Vegan mac made with 🌱cheddar & 🌱 mozzarella shreds, bbq tofu and spinach salad with 🌱bleu cheese dressing
Come join the Vegan Home Cooks!
Participation is really easy, just take a picture of what you cooked today and post it, no recipes needed.
This is a public forum for a discord server of friends who are all vegans and cook at home for their families.
We are here to share some inspiration, to see what others are doing and to stay engaged in something that is both our hobby and a required task.
This forum is not a "food porn" community, a recipe book or a place to teach you how to cook. It is a place for people who already cook to meet other people like themselves and provide on topic support and conversation as much as long distance friends on the internet can do. We are doing show and tell about what we made and we don't care about its instagram worthiness.
Veganism isn’t a diet but I have to eat every day. This is for the vegan home cooks. Anything non vegan will be deleted.
Rules
1. Be Vegan.
If it is not vegan it doesn’t belong here… or anywhere.
2. Post home cooking.
No restaurant or fast food. This is what every other vegan space is about and we don’t want to promote any large or small business tyrants.
We’re an active community of vegan home cooks that like to talk about what we are cooking today.
4. Do not make any rude comments or digs at anyone’s food, cooking style, specific diet, restrictions or technique.
While we are all cooks, we all have different requirements and we’re not asking for help, we are doing show and tell.
5. Do not use trademarked brands
Use generic names. We’re cooking with tvp not whatever business brands it and we’re not trying to turn comrades into billboards. No plant-based vegan-pandering capitalist crap like Impossible, Beyond, Dairy-company owned “vegan” cheese.
6. Do not ask for a recipe without otherwise engaging the OP (No posts that are just “recipe?”)
We are not food bloggers. Sometimes we're excited to share and will tell you the recipes we used but this isn't required. Instead try doing your own research and tell us what you learned and we can talk about it.
7. Careful with making unasked for suggestions.
Sometimes we like to hear suggestions but you should be nice about it and know the person you are making suggestions to. We are in the discord and you can get to know us that way. If you are just a visitor from the fediverse, this isn’t the place for you to start telling other people what to do.
8. Grown Ups Only.
Cooking for our kids is great, Acting like one is not. While this isn't a community for adult material we expect everyone who participates to be an adult and act like one. Please follow the Anarchists Code of Conduct. No profane usernames allowed.
Hi!
Here is my take: this is not intended to be a recipe site, it's intended to share what you have cooked. Maybe posts with that level of detail would be better suited to c/recipes ?
I'm not trying to discourage people from sharing how they cooked something in this community if that's what they would like to do. I am suggesting this as a way to keep this space brand free while not discouraging your contributions.
What do you think?
I was asking more in the context of responding to a question, if someone is asking for how I made something whether it's OK to mention brands in my responding comments.
I don't mention brands in original posts, that's easy for me (I'm usually just sharing photos, not recipes).
Oh! I don't see myself interjecting in someone's conversation in the comments.
kk, thanks for the clarification - so is the rule primarily about the title, or about the description in the original post then? That makes a lot more sense to me, esp. the title because it's visible from a front-page and is more at risk of being an advertisement.
I wish I could give you a super clear answer but that's not realistic for me lol
Maybe this would help: The reason I said something here was because I saw someone who I thought might just have not seen the rules. I'm not trying to give people a hard time.
I don't think I see an argument for it being beneficial to the community to name brands in the title or body of the OP, unprompted. If someone asks, that's at least a prompt that makes sense to me.
Unsolicited personal opinion: I do think it's important for people to understand that some 'vegan' products were developed through direct harm to animals. It's good to have a little think about what you are choosing to buy and why.
That's OK, I think your answer is pretty clear.
I'm an ethical vegan, I should say, so I treat my veganism as a form of boycott to create pressure and deny profits from animal agriculture, particularly large-scale, cruel industrial animal ag. So I have hang-ups about lots of vegan products and the animal deaths and harm involved.
Gardein especially bothers me because they are a brand owned by ConAgra (one of the major conglomerates responsible for animal ag operations), so I feel like buying vegan products from them is essentially bypassing the ethical boycott entirely. It's less relevant to me that the product I buy is not made of animals or whether I am eating animal products (i.e. the diet aspect is irrelevant), and it's much more important to me that I engage in a critical consumerism that denies companies money for their unethical practices.
To that end, I consider labor concerns and human suffering as just as legitimate or even more important (considering human capacity for suffering, and humans are animals as well of course) as concerns about the suffering of non-human animals.
Admittedly this led me to some extremes like refusing to use a car in a very car-centric place that consistently landed me in emergency rooms, and I've been sorta de-radicalizing since a particularly bad time that I was hit by a car. I've been trying to put my moral feelings into perspective more.
I certainly think most if not all consumption can be tied to an extreme form of wrong-doing, and what-aboutism is a fallacy that doesn't give us an excuse for not taking seriously those harms. That said, I have not been able to live as extremely as I would like to mitigate my personal participation in those harms, and the moderate actions I took ended not just in extreme discomfort and inconvenience but significant and permanent harm to me.
So I am trying to give myself a little grace and recognize that my responsibility as an individual consumer is proportionate, and that I am not singularly responsible for the harms of an industry I did not create nor do I support. So now I try to do what I can where it is helpful, but to engage in self-care as well because otherwise I seem to lean towards dying, which apparently causes other people distress in my life.