Honestly being vegan with modern farming and food production techniques is pretty easy, especially when compared to being vegan in the past - though if al-Ma'arri managed to live into his 80s while being a disabled, atheistic vegan in the middle east in the late 900s/early 1000s AD then it probably wasn't exactly impossible!

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely true. We have everything we could want/need to live a healthy vegan life. Most people are just afraid of trying something different or are purposefully ignorant of the implications of a non-vegan lifestyle.

[–] a_lemmy_user 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of the things that made it hardest for me was being teased and picked on by my family, while I wasn't asking anything from them. I just didn't want meat with dinner. It was nonstop anytime I showed my face, and if I spoke I was spoken over and ignored. It made me very antisocial, and I didn't adhere to my values. Then almost twenty years later I did and I've gained a bunch of weight because I'm comfortable while I eat.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel you. My SO and I have been vegan for around 3 years now and my family (mostly my older brother, tbh) keeps trying to get us to "cheat on veganism" for some super stupid reason. The worst has been when my brother said that he's "constantly" making compromises for us in terms of food, so it'd only be fair if we did once. 🙄

They're/he's probably just too insecure to give it a proper shot and to admit that what they're/he's doing might be morally wrong.

[–] a_lemmy_user 3 points 1 year ago

My in-laws are always doing that, too. They'll even spend money on things knowing fully we wont consume them, only to pout. We have a bunch of decoritive imported goods, lol.