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After interacting with some more vegans, I wonder what is an actually good way to encourage plantbased diet? (lemmy.selfhostcat.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Obviously some of the more terminally online attempts to guilt trip people do not work. I wonder is there even a point to encourage others? Most people won’t change their mind without making their own decision. I think I try to live by example, and being there when people have questions. Being there when people want to slowly eat less meat I think is very helpful. Some online vegans especially on lemmy act like it’s all or nothing, well then these people will never even try eating less animal products.

Thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I am not an active activist but I love cooking and when I'm with friends or family, I often volunteer te prepare the food. And doing so I got tons of positive feedback, people asking for recipes, what it's made of, where to get the ingredients etc.

And as people are coming to me, rather than the other way around, they don't feel pushed in a negative way. Especially children often love the vegan stuff and explicitly demand (!) the dishes from their parents after they tasted the flavor. As the parents often have issues to find healthy food that their children like, my tips are often very welcome.

My favorite choice for such occasions is all kind of seitan, because it's easy and fast to make, has high protein, a great texture and is very versatile based on the spices you add.

Doing it my way, you don't turn omnivores into vegans in a day but I definitely know that many of them integrated various plant based foods into their everyday cooking and reduced their consumption of animal products.