vegan mukbang | a booktuber tries mukbang while talking too much

[@yingchenkwok4511]

Hihi :) I think VeganBurg's chili krab patty is made of konnyaku. It's a fish/crab substitute that's a lot more common in Asia. I think Singapore is an amazing place to be vegan because it taps on deep traditions of plant-based food from Buddhism and Hinduism while also being on the cutting edge of Western trends in meat substitutes (that the Asian market is increasingly contesting). As someone who's been vegan for almost 10 years now, I do have a lot of thoughts about the Westernization (or as I like to call it, gentrification) of plant-based food. Soy and gluten-based meat alternatives originated in Asia and have been around for probably thousands of years, and the West only discovered and appropriated the idea of plant-based meat alternatives for themselves in what, the past 100 years? So yeah, when people say veganism is a "Western" thing, there's also a lot of cultural erasure and forgetting involved :( All the foods most associated with Western vegan diets were taken from elsewhere: tofu from East Asia, lentils from South Asia, quinoa and avocado from South America, and so on.

[@anattynook]

hi yingchen!! oh yes, thank you for the info, I've been enjoying lots of konnyaku here in sg lately too :) and yes thank you for highlighting this fact that is so much history surrounding plant-based food that exists in Singapore and non-Western societies. I do think that the term 'vegan' still conjures up a lot of assumptions that people don't always want to dig deeper into themselves. Still, I do think it's very possible (and not too difficult I hope) for these misconceptions to change v soon!!

[@x3hobeyho]

Love the change of vibeee, and seeing u cook indo vegan food will be pretty coool hehe

[@LWylie]

broccoli is an uncountable noun (e.g. rice, rain, and water), so the plural is the same as the singular.

[@iBeJuicenallday]

I only ask because I have to try both.

[@HannahMarieee]

ooh you cat is so cute😍 and loved the video☺️

[@bzztthundaa]

💗💗💗

[@iBeJuicenallday]

Have you tried the impossible whopper?

[@chhhhhris]

The more people eat vegan, the more the culture will _not_ change, but a new market of small businesses will emerge to compete with the meat monopoly industry. Production creates consumption. A meat industry monopoly will never be fully stamped out unless the state intervenes in the economy, changing the structural large-scale production on a rationally planned basis, for example through socialism.

[@davelewis8270]

Yes exactly.

[@anattynook]

hi chris, thanks for commenting! I do think there's a lot of assumptions with veganism in your comment to unpack. Perhaps you are referring more to the gentrification of vegan food, which I will agree is another neoliberal capitalist effort in getting consumers to mindlessly buy more. However, I am advocating for the choice we can exercise in eating no meat (which isn't the same as eating meat alternatives, or more expensive food branded as vegan), and encourage a more positive attitude towards embracing a plant-based diet in our own cultures and communities. I am hesitant about the all-or-nothing approach with regards to state planning, which can very well disregard the various ways communities can get healthy plant-based foods in the short-term. Sure, we would love to see more socialist food-related policies, but the culture has to shift with it too. I would want to believe that we would have more power in numbers than to believe in a zero-sum game between corporations and the state.

[@chhhhhris]

@@anattynook Still the greatest driving force of consumption, and culture is production. True, the masses are the driving force of social change in history, but not only in changing consumption habits. For example, the masses can achieve their fullest potential by helping facilitate an evolution in the process of production, primarily with help of the state, but only first under their own sovereign control.