#semi inspired by that post i just reblogged but mostly just me being angry bc i am poor

[hiimcanadia]

As someone who literally gets sick from eating meat and cheese I do think that it fucking sucks that despite vegetarian/vegan diets being pretty mainstream they're still incredibly expensive and difficult to follow. Like, the summer I stopped eating meat I had peanut butter sandwiches almost every day because it was the cheapest way for me to still get protein, and I developed anaemia because almost nothing I was eating had any iron in it. I've been getting most of my food from food banks for the past few months and the only things that they consistently have that don't have any meat or dairy in them are vegetable soup and canned corn. I love that Walmart sells meatless chicken nuggets but they cost twice as much as regular chicken does. I love that there are entire blogs full of vegetarian and vegan recipes but I can't afford any of the ingredients. Diets are always treated like some sort of luxury even when plenty of people on them literally do not have a choice and need to do it to keep themselves healthy, or, in many cases, alive