Myth #29: “But going vegan is so expensive.”
Yes, quite a few of your politicians have been bought out by the meat & milk industry, making vegan alternatives far more expensive than they could be and animal products far cheaper to buy than they are to produce. And yet despite this flagrant criminality (our government officials have been placed in office to serve us in order to make our lives better, not kill us to make their lives better), it is still cheaper to eat a balanced, vegan diet than a meat & milk infested one.
Consider the following facts:
*Fact #01: Vegan staples (e.g. lentils, beans, rice, quinoa, oats, barley etc) are as inexpensive as they are nutritious. Once your dietary habit patterns shift (a biological-psychological process that generally takes 2-4 weeks), you will become more efficient in how you use these foods, and thereafter the level of your health will increase — along with the size of your bank balance.
*Fact #02: No matter how expensive vegan food might be in your local grocery store, eating vegan will always be cheaper than the hospital bills you will inevitably be asked to pay as a consequence of a diet containing animal products.
*Fact #03: The prices on your meat & milk-based foods are misleading — i.e. you are actually paying far more for them than you think. In fact, American taxpayers currently pay almost 40 BILLION DOLLARS every year to fund the government’s subsidies (corporate welfare programs) to the meat & dairy industry. In fact, there are between $2 & $3 in hidden costs (taxes, subsidized subsidies, health costs, environmental reparative outlays etc) that you incur for every $1 of animal product you purchase.
Of course, when it gets right down to it, veganism is not about you and your comfort anyway. It is about harmonizing your actions with your ethics … It is about refusing to fund animal cruelty & animal abuse … It is simply about doing what is Right … And I do realize how important financial matters are to most folks, which is why it gives me such great joy to champion a change to veganism — a change that will you save money while “saving your Soul”.
Current status of this Myth: Quashed
Justification it provides for eating animals: NONE
“Eating healthy might cost you money,
and yet eating unhealthy will cost you your life.”
~ anonymous
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