There's definitely a peace of mind benefit to being vegan right now. Eggs could cost an arm and a leg and it wouldn't dent my quality of life in the slightest. Add to that living far away from US makes it a moot point anyway ...for now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The weirdest part to me is eggs haven't gotten that crazy yet. Like the $1.50 packs of eggs are now $6 for a dozen, and I'd buy a dozen every 2-4 weeks so my costs are largely unchanged despite the 4x increase

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To me the problem is if we can’t fix something as simple as egg prices, how will we fix something as complicated as housing?

In the grand scheme of things eggs still aren’t that expensive but they’re an indicator that things are much more broken than most people realize

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In case you aren't aware, the egg prices are through the roof because bird flu (H5N1) has been spreading rampantly through chicken and cattle herds. If it mutates to where it can spread person to person (some cases have already jumped to humans, and some humans have already died of it) we'll easily have a second "once in a lifetime" pandemic on our hands

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Yes, this is incredibly well known.

[–] Someasy -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also knowing you aren't contributing to needless & brutal animal exploitation & cruelty, fuelling the next pandemic, antibiotic resistance, environmental destruction & climate change, resource depletion, psychologically traumatizing violent work of often vulnerable members of society, and consuming excess cholesterol & saturated fat that puts you at higher risk of cancers & heart disease & diabetes. Plus eating a chicken's periods, cow's breast milk for their baby, and the mutilated corpses of sentient beings is the grossest & most barbaric uncivilized thing I can possibly imagine.

[–] meliaesc 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He's already vegan, why are you still preaching...?