I had totally forgotten about Veat. But you also reminded me about the Morningstar riblets. If those were around in the late eighties, early ninties, that would be my answer. It would have made me rethink the whole meat industry.

Of course the barbarisim and inefficiencies of meat/dairy production as a whole should be enough, but I wasn’t exactly the deepest thinker when I was younger.

That’s a good question but hard to nail down. In terms of nutrition, I was in decent shape as an omnivore in my late teens, early twenties, but nutrition was miles away from any thoughts I had on my diet. And even then, back in the late 90s/turn of the millinea, most substitutes and otherwise interesting plant-based foods didn’t exist, had limited availability or were pretty rough (cheeses, burgers etc…). Best we had was Morningstar corn dogs, boca and tofutti slices.

I think Soy Curls were hitting the market up in Portland around that time (2k-ish), and that would have been mega when I was younger. But I was in Sac/San Diego at that time and distribution wasnt as widespread, or at least I hadn’t seen them. Though, now that I think of it, you could get big tvp chunks in 16oz bags at Trader Joe’s in that timeframe, so I guess that’s my primary answer.

That said, I suppose I would have loved to discover Sunflower Cafe in Fair Oaks (Sacramento CA area) earlier on before going vegan. The super nut-burgers are amazing and that might have driven me to joining the dark side a lot sooner.

Brave Sir Donald ran away. Bravely ran away away!

The amount of destruction logging causes here in Oregon is sickening. Just came back from the coast and where hundreds of acres of beautiful trees stood is now a desolate scar.

I get that we have an addiction to wood products, but there has to be a better way. All you see are patches of land that look like Calvin’s head when Hobbes cuts his hair, and monoculture “reforestation” efforts that ignore the amount of nutrition and fungal/floral/animal diversity that have been removed/destroyed. It just sucks. It reminds me of Costa Rica. I just hope we can choose, like much of Costa Rica, to try and embrace conservation and make an industry around that instead.

He sure has been a big disappointment. I admired and even respected him and what he was driving, but once his PR team decided to not exist any longer, I guess, his behavior was instantly and incredibly immature and off-putting.

I want to appreciate everything he has had his booger-hooks in for what they are (apart from Twitter), but I just can’t imagine supporting them until he simply isn’t in the picture at all.

As horrific as this is, it was made worse by the title also being interpreted as him raping his daughters remains. Do editors even exist anymore?

So does every republican get their balls returned to them upon retirement? It’s like they sign an NDA to be associated with the party.

Gang Of Poltroons

Maybe he’s full of it. Maybe it’s Maybelline.

She just wants him to remember to put the eyeliner back where he found it or buy his own.

There is a time and a place for n-parties in this crappy political environment we are subject to, but this election is simply not it. Voting green or indie in this election dramatically increases the chances of there being only a single viable party for all future “elections” from here on out.

It’s easy to get jaded, but it’s best to push Republicans out of the picture and foster a more progressive green party in future elections.

Nothing sustainably good happens quickly in politics, but conversely, our actions in this election can have abrupt, and irreversible consequences.

I’m not telling to to sit this one out or whatever - you do you, but I do ask you to think of what party you are actively trying to cannibalize and then consider the fallout that may be blowing our way.

Oh, and for conversations sake, I don’t care about this shame game they are playing right now. This is trivial nit-picking and neither newsworthy nor thread-worthy. Both sides, sure, whatever. There are greater topics like democracy, human rights, voter rights, labor rights etc that are on the table and this "both sides’ nonsense doesn’t not hold up.

The same Trump that groped and motorboated Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag?

What a weird thing for him to say.

In my experience, anyone who speaks this frequently in hyperbole is 100% trying to feed you bullshit.

Roni Kaspi is a monster. I recommend watching her play with Jesus Molina as well.

I’m sorry. That answer wasn’t in the form of a question.