#pescetarian

Here's what i've been eating since increasing my protein goal to 100g a day, on a 500-700 kcal deficit, bc i've noticed some of u kids eating like shit lately >:(

They think that, if they're vegetarian or vegan, then it's a strict hard pass / rejection to eating anything that's meat or egg / dairy (depending).

I'm Pescetarian.

I will eat chicken and pork sometimes. Rarely beef.

I'm still Pescetarian.

But there's these weird people out there that go "ButButBut! You ate chicken the other day???"

Yes. I did. The real world (anything outside of your weird white-colonial consumerism bubble) doesn't actually treat dietary preferences / baseline as a strict religious dogma. Perfectionism is not a thing in the majority of the rest of the world. They also don't make it their whole identity.

It's about relationship with food, resource, accessibility, and waste mindfulness.

it's traditional in my culture to eat lamb! and you know what? that does not provide any justification for eating it! native people are not some mystical race with magic ancient wisdom they have to sustain by eating meat! the ethical consumption guidelines are the same for everyone on earth! being indigenous does not enable them to eat an animal without it being killed against its will! indigenous people are not magic fucking forest elves!

"but pleather is–" Pleather is not targetted for a vegan audience it was not made for a vegan consumer base. do you think Oreos were made to corner the vegan market? use your brain here

weeee heres my old go to one pot meal from when i ate dead aminals, for the plant based ppl just replace the fish with your preferred tofu texture (extra firm silken is the closest to a flaky salmon imo!) and the mayo with vegannaise

add all this to a rice cooker, in this order:

1 cup rice (rinsed)

1 cup water

1 or 2 baby bokchoy, sliced

a pinch of salt and MSG

a salmon steak on top (score with a knife first to absorb more flavor)

then you're gonna mix 2 Tbsp soy sauce, 1 Tbsp sesame oil, and 1 Tbsp teriyaki sauce together and pour that over the salmon, then just set it to cook and your veggies and fish will steam while the rice cooks !

i personally don't like doing it. therefore i don't eat meat

excluding dietary and cultural needs, we should all eat less meat if we can. because the meat industry bad for the environment, which is not good

people have the wrong impression of plant based foods and hate unnecessarily on vegans especially and we should all be trying more plant based food/recipes because they are very delicious

plant based food is also often highly processed. which is also bad for the environment, which is not good

there are myriad factors that contribute to a vegetarian/vegan diet being less accessible, including disability factors

it's much better to eat less meat, or start off eating less meat, than try to go cold turkey straight away. that's not what i did but if you feel that's easier, do it. anything is better than nothing

if you have the choice between eating meat or eating nothing, i am begging you to eat the meat. it is much better to eat meat than to starve

content made by non meat eaters to try to guilt trip people into eating less meat does more harm to those with dietary/cultural needs and dietary restrictions than good to people who will genuinely listen to the message of the content (lbfr though when has making people immensely uncomfortable ever changed their mind?)

if you are hosting someone vegetarian/pescetarian/vegan for a meal, don't fucking make a meat based dish with almost nothing else on the side. you as the host have a duty to accommodate their dietary needs just as much as you have a duty to make plenty of foods someone with severe allergies can eat

no one should be made to feel guilty for requiring people to cook an extra dish if they don't want the meat option (ahem, my mother). it's a requirement in most school canteens afaik to provide a vegetarian option

no one should feel pressured into stopping eating meat or changing their diet. that's a choice that should be made by the person choosing to stop eating meat, and it should be a thing they feel good about doing

all restaurants and food outlets should provide a vegetarian alternative that's exactly the same as all their meat dishes, just with the option of quorn or another plant based alternative instead of meat

if people came around to my house for a meal i'd cook them something vegetarian unless they specifically asked otherwise but that's because i'm not comfortable at all cooking meat :')

i can tell people the facts about eating meat, specifically animal cruelty and environmental harms, but i cannot and will not try to force anyone to eat any less meat