True. But 'Militant Vegetarian' isn't exactly a term known by most people. Moreover, this is a meme on a meme community. No one is taking the title seriously. I'd say forgive me for using it but frankly I don't care.

Ok, that makes sense and generally tracks with my own experiences. Particularly: > Ironically being vegan is pretty big in punk spaces now too. The handful of folks I knew who were actual punks, in actual punk bands, played at local bars, were among the most genuinely kind people I'd ever met, and were the most dedicated, and also non-sanctimonious vegans I knew. Unfortunately, I was more often around corpo yuppie types... bleck. If you could link me to some kind of seitan or blackbean uh... patty making guide? I have no idea how that works, but I'd love to learn, love to switch over to something less meat intensive as I slowly recover and can handle more involved cooking procedures.

Sure thing! Here's a few recipes. Pretty standard black bean burger recipe. It uses a "flax egg" which is flaxseed meal and water and is used a lot in vegan baking. You can omit the sauce and just use whatever you like on a burger. You can also make it cheaper by using dried beans instead of canned. https://www.ambitiouskitchen.com/ultimate-black-bean-burgers-with-tahini-garlic-cream/ Seitan if you have vital wheat gluten (makes it easier): https://theveganatlas.com/homemade-seitan-recipe/#mv-creation-193-jtr Seitan if you don't have or want to buy vital wheat gluten and just have flour: https://thevietvegan.com/washed-flour-seitan-method/#recipe For other dishes and creators I use recipes from a ton: https://rainbowplantlife.com/ https://thecheaplazyvegan.com/blog/ Learning to cook vegan is a bit of a different mindset from meat, and teaches you to use seasonings way more. My general advice for trying to put together vegan meals is always have a protein (tofu, seitan, edamame, any bean/lentil, quinoa, or oats), some veg, and a seasoning mix or a sauce. That and balance out the oil, acid (vinegar, citrus juice, etc), and spiciness is most of how I do my cooking when I just want to throw together some food and don't have a recipe in mind or want to tweak a recipe to fit my tastes.

Thank you! Starring this and saving the links to my bookmarks! I am no stranger to seasoning, but uh, mostly with eggs and potatoes and meat and such. My only real experience with vegan cooking... beyond learning how to make a few interesting salads... is utterly, totally failing at attempting to make tofu into something edible. Failed quite badly at that lol. But I will definitely see if I can orient more of my next grocery run (delivery, really, yay disabled) around any of this, see if my arm and wrist can handle the prep. Thanks!

But isn't minmaxing the fun out of your game to chase the 1% damage increase exactly what RPGs are about?

Memes and memenisems are not the same.

Then he should have tried a pesca pescatarian diet.

This is why I only cannibalize noble laureates in physics.

I knew a super clever guy (PhD in Physics) who wouldn't eat strawberries or tomatoes because he worried about their seeds growing inside him.

> on every step you lose about 90% this varies greatly. beef cattle is closer to 99% when you look at Calories. [source](://awellfedworld.org/feed-ratios/) ("More Comprehensive FCRs" section)

My father is like that with pork, especially as he was kicked into a pile of pig shit by them during a pig slaughter.

Thanks for the info, i just repeated the number i learnt back in the introductory courses at university for trophic levels.

> do as little ecological harm as possible mindset I'm not a vegan, but it's probably worth remembering that different people might be vegan for different reasons. I can think of three main ones: animal welfare, environmental impact, and health. There's an overlap between the first two, but it's possible to be any one of those without being others. (Though I know a lot of particularly those who do it for animal welfare reasons like to claim that theirs is the One True Veganism and others are false.) Someone who's only into it for animal welfare but doesn't have a larger care for environmental impact would have no particular reason to *not* drive a car. There's also the simple fact that it's impossible for most people to care about everything. It's draining. Like I said, I'm not vegan. I'm *very* bad in the kitchen, and it would just be far, *far* too much of an imposition for me to change that. But I do try in other areas to advocate for things to reduce harm to the environment, and I try to reduce my own energy usage, for example by cycling or catching public transport. Transport and urbanism are the angle towards a better environment that I've chosen to focus my energy towards, and as long as someone is not actively going out of their way to *cause additional harm* (e.g. advocating *against* policy improvements in those areas) I think it's reasonable to allow other people to focus their energy elsewhere.

Well he definitely didn't have a PhD in Biology, that's for sure.

Vegetarianism is a plant(and fungus)-based diet. This may be motivated by veganism/ethics, climate/environmental concerns, religion, and/or health. Lacto-ovo-vegetarianism is when you call yourself vegetarian but eat mostly cheese. This may be motivated by wanting to feel like a good person or imagine that you are eating a healthy, environmentally-friendly diet.