Re:Association between meatless diet and depressive episodes
by 9dev on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:03PM
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You’d be surprised to learn that several cultures across the world do eat no or almost no meat. Meat consumption increases with wealth, so reality is contrary to what you’re hinting at: eating meat is a privilege of the well-off.
Re:Association between meatless diet and depressive episodes
by danaris on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:55PM
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Y'know, oddly enough, both of these things can be true at the same time, for different regions and types of poverty.
The point is, universal vegetarianism is not practical, either voluntary or enforced.
Re:Association between meatless diet and depressive episodes
by 9dev on Monday September 26, 2022 @02:29AM
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I don’t see how that relates to my point. Universal vegetarism is practiced already, without issues, since hundreds of years, by a rather large populace.
Why wouldn’t it be practical?
Survive, yes.
Thrive? No, not really.
And it's absolutely not the case that everyone can even survive on a pure vegetarian/vegan diet. Some people have medical conditions that make it impossible. Many, many, many people do not have the money to buy the unquestionably much more expensive food required to maintain a nutritious vegetarian or vegan diet.
The ability to do so is a privilege of the abled and well-off.