Ha ha no way man
My partner is not a vegan and is barely even a vegetarian

Kid from Vegan families aren't weirdos, thanking you kindly.

A serious question, what do vegans generally do to meet their protein requirements? I'm presuming it's with supplements but the most common ones use whey powder which being from cows milk I assume would be not be acceptable to a vegan.

Correct.

Because they're dead.

There are a lot of vegan protein powders made from soy, rice, peas etc.

To answer your question, Vegans get their fix of protein through legumes, tofu, peanut butter and even artichokes.

Yep I figured it'd be supplements and using something like that, there's decent levels of protein in some of those plants but to eat the sort of quantities you do in meats is highly impractical.

Most Vegans add protein powder to a soy smoothie. One of those will have your protein sorted in no time.

It borders the blurry region between highly impractical and physically impossible.

It's certainly not healthy. Try as they may, it's simply not a debate that they can win.

Animal cruelty/moral arguments for veganism are the most debatable, but even then they are shaky.

I suggest ban all vegans.

Eradicate them from humanity.

Maybe Hitler had the right idea, just the wrong demographic. Was Veganism even a thing back in the 30s and 40s?

:-k

Nope.

Meat may be murder. But it's fucking delicious!

So you think it's perfectly acceptable to not only murder animals for your gluttony, but to commit Genocide against a group of humanity that has separate eating beliefs from you.

You're a real humanitarian, aren't you?

I agree on the health side of things but we should probably eat less meat than we do as a society. I'm guilty of indulging though, meat's delicious.

The morality is more debatable but people are within their rights to do it if it's their choice. Imposing it on kids gets murky though.

Absolutely. There's really no debate on whether adults should be able to choose veganism for themselves or not.

I'm a big believer on pushing veganism on kids being treated in the same way as any other kind of child abuse such as faith healing and excessive discipline, though.

Umm... you do realise Hitler was a vegetarian yeah???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism

After watching cowspiracy I'll happily admit I've flirted with the idea and have cut back meat & dairy a fair bit (tbf I was barely consuming milk as is).

Been taking just a random multivitamin (inc B12) to help adjust

But yeah, lamb is my weakness. The main things stopping me from being a vegan for the good of the enviornment is my laziness, lamb & eggs (and if it counts? Honey)

Didn't think you can murder animals

Being a vegan isn't good for the environment.

Plants and seeds have feelings too, guys.

Meat & dairy diets are environmentally unsustainable.

Modern methods of meat & diary diets are environmentally unsustainable. You may pay more to eat it, but there are meat and diary farming methods that are not only sustainable, they are environmentally beneficial.

All methods of agriculture required to sustain plant-only diets are very unsustainable, and the leading cause of desertification.

Bugs like crickets will be a staple in decades ...it's already happening in Asia
Meat & dairy diets are environmentally unsustainable.

Edited by Socawho: 7/7/2016 11:46:14 PM

Genuinely interested in links for both statements?

I don't have a link, this is what I got out of one my subjects. You need a balance between the two.

And lets not forget if the whole world went vegan then Australia would be fucked. Livestock is a huge export and most of our land is unfit for growing crops.

Lab-grown meat will resolve this issue in the next 20 years.

You will be able to eat meat AND not kill any animals.

I second this motion. If I had kids, I'd give them the choice. If they chose to eat meat, that's fine with me.

Can we 3D-print meat yet ?

No, but you can try yummy meat subsitutes like tempeh, eggplant and soy to satisfy your meat craving

Damn vegans trying to guilt trip people into being vegans ;)