/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11432008
I have nothing against being vegetarian, and if anything I think it's a moral choice deserving of praise. Buuuut when you come onto a thread about medieval peasants and start reeeing about how you don't need meat, expect to be laughed at. For most of human history we didn't have the diversity of foods we have today that allow for a viable meat free diet. It just reeks of modern day entitlement. Europe wasn't overflowing with protein rich beans before global trade began, or any of the other protein rich plant materials. Plus everyone worked really hard.

Put yourself in the shoes of some random dude in Poland in the year 1000. You do hard manual labor for several months out of the year. You grow wheat, and some (not very protein rich) vegetables, maybe some apples, and livestock. If you forgo meat, you are stuck just eating eggs and milk for protein to replenish your body after doing a full day of hard work. If it's just one dude doing it, the village weirdo, I guess he can just eat a whole lot of eggs and chug milk. If it's everyone doing it though, there just aren't enough chickens to make all the eggs or enough cows to make the milk, there's a limit to their efficiency. And if you don't eat the animals, they just reproduce until they all overgraze and everyone dies. Congrats.

Vegetarians are too often cringelord zealots.

Quality thread, you should be proud of yourself.