Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by it IRL

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    8 months ago

    I don’t need context to know that eating 3000 calories is doable on a vegan diet. Not everything is about you. I specifically said, multiple times, that the only part I’m arguing is that you said needing a lot of calories is a reason to eat animal products. On its own it just isn’t true at all. You could need 1500 calories or 5000, it would still be possible for a human being to live on a vegan diet. It’s completely irrelevant to why you can’t eat a vegan diet. Like I said already, I’m sure there a reasons why you can’t eat a vegan diet and that’s completely fine, but needing 3000 calories is not a reason to not eat a vegan diet for anyone, including you.

    I don’t know why you want to talk about maintenance calories vs calories to gain weight. It still doesn’t matter what the number is or for what reason you picked the number, you can eat any amount of calories you need on a vegan diet. You yourself probably can’t because of your allergy and other factors, but not because of the caloric content of vegan food. I just don’t know why you think calories are even relevant when talking about whether or not you eat a vegan diet.