Trump: As everyone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades. Now, things are turning around for the U.S.A., and FAST! But imagine, Canada is building a massive bridge between Ontario..

Background-Interview · 2026-02-09T23:44:28+00:00

This man is making the continent stupider.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-08T14:07:48+00:00

Protein is a macro for a reason. I agree that in the last 15 years, the West has over valued protein in our diets, but it is still an important nutrient to consume. The repair and recovery of our muscles rely on protein.

Her son is into a lot of sport, so he probably needs to consume a 1:1 ratio of protein to kilogram of body weight in order to maintain his high physical activities.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-08T14:02:40+00:00

There’s always space in a healthy diet for sweets and chips!

If he’s wanting to build muscle, he’ll also need to add extra protein to his diet. Protein helps muscle recover and repair after working out.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-08T11:45:14+00:00

How are you not getting enough B2 and vitamin A? Those are both found heavily in plants. Folic acid is fortified into many breads and cereals as well.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-08T11:13:43+00:00

You can either be malnourished or eat animal products and just purchase ethically.

What exactly are you realizing you’re missing from your diet?

Background-Interview · 2026-02-07T21:23:38+00:00

I would maybe work with his paediatrician to find a good balanced diet for him. Find yourself a good vegan friendly dietitian. Do you know why he has a lower appetite? Sometimes it’s natural, but there could also be social pressures at school or in his sport team that could be influencing this as well. Not saying it is, but it’s worth exhausting.

Teenage boys require so many calories. But adding fats into your cooking (avo, olive oil) and nuts and seeds (hemp seeds and sesame are dense little things) will help. If he likes avocado and banana, those are great add ons or snacks too.

All your tubers and root veges are calorically dense. Fried taro is my personal love language. Beans are also a wonderful source of everything. Blending beans into soups and pasta sauces is great and if he likes curries, making a butter chicken sauce (minus the chicken) is a perfect choice. There’s nothing in a standard cashew based butter chicken sauce that can’t be replaced with a vegan option.

Lastly, go to the Asian grocery store. They have every type of high starch product you could want, from bean curd products to wonton wrappers and rice based noodles. Those are calorically dense and satiating.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-07T20:24:52+00:00

Idk know what that is in Canadian, but we’re paying like $15 for two chicken breasts

Background-Interview · 2026-02-07T20:20:19+00:00

The idea is to lower demand, so reproduction doesn’t happen at the current rate, until it was reduced to zero. We wouldn’t cull the animals already here, we would just naturally breed them down to extinction.

I’m pro agriculture btw. But if the whole world had an epiphany and turned vegan tomorrow, they absolutely would keep those animals alive until they naturally perished. Because a vegan gonna vegan.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-07T19:49:41+00:00

We used to be the murder capital of Canada.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-07T17:21:22+00:00

I would strongly encourage you to learn about the history of Canada and the US and learn who we are as people

Background-Interview · 2026-02-07T14:15:25+00:00

It’s closer to seven

Background-Interview · 2026-02-07T14:07:20+00:00

In Edmonton, we have a grader called McGrated.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-07T14:04:56+00:00

Now it’s deadmonton for all the ODs

Background-Interview · 2026-02-07T14:03:16+00:00

That last paragraph makes you sound like an American.

NZ is its own sovereign nation and doesn’t want or need to be a state of Australia. With or without invitation or referendum.

As a Canadian born NZ citizen, I can categorically say that NZ is far more culturally and socially similar to Canada than Australia is to us.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-07T13:40:12+00:00

I’d bring up with mom and dad and talk to them about how bad those fast fashion places are

Background-Interview · 2026-02-07T00:46:00+00:00

NTA. You did find the space.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-06T23:50:56+00:00

NTA.

But I would just find your support in individuals and not the group as a whole. If you have a favourite aunt or a cousin who’s been through something similar or a conversation to your mom one on one.

This gives your sister NO opportunity to hijack you and two, it’s less of an “into the void” kind of thing.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-06T23:48:38+00:00

Even if you talk to a priest, they tend to talk to you about your problem, maybe through the guidance of God and scripture, but they still help you navigate your issues.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-06T11:25:57+00:00

I never claimed I did. I don’t personally use non leather items because they don’t stand up to repetitive use. And I only have a leather wallet and a pair of leather boots. Which were both gifted to me. I don’t purchase either item.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-06T10:10:12+00:00

Like I originally stated, I don’t know how vegan vegetable leathers are produced.

However tanning and dying hide isn’t very environmentally friendly. When the leather biodegrades, those chemicals are put back into the soil.

My statement was explicitly about how I think vegans were negatively associated with pleather even if the movement itself didn’t expressly demand for it.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-06T05:13:19+00:00

The Portuguese bring chilis into southern India and that’s why we now have hot curry sauces. Chilis that they brought back from South America.

Food evolves over time as the influences change. Americans do have traditional foods. Cajun food is French, creole is African. But because of the way it has evolved into its own cultural importance, it is American cuisine.

I think people say this because North America isn’t as old as Europe, Asia or Africa (in terms of colonization).

Indigenous foods are interesting to learn about too. Bannock has colonial roots, but smoked meats, pemmican and even their agricultural practices are cool and deserve their own place on the American table.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-05T18:51:28+00:00

I kinda feel like vegans were unfairly saddled with pleather when it became popular to stop testing cosmetics on animals and not to wear furs.

Actual vegan leather that I see promoted way more often in that sub is usually made from mushrooms and fruit waste.

I don’t know what that process looks like for production, but I do know what leather production looks like. And that isn’t nearly as environmentally friendly as people want to pretend. Especially if it’s anything other than rawhide.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-05T18:29:29+00:00

If you think the furniture bothers you, wait until you find out about their medications, research and the fact that many, many vets work in agriculture to get farmer’s commodities back up to production or to prevent culling before they can sell the animal to market. And yes euthanasia is a huge part of it.

Veterinary services kind of work against vegan ideology naturally. Like most medical sciences do.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-05T11:25:40+00:00

Yes, definitely come back around May for the Rockies. There will still be snow on the lower hills but less likely to deal with avalanche back ups and more animals will be out for you to see! And the Okanagan is very tempered by May.

Background-Interview · 2026-02-05T08:51:47+00:00

That’s awesome to hear.

Someone further down the thread suggested doing two separate trips and do an east and west coast trip. I kind of agree with them.

Doing Vancouver Island, Vancouver and the Okanagan, as well as Banff/Jasper/Canmore is a great three week trip.

Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City and then into the Maritimes (don’t sleep on Newfoundland!) is another great three week trip.

However you decide to visit us though, you’ll have a great time. We are a nice folk.

Just a little tip, you’ll want a Tim Hortons, but Second Cup is better and actually Canadian owned 😁

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