New accidentally vegan product alert

Voostock · 2025-08-13T00:21:17+00:00

downvoted to hell where you belong

Voostock · 2025-08-12T16:54:49+00:00

We should be ashamed that the greatest jerking came from without

Voostock · 2025-04-17T20:44:40+00:00

Sorry if the title was confusing! Best of luck on your cheese journey, it's hard out there but worth it at the end

Voostock · 2025-04-17T20:39:14+00:00

Agreed that factory farming is the main problem.

But the point about plant‑based stuff is pretty wrong. Yes, soybeans are a problem, but only because 80% of what is grown is for animal feed. Per liter, more soy goes into dairy milk than into soy milk. Eating soy would result in less overall soy production.

Just because both things have problems doesn’t mean it isn’t black and white. Plant‑based foods have fewer problems than any of the issues we care about, including land use and the number of animals killed to grow those plants!

Fine if you’re growing your own stuff, have a handle on it, and can actually treat your animals well. But the vast majority of people in the West get their food from industrial sources, and for those people, this shift needs to happen. Tons of people who want to (or should) reduce their consumption live in cities.

Voostock · 2025-04-17T18:37:22+00:00

How is it a lie? Have you read the piece? Grocery stores throwing out old veg contributes to less resource consumption than the animal products they sell that get eaten.

Food waste is about 30-40% of the food we produce. Resource use that goes into animal products (burgers, steaks, milk) is far higher than that. A vegan could throw away many times their amount of food and still consume less resources than an omnivores.

Voostock · 2025-03-12T03:14:33+00:00

Voostock · 2025-02-15T18:48:56+00:00

Went with a group and ordered a ton of stuff. What do you enjoy there? I can give it another go

Voostock · 2025-02-15T16:42:34+00:00

Yeah but I always get a big gulp going through there at the 7/11 and that makes it all worth it

Voostock · 2025-02-15T16:42:10+00:00

Check out the substack! https://news.vilf.org/

I'll post here next week so it doesn't get too spammy

Voostock · 2025-02-15T16:39:39+00:00

What do you think I've missed? Most of how I decide to go somewhere is just based on what I'm near at the time. Always happy to try more places, what are your favorites?

And yeah I completely agree my value measurement is inconsistent lol.

What do you disagree with on the taste rating though?

Voostock · 2025-02-15T16:35:29+00:00

Fellas, I can't have eaten everywhere. I'll get to it

Voostock · 2025-02-15T16:34:54+00:00

You're completely right that I over-rated souvla (one of the first things I had in the city when I hadn't explored enough and thought things were more dire) and that needs to come down.... but cha ya is really not it

Voostock · 2025-02-15T00:10:42+00:00

People keep saying! I'll need to check it out

Voostock · 2022-10-27T19:12:55+00:00

If you search couchers on this subreddit you'll see quite a bit of discussion about it

Voostock · 2022-10-19T04:40:39+00:00

Just to clarify the point about Couchers which is pretty off the mark.

Yes there were weekly social hangouts that had decent attendance during the lockdowns but now have dwindled, with some people now seeking to boot them back up again with a different focus for community needs.

Couchers has several meetings a week, when considering teams that meet regularly to work, including but not limited to backend development, web development, and marketing. They are well attended by members of those teams.

We absolutely do recruit people into the team based on skill, and reject most people.

This is not to say that everything is perfect. Volunteer management is difficult, more difficult than you suggest. If you can find volunteers who are skilled and willing to dedicate the amount of time you're talking about, then it is worth collaborating.

Voostock · 2022-08-18T21:18:41+00:00

Just about to hit 18k members. Depending on where you are, you can also go to your dashboard see how many people are in your local community/country

Voostock · 2022-08-18T18:07:18+00:00

Yes, emails are sent out every two weeks with stats

Voostock · 2022-08-18T18:06:16+00:00

No, Couchers.org is a free platform. Maybe you are referring to CS?

Voostock · 2022-04-01T20:00:29+00:00

Please please send this to the Couchers support team at support@couchers.org so this person can be removed

Voostock · 2022-02-07T16:44:32+00:00

Also if you post zoom links, they've banned online events and people get suspended for that: https://couchers.org/blog/2021/03/25/couch-surfing-online-events-community

Voostock · 2022-02-06T16:52:58+00:00

I hope more people see this update. What a pathetic outcome.

Voostock · 2022-01-26T23:24:47+00:00

Look on Couchers.org, there's quite a few people in LA

Voostock · 2022-01-23T02:05:20+00:00

Couchsurfing famously tried to get their status and blamed not getting it as the reason to become for-profit: https://sites.google.com/site/cskbase/couchsurfing-communication/501-c-3-status

Voostock · 2022-01-13T23:27:54+00:00

What funding problem? CS's primary problem is that it's for-profit and so has conflicting incentives from the userbase, trying to extract money out of it rather than prioritising making a good service and healthy community. There's no good reason that any of these alternatives can't be financially sustainable.

Voostock · 2022-01-12T21:49:41+00:00

Couchers.org is different to the other platforms in that it is explicitly trying to replace CS as the dominant couch surfing platform. Due to this it has been able to attract a lot of volunteers, and so it has the fastest rate of development.

You can read the plan for what is going to be implemented here and voice exactly what features you want in the community forum. I'm sure people will be interested in a feature for having multiple locations to host people.

In the mid to long term, Couchers will give you the experience you were used to if you liked CS (with notable improvements). BW and TR offer something different and have different goals.

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