I’m probably gonna be downvoted to hell but I was rebutted by the part where the guy just throws away food because it was not vegan (and stopped reading after that). He did mention health issue concerns, so maybe it was on good faith, but AFAIK if you’re hungry, and I mean really hungry, you don’t care. You just eat what you have as long as it is edible.

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xvxvx 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Amazing the amount of people who hate on him for this part of the story. He didn’t throw away food, he stuck to his morals and didn’t eat it. Hating on a poor person for having dignity? Keep up the good work.

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watwut 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It is because that part does not track at all. It is not healthier to go hungry then to eat that food. It is not "simple life" to ge vegan, it is cranking the complexity and expenses up.

Some part of the story are clear failures of the system. Some parts have nothing to do with the system (moms and dads decision). Some parts are system actually helping, maybe not enough but helping.

And then there were genuinely confusing parts as in someone with a seemingly normal job and three houses feeling like they dont have secure housing.

	▲	aziaziazi an hour ago \| parent [-]
		If someone makes a decision base on wrong information, what’s to blame: the informations he got or his judgement ability? Two dimensions to interpret this: - article author judgement on what’s healthy based solely on its personal nutritional knowledge at the moment. - the judgement of his decision, solely on the details of this post. IMHO the only fault here is to omit more information he was basing his decision. But reading between the lines: he repeat being "hungry" but never saying "staving". That’s a huge difference: being hungry isn’t a health hasard.

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SirensOfTitan 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So because of his economic realities he should be pragmatic enough to drop his values?

Can't you see what a slippery slope that is? And in fact, how dangerous that level of economic despair is for a functioning democracy?

It's also not fair, because people who are more fortunate to be born into a well-off family can eat vegan their whole lives.

This person did everything he was supposed to do, stood up for things he believed in, and still was left in the lurch along the way. This is not the American dream, it is a clear indication how arrested social mobility is in the US. The rags-to-riches "Horatio Alger" story has been a myth in the US for quite a well, buoyed by anecdotes that are predicated on luck.

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