seems to be on the right side of the prevailing food paradigm, which holds that eating meat, fish, dairy and eggs is a redneck habit that has had its day
Where does the author live that they think the “prevailing food paradigm” is vegan?
Where does the author live that they think the “prevailing food paradigm” is vegan?
The entire identity politics direction we are going on is incredibly scary and this highlights the extent to which is happening. What makes it even scarier is how hard it is not to fall for identity politics myself. I would argue that identity politics also was what drove Naziisim, larger parts of Leniism and the awful culture revolution. This one might be the sneakiest incarnation yet. I hope the train will stop a long time before we get to Hitler station.
Edit: Maybe this is even a natural end state of the two party system?
The articles themselves can often come across as quite elitist and judgmental, and the authors can seem incredibly out of touch. Referring to non-Vegan people as rednecks is one such example, as is the term 'prevailing food paradigm', but you'll see this happens in practically every opinion piece published by a British newspaper.
The author most likely has their head stuck up their own ass so all this nonsense about rednecks and prevailing paradigms is just fluff to big up their ego.
Obviously not the U.S.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-02/have-a-me...
I'm really not sure what's supposed to be so bad about quorn.
Yeah, it's a fungus. So what? We eat lots of different kinds of fungi. Mushrooms, obviously. Yeast. The mold on various types of cheese. Asian comestibles like sake, soy sauce, tempeh...miso. The list goes on.
I agree that it shouldn't be marketed as a "plant food" -- fungi are not plants. They're their own kingdom entirely.
It isn't, though. It's only this article's author that harps on and on about plants.
> fungi are not plants.
Exactly. The same author who harps on about plants in the context of Quorn also accuses the public of being scientifically illiterate.
It's easy to think so. Try this very comment thread. Try talking about meat eating at your next big-city cocktail party. Yes, vegetarian/vegan evangelists are probably just a lot louder than everybody else, but that doesn't mean it isn't working for them.
OK, I'll bite. Links to concrete comments in this thread presenting veganism as the "prevailing food paradigm", please.
Agreed, social bubbles are a thing. That's why I think it's credible that the Guardian author comes across a lot of vocal vegan evangelism and might honestly come to think of it as the "prevalent food paradigm" in some ("non-redneck") circles.