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How Thinking Like a Vegan Can Get You Through This Quarantine
The secret skills you learn as a vegan are perfectly suited to this moment
If you clicked on this, you’re very brave. Most people would probably scroll on with the assumption that I was going to lecture them about eating animals. Nah. I’ll do that another time assuming there is still a habitable planet after the dust settles from our current zoonotic pandemic. Though if you were really in the mood for a good scolding about animal ag, you can certainly find some on my platform to whet your appetite. For now, though, my goal is to let you know how thinking like a vegan can help you access skills for navigating this quarantine with more ease. Any future ones, too!
How so? Well, until vegans can exist on righteous indignation and simmering rage alone — we’re working on it — we will just continue leaning on the very habits that helped us to thrive as herbivores in a meat-eating world. It just so happens that these practices are also good for navigating a quarantine. Who knew? There are so many benefits to being vegan, during and not during a quarantine, but one thing it will not help you with is needing less toilet paper, if that is a concern, because, you know, all that fiber in the diet, but you’re likely going to have more pleasant bathroom experiences, even if you…
