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Plant-Based Mince Now 29% Cheaper Than Beef at Tesco as Meat Prices Climb (vegconomist.com)
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[–] 12 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Same. I feel like vegans are being taken advantage of. Soy and oat and other grain based replacements for animal products should be dirt cheap. They're marketing to hipsters and pricing accordingly. So all that shit about the economy and whatnot? Marketing trash. Make that shit cost what it should and way more people would buy it. Especially with everything going up.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Not sure about soy beans, but you can buy a lot of beans very cheaply. Oats are also very cheap.

    Processed foods are always going to cost more, and probably suck. Make your own, meat or vegan it's going to be better for you, tastier, or both.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    You don't have to buy such products when you are vegan but personally I'd rather be taken advantage of than have non-human animals be taken advantage of and in a much more severe way. People really get thrown off at the slightest inconvenience when it affects them...

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Fair, and expected, but why not both? Why can't vegan food be profitable and also cheaper than animal-based products? Because of greed taking advantage of people with hearts bigger than their wallets but who will open it regardless and just pay more. The one who is more frugal and doesn't have as strict of dietary restrictions sees the bullshit on both sides but buys what's affordable.

    I will say this for you vegans... one of you got me curious about oat milk, so I started asking for it at my favourite coffee shop, and I think it makes their coffee better. They push it with new customers, but they serve whole (cow) milk as well. Once I opted for cow milk a couple times, they stopped asking. So I had to mention that I was curious about oat milk. Hoping to push the trend back, where they stop asking me and just do oat milk. I'll buy oat-based creamer if it's cheaper/on sale. I want to give it a try at home now. Not because it's more ethical, but because I found it makes my coffee better.

    I like eating meat. I'm not gonna mince words here. But if I found a plant-based alternative I liked and it was cheaper (or comparable), I would get it more, but I have to be careful... because I still need animal protein due to the surgery I got a couple years ago.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Where I live there are little processed vegan options, they are hard to come by/identify, and there are no vegan sections but I'm glad that they are here at all tbh given the state of things. As for prices just like with everything you judge things on a per product basis. If there's something that costs more than I'm willing to pay I just skip it as I'm not forced to buy certain types of products which are generally not healthy anyway. Not that I disagree about pricing being shitty but you just work with what you have since cruelty is so deeply ingrained in our society it inherently requires effort to minimise it. Just like with privacy for example where you actively need to fight for it. It's just something you do. Once my current phone is on death bed I will be buying fairphone which is expensive or a similar product out of the same principle.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I feel like vegans are being taken advantage of

    Eh, maybe at the beginning when you haven't adjusted and are looking for one to one replacements for meat. After a while though you just get used to beans and lentils, which are dirt cheap, and tofu and eat more of those then the fake meat products.

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