love this!If we eat all the omnis we will have a vegan world.
I know just the man for the job ...
Which leads to a half serious point ...
Omnis have absolutely zero mental disconnect twix extreme mental sickness and a lust for meat when the meat lusted after is them.
"Perhaps inspired by Jay Z and Beyoncé’s 22-day vegan diet or the recent outing of Al Gore as a “newly turned vegan,” news outlets on both sides of the Atlantic are already declaring 2014 “the year of the vegan.”
So what about 2015? The "The year of the ex-vegan"? Celebrities going vegan is nothing new....but how many stay vegan? Not many it seems.
I'm not sure to what degree that is true, hopefully not much, but the vast majority of celebrities aren't vegan and the ex-vegan celebrities stories always seem to get more attention in the general media than the celebrity going vegan stories. If celebrities going vegan did things right, remained healthy and remained committed long-term than perhaps that could be a positive thing for the vegan movement.....but that doesn't seem to be what happens. In any case, its the total numbers that matter and they haven't increased much which should be an indication that something is wrong with vegan activism, veganism or both.
The food industry is very far from this but given that there are already tasty vegan foods that can meet people's nutritional needs I'm not sure how "vegan replacement foods", that is mock foods, would result in a dramatic shift in the number of vegans. In terms of what works, you'd think people would look more to cultures that have maintained large vegetarian populations for centuries but that doesn't happen much.what if the food industry make vegan replacement foods for people that were just as good, taste wise, and nutritionally....can you see anything wrong with that happening?
Maybe....but that would just mean you need to change the culture. There are a lot of vegan advocates that seem to think that you're going to get the world to be stop eating meat, etc without any major cultural changes and instead just giving them fake meats, etc.
This doesn't tell you much, for example, do they respond differently because they are veg*n or are they veg*n because they respond differently? Given that there are vegetarian cultures, I would doubt that people are veg*n because they respond differing to animal suffering than others. As with so much, you really need to do cross-cultural studies to get to the bottom of things.
I do like Indian food....but most days I eat food that is more western in style/flavor. The west doesn't need to mimic Indian vegetarian food culture. At the same time, I think its foolish not to take pointers from the largest, oldest and most successful vegetarian culture on the planet. But, yeah, some people will never change but culture gets new members at each generation so one really has to take a long-term view here.
Yes and no, vegetarianism has roots in their religion but most Hindus, Buddhists, etc aren't vegetarian. In my previous comment, what I had in mind is their culinary culture and food system. Indian vegetarian food is just as sophisticated, culinary wise, as anything you'd find in the west and Indian vegetarians manage to remain vegetarian without "meat cravings", failing health, etc.
Foods derived from animal products are not necessarily expensive, in fact, most mock products are 2~3 times more than the real versions. But creating new products in general can disrupt established businesses but that isn't necessarily going to result in less animal based foods being consumed. Unilever, for example, doesn't produce eggs and doesn't care that Hampton Creek created a "mayo" without eggs, they could do the same, what they care about is maintaining their brands top position.
Apparently Unilever do make a mayo that doesn't contain any egg, much to their embarrassment, which might have pushed them towards dropping the case.
