On 03/06/2021 09:25, bert wrote:
Spike writes
On 31/05/2021 22:14, T i m wrote:

The actual fact is that our daughter just gave us the opportunity to
see the truth better for ourselves and *WE* decided to carry on with
it from then on. And it was far from a hard sell, it was that she
announced that she was going to *try* going vegan (from a vegi for a
few years, thinking that was enough before realising the egg and dairy
industry were as bad or worse) for one month (veganuary) and we
*offered* to join her.

You should have done what I did, which was to give up eating beef and
lamb some four decades ago. Just think of all the animals that were
killed for you while you were having fun and enjoying the sort of life
that you now don't want others to have - known, appropriately, as the
'dog in a manger' attitude. You'll need to live to over a 100 to catch
up with me, and given your stress levels caused by your trolling I think
that might be a bridge too far.

5 decades as a veggie for me. There was always a dilemma. Whilst we
would have liked more choice and more outlets we knew that eventually if
it became to popular the zealots would pile in and then the big food
manufacturers would follow with all the crap you now see on the
supermarket shelves labelled "vegan " etc.

Yes, it would appear that T i m hasn't worked that out, and mistakes the
numbers of vegan-labelled foods and vegan food aisles for growing
popularity rather than as a business opportunity to sell cheap,
processed vegetables at a high mark-up. Sadly, that screws it up for
those who were already in to vegetarianism and those proper vegans
rather than the veganists as represented by T i m.

It didn't happen to the same extent for gluten-free foods, as people
don't convert to being coeliac.


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Spike