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LeftyMom

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13. I'm not sure why you're in our group telling us that we're preachy.
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 01:08 AM
Sep 2014

We're not eating processed stuff all that often, fwiw. I clean out the farmer's market. I can like it's going out of style. When I want analogs I prefer to make my own because they're better. People invite themselves over to my house to eat often enough that it's a bit annoying, so apparently I'm pretty good at this cooking thing.

People already answered your question: it's about avoiding suffering. The thing your posts seem to gloss over is that animal foods come from animals. When you consider that it's fairly obvious why veg*ns would choose to avoid them and have no problems with plant based foods which resemble them superficially- the difference is the animal.

And it's Pollan. The line is "Mostly plants."

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