I'm a little confused by what you mean. A healthy vegan diet is incredibly simple and easily available. Even in a rural town like mine with a tiny grocery store. Beans, rice, Chickpeas, lentils, some fruit and veggies of your choosing.

Its not so indiscriminate. Its just that theyre edgy libertarians and radical centrists. Its less about blanket making fun of everyone including themselves and that theyre smugly declaring "both sides bad" on most things.

Yeah. I absolutely love LotR. But read the niebelungen and certain poems from the Poetic Edda, not to mention Beowulf, and you see how heavy he was influenced by the stuff. Which is fine of course, everyone is influenced by things before them