So I have recently gotten interested in home plant based meat substitutes like seitan and this guy pops up every time I look for recipe guides on Youtube and I have noticed a few red flags. As an example, he has like 20 different hamburger recipes that all use wildly different ingredients while claiming they are all better tasting than Impossible meat. And of those recipes, most use highly processed or sponsored ingredients that are difficult to get.
He sucks, when I first started making vegan burgers I tried one of his recipes and it was so bad my partner and I wouldn’t even eat it! While he was sitting there with his wife saying it’s amazing better than anything else
He’s not vegan so 🤷♀️
He is not? Does he just make vegan recipes?
Thompson and Stone, who are set to tie the knot in October, are pescetarians. “Our plant-based journey is a little tough because of medical reasons,” says Thompson.
Well at least he is trying.
I’m not about supporting people who profit from veganism (period, but especially if they aren’t vegan themselves).
I mean if you want the movement to die then go right ahead, because that applies to all influencers and professional advocates.
We as a community (this lemmy comm is for a discord server) are staunchly against all influencers, celebrity worship and businesses who would use veganism and animal rights to grow their businesses to support non vegans. Celebrity worship is toxic. This includes by extension plant-based meats by meat companies. Come into the discord server if you want to learn more about how these companies use marketing and horizontal segmentation and how it works to grow the consumption of animal products with vegan brands. We do not support any businesses here and use generic names as much as possible in our posts for this reason.
https://stevebizblog.com/how-to-crush-the-competition-with-horizontal-segmentation/
https://www.reddit.com/r/VeganForCircleJerkers/comments/q5hkq2/comment/hg63z3b
The way I see it, content creators and “influencers” are the same thing and watching content or reading blogs are not the same as celebrity worship. Technically, all people who work at vegan non-profits are profiting from veganism.
Which movement? Plant based capitalism or veganism? Veganism will do just fine.
Veganism is more than just not eating animal products. If it’s not anti-speciest, it’s not vegan.
Hamid’s reply has some good information in it. If people find his videos and recipes useful, then great! But I certainly don’t hold influencers in high regards. Their job is engagement and selling.
I think his recipes are too complicated. He is also kind of a jerk, I called him out for not being vegan lol. I don’t eat anything food sciency and the most processed thing I use is tvp on occassion. I eat mostly beans and rice
I’m in favor of absolutely anyone and everyone who talks about veganism in a positive way and is well-meaning, personally.
Make the tent bigger even if it has people who are different from you.
I’ve made quite a few of his recipes. Tbh, I think he’s forgotten what non-vegan food tastes like. This also goes for “Thee Burger Dude” (although his stuff typically has less specialty ingredients.
At least part of this comes down to the never ending crusade for a meat substitute that’s “better than the real thing.”
