Veganuary

January 6, 2023 Longrider General News, General Rants, Humour, misanthropy 31

Here we go again.

The annual Veganuary challenge encourages meat-eaters to adopt a vegan lifestyle throughout the month of January.   

And popular high street fast food restaurant’s [sic. Don’t these people have editors? – Ed] have got involved by launching plant-based alternatives to everyones takeaway favourites.

From Domino’s, who have launched a vegan ‘pepperoni’ pizza to Subway’s plant-based Teriyaki sub there’s something for everyone looking to cut their meat intake this month.

The nation is cutting more and more meat and dairy from their diets as plant-based food consumption has doubled in the UK alone with an estimated 8.9 million people exploring a vegan lifestyle.

Okay, I have a response… Not entirely original as I’ve adapted it from elsewhere, but it suits.

I don’t want to.

I like meat and I don’t want to appear disloyal.

January is already a miserable fucking bastard.

Just not going to do it, OK.

Fuck off.

Any questions?

31 Comments

  1. It’ll be interesting to see how much more there is for the rest of us. Let’s stock up that freezer.

    • ’The nation is cutting more and more meat and dairy from their diets…’

      Stated as plain fact. But are they? The overwhelming preponderance of this vegan stuff on the yellow sticker shelf says it isn’t doing it in anything like the percentages necessary to make it profitable…

  3. If I lived in the UK, on a cold, dark, miserable January evening I’d very much look forward to something like a lamb hotpot. As it is, I’m more likely to throw lamb chops or a spatchcock chicken on the BBQ.

  4. I think that the inability to live your life and leave other people alone to live theirs is an actual moral failing. If someone wants to live on a totally plant based diet fine. It is the tiresome recruitment drives that are a problem. See also my earlier post about Dry January.

    • That’s what pisses me off. I seem to have gone through my life with various activist groups or the government – or both in lockstep – trying to push me into changing the way I live. Well, no. Fuck off.

      • Oh and there’s more. Tim Worstal has just run a story about clowns who think that there should be a limit on how many changes of clothing you have.

    • Vegetarianism or Veganism is a personal choice. As an omnivore I am quite happy for others to make such a decision for themselves, but they must in turn respect my choice to eat meat or fish.

      That the organisations pushing veganism often get taxpayer funding adds injury to insult.

  5. Don’t worry, it will soon be fuckoffuary. Let’s see what state these whiny, anaemic streaks of piss will be in then.

  6. @ Stoneyground
    “I think that the inability to live your life and leave other people alone to live theirs is an actual moral failing.”

    But some people are always going to be attracted by the absolutists mindset. Crusades, Jihads, Prohibition, Human Rights trump everything, Utopianism, Puritanism, Censorship, shadow banning – basically the worry that someone, somewhere, is having unapproved fun. The strength of such desire to control is seen to validate the morals, not be seen as a moral failing.

    You already knew this of course. My suggestion is that in the chaotic and uncertain period between two elites and the adjuvants of social media, the criticism of others has been supercharged.

      • It annoys me that the Goblin of Doom can make a statement like “Entire eco systems are dying.” Without anyone calling her out and asking her to provide specific examples. It goes without saying that there aren’t any.

  11. I’m sure I read something in the financial press recently that claimed the manufacturers of this garbage were scaling back production because it wasn’t exactly flying off the shelves. Just can’t remember where I read it. Age…

    • I read that but can’t find it. It also said a couple of firms had gone bust.

      How can you tell if someone is a Vegan?

      It’s simple. They tell you. Again and again and again…..

  13. Yes there was a report that plant based ‘meat’ wasn’t selling. It must have been on the BBC website but somethings don’t stay on the site long.
    I know vegans and they like their own foods. The only thing they seem to like is vegan sausages. So if they aren’t buying them why should meat eaters.

  14. I don’t eat meat, only fish. For some non meat eaters the point is that killing sentient creatures for food is immoral and the vegans are sort of taking this principle to its logical conclusion. On the subject of fake meat, many vegans and vegetarians made the decision to become so as adults. They grew up with the format of meat potatoes and vegetables for a meal. Proper vegetarian cooking is usually quite different, there are ingredients that provide protein and herbs and spices that provide flavour because often vegetables are fairly bland. Vegetarian sausages are the only kind of fake meat that I like but I’m not a vegan so I do eat eggs and cheese.

    • Veggie sausages are probably the best out of the list of veggie meat-a-likes. They are very versatile. I use them to make toad in the hole as I’ve yet to perfect the recipe for milk free yorkshire pud batter..

      I rarely see in my local supermarkets veggie sausages in the yellow sticker pile so it seems this particular item sells well probably because there are more vegetarians out there than there are vegans.

    • I am not a vegetarian. I am perhaps too old and set in my ways to be struck by the vegetarian/vegan impulse. But I have always liked nut cutlets and other similar products and am quite happy to eat them instead of meat for a meal.

      On the other hand false meat, bacon, cheese etc. does not appeal.

  15. Oops, I lied about the fake meat, I use fake mince in my bolognese style pasta sauce. I do also do a cheese sauce for pasta that contains just butter, flour, milk and cheese with some seasoning.

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