So many of my German friends are now either vegan or vegetarian. Granted, a few of them were never big on meat, even when they were younger, but still – there is a definite change happening in the younger generation
3.2% of the ENTIRE population… I don’t see the Currywurst disappearing
Edit for more data, less than 1% of the worlds population is vegan.
Ofcourse, just like the embraced Fanta in the WWII.
It’s amazing what the lack of oil/gas can make you do…
No house, no car, no meat. Good. Adaptation to the living standards of the third world is gonna be useful when the German economy tanks this winter.
If algea tastes like meat i will eat it. There is some good progress in the direction but if you chew a little longer the vegan stuff still tastes like lawn in a video game.
this vegan(-ism) trend is another artificially manufactured lifestyle which is being sold to young hipsters who happily pay double for a usually much inferior (nutrition wise) product.
yes, yes, I understand all the moral concerns, about animals being slaughtered wrongly, kept in bad conditions (too crowded), these concerns are all genuine; yet, one can’t forget what an immense damage has our agriculture done to our nature, plenty of forests cut down just to make grain fields and many animal species have gone extinct because of that.
as with many things, the truth is somewhere in the middle – eating too much red meat is not good, just like eating only plant foods ain’t; but eating some meat, with veggies is probably better than each of them separately.
IMO, vegan culture is at its peak and from here on it’s going only down, just like other trends that come and go.
edit: I welcome angry vegans with their downvotes! (:
Ill be honest, I’m not vegan, but the culture wars might push me there. Militant anti vegans who can’t let people make their nutritional choices because some mythical arrogant vegan was condescending to them 20 years ago are the most obnoxious people out there and the spite is real.
“sudden embrace” what? Did we have a lot of meat substitutes like the beyond burger and so on? No. but we’ve had vegetarian and vegan choices for years, if not decades. We have a bigger selection to chose from than , allegedly, US americans.
I moved to Germany 6 months ago and I was pleasantly surprised how easy it is to live vegan here. Granted not as good as in my home country but things are definitely moving in the right direction
Eat meat like our ape brothers. A grub and a bug a day, the rest veggies.
I would say, as the charts actually suggest, Germans do not embrace vegan, they just eat more diverse and eat meat more selectively and thus less meat per capita per year.
Anecdotal, but me and my family still eat meat, but certainly eat more vegetarian and vegan options than a decade ago and instead eat good meat on rarer occasions. Part of it health, part of it is the realization of maybe not eating crap cheap meat, part of it is if it tastes good it does not matter if it has meat in it or not.
I sense another anti-nuclear power debacle.
Don’t fight nature, move with it. Eat a bit of everything and drink a lot of beer, like Mother Nature intended.
the sausages look like they are filled with the stuff that I have to remove from the bottom of my lawnmower + curry.
I’ll never understand why vegans need to emulate or recreate meat things/dishes like the “vegan burger” with fake blood on it.
I’m always like wtf? Aren’t you fighting this kind of culture?
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So many of my German friends are now either vegan or vegetarian. Granted, a few of them were never big on meat, even when they were younger, but still – there is a definite change happening in the younger generation
3.2% of the ENTIRE population… I don’t see the Currywurst disappearing
Edit for more data, less than 1% of the worlds population is vegan.
https://thevou.com/lifestyle/2019-the-world-of-vegan-but-how-many-vegans-are-in-the-world/#:~:text=Number%20of%20Vegans%20In%20The%20World%202021&text=Based%20on%20the%20most%20recent,world%20is%20approx%2079%20million.
Ofcourse, just like the embraced Fanta in the WWII.
It’s amazing what the lack of oil/gas can make you do…
No house, no car, no meat. Good. Adaptation to the living standards of the third world is gonna be useful when the German economy tanks this winter.
If algea tastes like meat i will eat it. There is some good progress in the direction but if you chew a little longer the vegan stuff still tastes like lawn in a video game.
this vegan(-ism) trend is another artificially manufactured lifestyle which is being sold to young hipsters who happily pay double for a usually much inferior (nutrition wise) product.
yes, yes, I understand all the moral concerns, about animals being slaughtered wrongly, kept in bad conditions (too crowded), these concerns are all genuine; yet, one can’t forget what an immense damage has our agriculture done to our nature, plenty of forests cut down just to make grain fields and many animal species have gone extinct because of that.
as with many things, the truth is somewhere in the middle – eating too much red meat is not good, just like eating only plant foods ain’t; but eating some meat, with veggies is probably better than each of them separately.
IMO, vegan culture is at its peak and from here on it’s going only down, just like other trends that come and go.
edit: I welcome angry vegans with their downvotes! (:
Ill be honest, I’m not vegan, but the culture wars might push me there. Militant anti vegans who can’t let people make their nutritional choices because some mythical arrogant vegan was condescending to them 20 years ago are the most obnoxious people out there and the spite is real.
“sudden embrace” what? Did we have a lot of meat substitutes like the beyond burger and so on? No. but we’ve had vegetarian and vegan choices for years, if not decades. We have a bigger selection to chose from than , allegedly, US americans.
I moved to Germany 6 months ago and I was pleasantly surprised how easy it is to live vegan here. Granted not as good as in my home country but things are definitely moving in the right direction
Eat meat like our ape brothers. A grub and a bug a day, the rest veggies.
I would say, as the charts actually suggest, Germans do not embrace vegan, they just eat more diverse and eat meat more selectively and thus less meat per capita per year.
Anecdotal, but me and my family still eat meat, but certainly eat more vegetarian and vegan options than a decade ago and instead eat good meat on rarer occasions. Part of it health, part of it is the realization of maybe not eating crap cheap meat, part of it is if it tastes good it does not matter if it has meat in it or not.
I sense another anti-nuclear power debacle.
Don’t fight nature, move with it. Eat a bit of everything and drink a lot of beer, like Mother Nature intended.
the sausages look like they are filled with the stuff that I have to remove from the bottom of my lawnmower + curry.
I’ll never understand why vegans need to emulate or recreate meat things/dishes like the “vegan burger” with fake blood on it.
I’m always like wtf? Aren’t you fighting this kind of culture?