutting food waste, would not be enough.

[vegan-nom-noms]

Fruit Leather Recipe

[transrevolutions]

something that does have to be said and acknowledged is that there are people who cannot go vegetarian or vegan. there are people with disabilities/dietary restrictions that make being vegetarian or vegan categorically impossible in our current world.

this is why the solution to the evils of factory farming and industrial animal agriculture can't just be "everyone goes vegan and we transition to a plant-based diet as a species". if we did that some people would starve and die.

[copperbadge]

Other people getting farmshare boxes: This will get more vegetables in my diet and help me eat more healthfully!

Me when I open my farmshare box: It’s time to play Can I Fry This Plant.

[plant-diets2savehumans]

Hmmmmmm … what do we think about this, internet?

[hashtagveganproblems]

Vegan Veggie Stir-Fry

Check out the 🌱VegansBeLike Discord server🌱 for more!

[danieyells]

"Boss, this is an intervention. A medical intervention."

[veganfoody]

Vegan Yaki Udon