Do Vegetarians and Vegans Think They Are Better Than Everyone Else?

Songbird · Sep 9, 2013

The lede was +1.

Songbird · Dec 15, 2014

Don't like sweet potatoes but saw this on FB and thought the vegans who think they're better than everyone else might:

" ... These are boiled for 35 min, and then stuffed with a bit of almond butter, chopped green apples, pecans, dried cranberries, and a sprinkle of cinnamon."

dreunc1542 · Sep 15, 2013

That looks incredible.

JayFarrar · Dec 15, 2014

Songbird said:

Don't like sweet potatoes but saw this on FB and thought the vegans who think they're better than everyone else might:

" ... These are boiled for 35 min, and then stuffed with a bit of almond butter, chopped green apples, pecans, dried cranberries, and a sprinkle of cinnamon."

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Hells Bells, that's dinner tomorrow night.

Looks delicious.

deskslave · Dec 15, 2014

Songbird said:

Local farm girl brought me in a dozen duck eggs yesterday. Apparently it's the new superfood, whether it has the official designation or not. She described duck eggs over chicken eggs: They're a bit more gamey ... "there'e just *more* egg there, if that makes sense."

Friend fried a few up this morning. They are indeed fuller and eggier. But a great egg.

And not vegetarian.

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Duck eggs make awesome omelettes.

Songbird · Sep 16, 2013

Hemingway scoffs at your fufu vegetarianism.

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/09/16/hemingways-hamburger/

Buck · Sep 16, 2013

That burger recipe is clearly an attempt to compensate for a strong latent homosexual streak.

The Big Ragu · Sep 16, 2013

Buck said:

That burger recipe is clearly an attempt to compensate for a strong latent homosexual streak.
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Are middle-ground shrimp eaters bisexual?

Versatile · Sep 20, 2013

http://slate.me/1buLnw9

When I have vegetarians over for dinner, I’m already making a sacrifice by forgoing a real entrée in favor of a meatless one. Fairness and common sense would argue that, in return, vegetarians shouldn’t make a big deal about some small amount of a near-invisible (if crucial!) liquid. I’ve compromised my culinary integrity enough already—now it’s your turn: Vegetarians and vegans, chicken stock does not count as meat.
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YankeeFan · Dec 15, 2014

Go Vegan, part time:

It’s not worth trying to persuade anyone to become vegan, for a couple of very good reasons: one, it’s a losing battle, and two, it’s far from certain that a diet with no animal products is best for everyone. It’s increasingly evident, however, that a part-time vegan diet — one that emphasizes minimally processed plant food at the expense of everything else — is the direction that will do the most to benefit human health, increase animal welfare and reduce environmental impact. The remaining challenge, an undeniably big one, is to figure out how to make such a diet, which you might also call “flexitarian,” the standard.

My own diet, which I call Vegan Before 6 (and wrote a book about), is one way of tackling part-time veganism, but it isn’t the only way. An intelligent adaptation of the Mediterranean diet, one of the popular “fast today, feast tomorrow” diets or even a so-called paleo diet — one that stresses vegetables rather than animal products (our great ancestors, after all, were gatherer-hunters who saw meat not as routine but as an occasion to feast) — can put you on the right track.

As can this: a day of your choosing when you just go vegan.

There are, of course, true vegans who will say that part-time veganism is a little-bit-pregnant kind of thing; that is, impossible. But since the word means a diet without animal products, it can be used to describe something as part-time as a meal: a salad is, after all, a vegan meal. (I am aware, having had this argument dozens of times in the last few years, that many full-time vegans’ primary concern is animal welfare, and that’s a different discussion.)

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The Big Ragu · Sep 21, 2013

The first part of the thing in quotes is tripe.

"It's far from certain that a diet with no animal products is best for everyone."

OK, I'll buy that if you are speaking from a health standpoint. I can't say that in an absolute sense, and then prove it is true -- even if there is a lot of very compelling evidence that makes a good case for it.

But then writer says ... "a part-time vegan diet. ... is the direction that will do the MOST to benefit human health."

That is about as unprovable as an absolute statement, as the first thing the writer dismissed.

YankeeFan · Dec 15, 2014

Last night's dinner at the vegetarian restaurant Green Zebra

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