Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstream supermarket shelves

Post by captainredbeard » Fri, May 07, 2021, 9:30 PM UTC

ben_w wrote: post #486

captainredbeard wrote: post #485

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Those are examples of dysfunctional adults acting out. Thank you for making my case for me!

If you choose to describe majority of the electorate in multiple elections in a row as “not meeting the definition of ‘being a functional adult’”, then whatever definition you used for those words are not useful ones — and that’s just Prohibition. Disagreeing with the requirements of sections 64, 65, and 70? Outside of philosophical discussions, most normal people find them sufficiently repulsive that even suggesting…

Fair point - thank you for the reasoned reply, esp. regarding the specifics for sections 64, 65, 70...

Post by dehrmann » Sun, May 09, 2021, 5:43 PM UTC

the-alchemist wrote: post #238

subculture wrote: post #136

There's certainly a trope of "...but I can't give up cheese" and as someone who went from vegetarian to vegan: Yeah, cheese is hard to replicate. But also: your body and tastes adapt. After a few weeks off of dairy our memories of those old textures and mouth feel start to fade and are replaced. Humans don't like changes in patterns, but at the same time are relatively quick to adapt to new ones. There's real addicti…

Yeah, I've found moving to new foods to be relatively painless if done incrementally. Took just two weeks to convert my toddler son from cow's milk to soy milk (Silk brand, for the curious). First day, it was 90% / 10% dairy/cow. Second day, it was (eyeballing) 85% / 15% dairy/cow. You get the idea... Didn't even notice the transition.

Side-stepping how humans don't need milk after nursing, do you have any concerns with phytoestrogens? The closest thing to a consensus I've found with soy is small to medium amounts are probably fine, but there have been cases of funny things happening with large amounts.

Re: Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstream supermarket shelves

Re: Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstream supermarket shelves