• agoseris@lemm.ee
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    There are plenty of plant sources of Omega 3. Flax seeds, walnuts, soybeans, and canola oil all have decent amounts of omega 3 in them. As for protein, legumes generally have a bunch.

    Really, the only thing a vegan needs to supplement is B12, but even that gets added to a bunch of stuff like breakfast cereals and plant milks if you consume those.

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      Flax seeds, walnuts, soybeans, and canola oil all have decent amounts of omega 3 in them

      They also take an enormous amount of resources to cultivate and process at industrial scale.

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        Wait until you learn what cattle gets fed. Spoiler: it is soy

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          Wait until you learn that industrial 'murica isn’t the entirety of the planet.

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            I am not american and I dont want to be one. The feed for animals raised for their meat in the EU and a lot of other countries that have industrial animal farms is comprised out of several plants and nutrient supplements, and a big part of that feed is soy and corn, both things that are grown mostly to feed animals.

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        You can make your own plant milk usually by soaking/boiling nuts/seeds in water and then blending that together. Some people use juicers for this, and then some people run the blended liquid through a filter to remove any bits. Cashew milk is lovely if homemade!

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            You’ll have to ask the people who started calling them milks hundreds of years ago.

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            They have a lot more in common with dairy milk than they do juice. And they’re also commonly used as dairy milk alternatives. Plant milk is a much better descriptor even if juice might be more “accurate”.

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            I do it to piss off dairy farmers specifically. They hate it that I get to call it plant milk and that’s really funny to me.