Vegans & meat grown in a lab

[Fake Messiah]

I also have trouble absorbing plant-based iron so I NEED to eat iron-rich meats every so often. I try to only buy meat that has been pasture raised and humanely cared for, but if this were to become an affordable option, I would gladly make the switch.

That's how it usually is with all people so that's why one of the best sources of iron for vegans/ vegetarians is food fried in an iron pan - like eggs.

Also if we're quoting books, like Jörmungandr, then here is something that Penn Jillette wrote in his book about his life change and weight loss and mistakes about the food he made

When we took our first bite of corn, there was no weeping or giggling; there were belly laughs. It was shocking. It was nothing like any corn I’d ever tasted. It was sweet like candy. It was red-glossy-cracking-candy-apple-coating-at-the-fair sweet. It was maple-sugar-on-snow-in-New-England-with-my-sister sweet. It was baked-Alaska-and-sugar-straight-out-of-the-packet-at-a-diner-as-a-child sweet. And it wasn’t just sweet, either. Those ears of corn had so many flavors. Those ears of corn were sweet like life. [...] Two weeks of potatoes had knocked us out of our heads. We were out of our fucking crazy food-is-fat-sugar-salt dream world. Corn used to have no flavor at all for me. It was just fat and salt, because I’d always covered it in butter and salt. Corn tasted just like popcorn, and popcorn tasted just like lobster, and steak, and every other salty, fatty food, which was every food I ate.
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Corn is crazy sweet on its own, as long as you haven’t spent years beating your senses of taste, smell, and hunger with fat, sugar, and salt. We were ready to taste food in a whole new way.
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All my tastes changed after those two weeks of potatoes. Foods that I used to not like or have much of an opinion about became my favorites. Every kind of mushroom had a different flavor, and each individual mushroom had slight differences. One batch of Brussels sprouts tasted different from another from the same store. Fruit had variety among species and individuals.
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L.A. has the only vegan restaurant I’ve found where I can eat. It’s called Real Food Daily. I’ll write later about why I hate vegan restaurants—and a lot of stuff on RFD’s menu falls under that rubric—but they’ve got one thing that’s perfect: the “Real Food Meal.” It’s brown rice, beans, daily greens, land and sea vegetables, pressed salad, and a choice of one dressing or sauce. I get a little bit of peanut sauce on the side and eat just a couple of drops. This is a big bowl of food. Just a huge bowl. And when I was there I had two of them. I had two huge bowls of food. It’s just so good and so filling. I didn’t use the peanut sauce, but I sprinkled some Tabasco over eveything. I was very happy with my two bowls of food, and when I ended up back in Vegas, my scale agreed, too.