Bohemian_Garnet_Permaculturalist asked: Do you only eat locally produced, AND in season, fruits, vegtables, nuts, and grains?
Do you ever eat exotic foods, like mango, papaya, star fruit, brazil nuts, coconuts, bannanas, coffee, most tea, ackee, bread fruit, many figs, many olives, many cactus fruits, cashew apples, many dates, cherimoya, durian (don’t expect many have eaten that!), feijoa, guava, jackfruit, litchi, mangosteen, monstera AKA Mexican Breadfuit, tamarind, or an host of other exotic fruits, vegtables and nuts I didn’t list?
If you do eat the exotic foods how do you justify that as a vegan? The exotic plantations are well known for the killing of snakes (that might bite workers), bats, birds, monkeys and other animals that might come and feed at the plantations.
As a responsible vegan should you not only eat what is grown in the U.S., in your local area, and only when it’s in season? No strawberries in December grown in Brazil.
This question is for the Vegans here in the U.S. It is NOT for people who like to put Vegans down, nor pick on them. If you cannot say something nice, do not say it at all!
Hkryan, no worries, your cashews undoubtly come from California, as there are ENORMOUS groves of them there. Avacadoes too.
Bella, you may not be aware of this, but there is actually a growing movement in the U.S. to only eat locally grown (250 miles of where you live) foods, that are in season. This movement is coming about because of fears about global warming.
Redshirt, is there something wrong with that argument, when one is a Vegan for animal abuse/moral reasons? Should Vegan’s not also think about what is happening on farms where their food is grown?
Robert B, frankly I am shocked about the idea of wanting your foods grown with fertilizer other than animal manures. That basically boils down to chemical fertilizers which are oil based. Do you have any idea what those chemicals are doing to the soil, the drinking water, and the water fish live in? Truely those chemicals are terrifying.
Delores
AND JUST KNOW you’re changing my life…thank you
