Now Is the Perfect Time to Contemplate a Vegan Future

There’s no time like the present to inch closer to vegetarianism and hone your plant-cooking skills — soon, the other stuff may be obsolete

J Krumrine, PhD
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5 min readApr 28, 2020

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Shiitake mushroom by Kōno Bairei, digitally enhanced from ‘Barei Gakan’ (1913), via Rawpixel

One recent, sleepless night I came across an essay by a friend, Matt Willmott, on how to proceed after the Coronavirus pandemic. It provided what I needed to get back to sleep — that feeling that even now, within the confines of my own home, there are things I can do to improve the state of the world. Here’s my contribution, to help you sleep too.

We’re months into the pandemic, and what seems to me to be missing from the “Analysis” or “Opinion” sections of the news coverage is an obvious tack for society to take to be able to continue feeding itself and, at the same time, lessen the probability that another zoonotic pandemic might come our way in future years. Maybe it’s still too early for discussion around our eating habits to take root, I told myself, and then, almost on cue, Tyson announced meat shortages coming our way. Yes, I’m…

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A vegan magazine that’s hopefully devoted to delicious plants, liberated animals, and leading a radical, sustainable, joyful life

J Krumrine, PhD
J Krumrine, PhD

Written by J Krumrine, PhD

freelance science writer, former scientist, parent

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