#vegan is fucking hard

[anythingandeverythingallofthe]

Photo of cure lil baby goats at my inlaws’ for attention.

So I’m trying my very best to be vegan in Ghana (4 years) and I tell you its not easy. Non supportive husband being my major struggle. He gets angry if I spend money on vegan alternatively (not that there are many. I have found only tofu and some vegan sausages that tasted horrible. Some canned food can be ordered from capital city).

My main source of protein is beans and pea protein powder that i asked my parents to bring from abroad. Food gets incredibly one way. Especially now that Im working a lot more than before and have no time or Energy to cook.

This Christmas I had to work online like 10-12 hours a day even Christmas eve. I had no time for cooking. Luckily we spend our holidays with my inlaws so the rest of the family gets to eat. But since my inlaws have no idea what a vegan is I had to eat toast for Christmas dinner. Well, its not their fault. I am very grateful to be here and would never complain to them.

I could have in theory go look for food at a roadside shop. Someone might sell beans. But my husband get angry if I don’t eat the same food with him. He claims this breaks the unity of the family. Also cholera is going round so roadside food might be a bad idea anyway.

I’m so sad and tired and angry at myself of not being able to eat animals. Angry at the damn cowspiracy film i saw. Wishing I could go back and take the red pill and forget everything. i’m so tired and sad and dissapointed.

[veganymph]

eating meat is not a personal choice when there’s another party involved. if we applied that logic to everything we eat, then it’d be perfectly fine to eat people because it’s just my personal preference chill out. cows, chickens, pigs and all other animals do not want to die or be in pain. you don’t get to change that over a ‘personal choice’

[blujayonthewing]

every so often I think about how my dad was doing ethical veganism for, like, seven solid years and spent the whole time talking about how he just couldn't stand to eat meat anymore because he's an empath and how the use of animal products is literally never and has never been morally excusable under any circumstances and then one day was like 'I bought a grill! check out these sick ribs I just made!' so extremely suddenly that all three of us kids were like '....?? .... meat ribs.....???' and when I finally asked him what was up he sent a shrug emoji and said he wanted to lose weight so he started keto

[sereniv]

OP asked if weed came from an animal (like wool), if it would still be vegan

Someone replied to OP "are vegans against wool?"

OP replied with uncertainty

I replied to OP with a non judgemental informational with examples, and directed them to something I wrote up to help them better understand what Veganism actually is, so that they can answer any other questions they have

Person who asked if vegans use wool told me to "Kindly shut the fuck up. Im a human. I know how the world works"

Ok.

[mxwhore]

the vegans found my stupid post again

[dreamersneverlose]

Okay no you know what? I’ve held my tongue on this for long enough (everyone in my life knows my opinion on this topic) - I have a very deep beef with chain restaurants changing their soft pretzels as if that isn’t a direct personal attack against me, specifically. First it was Applebees beer cheese and pub pretzels like 5 years ago. They used to look like this:

Long, skinny, look like they’d be dry as fuck but they were soft on the inside with a delightfully crisp exterior and the beer cheese was DIVINE. This is what they replaced it with:

This switch happened around the same time Applebees added breadsticks w/ Alfredo dipping sauce to their list of appetizers. When I tell you that these things are just straight up the breadsticks with a spray tan. I’m not sure if the breadstick flavor made the beer cheese taste like Alfredo, if they mistakenly gave me Alfredo sauce, or if they straight up replaced the beer cheese with Alfredo sauce. I can tell you that I tried it at two different locations (hoping the second would have the old ones) and then swore off Applebees forever.

But you wanna know a recent, even more heinous soft pretzel betrayal? Monk’s Bar & Grill. I don’t think I’ll even have to explain this one. Here’s the old pretzel option:

And here’s what they replaced it with:

They don’t even salt these bland, dry, cheap bites. Monks, how could you?

I hope Culver’s doesn’t get any wise ideas from these chumps.

[tomatoluvr69]

Baking a little choco coffee banana cake for the park hang tomorrow i feel like what ot must feel like to be on ssris. Yay mode activated. AND brunch beforehand and a movie night tonight or tomorrow wtf……..wow

[readymades2002]

did say to my coworker at work something about how if i got injured at work in a way that left a gnarly and epic scar it would look so cool and she said in a very "well duh" kind of way "oh you WOULD say it would be cool" which is the funniest thing anyone's ever said about me

[genekies]

screaming in the club

time for another vent in tags

[gender-euphowrya]

"eat this don't eat that more meat less meat plant-based omnivore carnivore vegan insects protein shakes keto paleo intermittent fasting eat this don't eat that eat that don't eat this" HOW ABOUT I EAT THINGS I LIKE AND WANT TO EAT IN A WAY THAT ENSURES MY SURVIVAL AND DON'T TREAT FOOD LIKE SOMETHING TO OPTIMIZE THE BENEFITS OF OR PUNISHMENT OR A CHORE OR A REFLECTION OF MY MORALITY

[medicinemane]

My stomach sounds like some manner of beast right now, just kind of "mhhhrmmhhbbhh"ing, like some sort of creature snuffling and grumbling

[knife-em0ji]

Do you ever take a chance on a pre packaged sandwich from a national chain and get absolutely fucked up by how good it is. Anyway I could eat the falafel-tomato salsa broodje from panos every day for the rest of my godforsaken life

[vegancas]

the thing is i would become a fruitarian if i didn't think it sounded like so much work

[woo-lesbeano]

I tried to make Swift Heart Rabbit’s Carrot and Ginger Salad recipe from this (https://youtu.be/0wH-8Hh9r2Q). Swapped out raisins for the halved grapes though because raisins = bad texture. It’s not pretty but it actually is tasty!

[swagging-back-to]

ive noticed from previous breaks that i usually stop having cravings completely around 4 days. today might be my first day completely cold turkey

[snekdood]

The way ppl talk about vegans on here is like theyre all some unified group that goes to the same meetings and follows the same youtubers and questions nothing and its really really fuckin weird. Especially since if you spent any time on vegan twitter youd know that vegans like to disagree on shit all the time. Like so many vegans hated eachother on there jdksnsks where is this idea coming from about vegans even