• Denvil@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    Real food tastes good, my favorite Indian restaurant has some of the greatest food I’ve ever eaten, without a trace of meat

    No I’m not vegan, I like meat, but it’s not a necessity in everything

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      19 hours ago

      And we eat wayyyy too much of it. Partly because it’s so prevalent that it’s the default in most meals.

      You don’t have to go vegetarian to skip the meat at Taco Bell that you hardly notice anyway.

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        18 hours ago

        People always say they couldn’t give up a good steak, but we’re mostly not eating steak, we’re eating low quality processed meat and you could swap that with other protein and not notice.

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          15 hours ago

          Yeah, if people kept eating steak at the same rate, but reduced or stopped eating all the garbage meat, they and the world would be a healthier happier place. I’m not against eating meat, but I am against they typical western, especially American, focus on eating so much of it.

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      20 hours ago

      As a person who loves eating meat (fish and chicken mostly) I agree that I love some veg dishes

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        15 hours ago

        Fun fact! In English, the word meat does not include fish (at least usually). You can thank the Catholics for that one.

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            8 hours ago

            I think it should, but I don’t think it does. The first definition that shows up when I search the word: “The edible flesh of animals, especially that of mammals as opposed to that of fish or poultry.” It explicitly excludes fish, though I do think poultry is generally considered meat, so maybe this isn’t perfect. Every definition that is about flesh from a creature seems to exclude fish though.

            The distinction of fish not being meat is the reason why the pescetarian diet exists. It’s a diet next to vegetarian, but allows fish. The don’t eat “meat.”