Who cares that people are experiencing food insecurity due to egg prices because being vegan just makes us better than them am I right?
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Uh oh, you've stirred up the armchair nutritionists again! Here to tell us how nutritionally deficient a plant-based diet is!
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You don't have to be vegan to make a tofu scramble.
It’s kinda our business too because people are still forcing birds into confined spaces and making them sick, and being vegan is a stance against that.
I'd even argue that higher prices on eggs would make people cram more birds into the same spaces just to produce more eggs and make more money
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Isn't easier to just... stop buying eggs?
Won't the prices come down if people, you know, stop pushing demand for them?
Seriously not a bad time to consider vegetarianism or veganism.
Seriously not a bad time to consider vegetarianism or veganism
But eggs are vegetarian. Avoiding meat is easy, but eggs are in a ton of recipes and not all of them work with egg substitutes
Which ones? I've yet to encounter a recipe with eggs where I couldn't satisfyingly sub in tofu, mung bean liquid (Such as Just Egg) or starch+tapioca replacer (Such as this) depending on the egg preparation.
Tofu is good for scrambles.
Mung bean is good for frying.
Stratch+tapioca is for baking.
You say that like we don't import a fuck ton of our produce from Mexico.
Everything is about to get way more expensive.
This is why backyard and community gardens are about to get a whole lot more important. A few of us have been trying to convince my job to set one up and I'm hoping tariffs are the push we need to get it done.
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Agree.
There is a great push towards this stuff. Mostly trough the meat industry whos products getting shittier by the day.
A good meal is texture + flavor. As long as you give me the texture and flavor I want I couldn't care less how it is accomplished.
And if I have the choice between 2 products who are equal in texture and flavor, I pick the option that caused less suffering in the world.
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Ok so, i understand that it's way more than it used to be but... Is $10 for a dosen really THAT bad? Are People using eggs literally every meal or something? I LITERALLY heard someone complaining about this while grabbing some at costco. Like genuinely upset and acting like they can never have eggs again while they have a cart easily pushing $400 of stuff not all of which is food.
I feel like everyone is strangely focused on eggs when there are way worse things going through the roof
Eggs WERE one of the cheapest sources of protein available, so a lot of people depended on them since meat was so expensive. Now even that is taken from us.
eggs are also just generally really good nutrition, they are specifically meant to fuel the growth of the chick after all
and combined with them being vegetarian, eggs are one of the best foods available.
Yeah, they were the best value for money for a long time. Within my recent memory (last ten years or so), if I'm recalling correctly, they were a dollar or less per dozen in my region of the US. You couldn't beat them for nutritional ROI.
The thing about their price increases though is that up until relatively recently, I've read somewhere that bird flu was an excuse rather than an actual factor. I could be wrong on that, but I distinctly remember hearing it being tied to greed rather than an actual supply issue.
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I quit eating eggs in late 2018. At the time, a dozen eggs were well south of $2. I don't think prices increased much until COVID hit. So that's ~$2 to ~$10 in five years. Given that eggs and milk are staple foods, I can see why people would be highly concerned.
Yes and yes. I buy them from a farm, they're cheap and delicious. I have eggs for breakfast and I have eggs as a snack in the evening
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Hmmm… this might be exactly my take when vegans start to pay more because trump decided to flood the farms that produce a big part of their diet. Or when they realize that Mexico and Canada produce a lot of it as well.
Maybe it’s best not to be a smug asshole about things because things have a way of coming back around….
[...] the farms that produce a big part of their diet.
Those farms produce the majority of your calories as well, btw.
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Seems like you're inferring a lot from a meme...
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Wait until vegans find out how much of their food comes from Mexico
Cries in avocado.
i dont really get why people have so much resistance when switching foods. seasons and shortages have existed since people started agriculture and when something becomes scarce, you pivot and eat what youve got. if there was some bizarre soy disease and tofu becomes expensive, im just gonna buy lentils 🤷
I was like this in the past, it's just that you've spent your entire life eating the same things and only know how to cook those things (if you can cook at all), so changing feels very intimidating and involves several steps. It's not just buying different things, it's learning how to cook them properly and which ones you like, and getting over the bump of initial slight dislike of most new things which is pretty instinctive.
What we need is to help people learn to cook things and help them ease into trying new foods, ideally this would be family members and friends but specific community groups is good too.
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