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I did start caring more about animals after I went vegan. I was never frying ants for fun, but I also never got sad about petting zoos, for example.
So hey, maybe it’s more common that people adopt a moral system that makes meat seem less like food no matter how they start out.
Yes, of course that would be the case.
We come pre-built with a TON of instinct that initially drives our behaviour but we can override those with some information and effort by our big brains.
Perhaps I should have said it differently. After decades of being a vegetarian, I went plant-based for the environment, then fairly quickly went vegan, because I started caring about animals a lot more.
I don’t know if that’s just as obvious, but I was definitely surprised.
What's non-vegan about pasta?
Semolina flour and water? Is that not the ultimate vegan food?
May I introduce you to the concept of cheese?
I mean, that's added to the pasta after, the pasta itself is just flour and water, cooked in salt water.
Whatever you do to it AFTER THAT, well, that's on you. ;) I personally don't do cheese. Not vegan or lactose intolerant, I just don't like cheese.
There are plenty of pasta sauces that don't involve meat, dairy or eggs.
Flour, water and egg yolks.
Most dried pasta is vegan, though. Unless specifically buying egg pasta.
I wouldn't have ever checked the ingredients on dried pasta if you didn't tell me this. Thanks.
You're welcome! I don't know why it's so uncommon knowledge that pasta is just 2 ingredients, but this isn't the first occurrence I told someone that didn't know :P
I think OP was referring to what goes ON said pasta
A lot of pasta sauces have butter in them, personally my favorite pasta sauce is a homemade tomato sauce by Alton Brown (https://altonbrown.com/recipes/pantry-friendly-tomato-sauce/ ), it's vegan even though I'm not.
I usually do a double batch once a month (more or less, depends on how quick we use it) and it fills up 3 32 oz mason jars with 4-8 oz extra. It's amazing on pasta, pizza, eggs, burgers, meatballs, pretty much anything that's good with tomato. Cheaper and tastier than buying jarred tomato sauce by far, plus you can make it as chunky or smooth as you want by how much you blend it. Only costs a few bucks to make too.
I make Chef John's tomato sauce which is not vegan as it has anchovies but could be made so by skipping them. It is delicious.
While I do like a good pasta with just tomato sauce, I tend to love more complex ones most of which have something else in it that is not vegan unfortunately. Pasta itself would contain eggs (maybe dried pasta uses some vegan friendly substitute?)
I think my blood is 50% noodles by now, I frickin love pasta.
You forgot cheese?
If you cut out all of the pastas that have eggs, cheese, butter, milk, meat, shellfish, or fish (anchovies) then you’re cutting out the vast majority of restaurant pastas and the majority of pasta recipes you’ll find in recipe books unless they’re specifically vegan (restaurants or books).
I'm talking about the pasta itself, not the finished dishes. What you do to the pasta after it's cooked is where the non-vegan part comes in.
The noodles themselves? Wheat flour and water.
The finished dish is called pasta. The basic component you’re talking about is noodles.
many sauces require some sort of meat, cheese or other animal products (eggs, etc)
That's not the fault of the pasta though. ;)
Skill issue
Depends how you handle it! I live off a diet of party poppers and fireworks, and I think it's a blast.
Marinara pizzas are awesome. And I'm not even vegan
Vegetarian diet could be animal cruelty free.
GIVE ME THE PIZZA, PRECIOUS