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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I understand the philosophy of veganism, and it doesn't bother me that people practice it. I'm not even bothered by people telling me I should also be vegan.
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Once at the Manaus airport I met an Indian-American who was strictly vegan because of his religion, and I had to help him since he didn't speak Portuguese and some restaurant clerks didn't speak English. He didn't even try to push me into veganism, otherwise I'd be bothered. Well, a guy like that deserves more respect than the radical vegans who recently performed some virtue-signaling campaigns at a park where I usually go on Sundays to eat acarajé.
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Much of the world lives on a diet of rice and beans, which I suppose I could tolerate if I had to.
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Never heard of feijoada, usually prepared with pork? Well, many bean-based dishes actually have some sort of meat or other animal protein added to them, not just pork but also some cheap beef (in Brazil some people use some meats with the bone on them, while in Mexico it's more usual to add minced meat to the chilli con carne).
Just look at this acarajé (which by the way was delicious): a fried dough made out of black-eyed peas (in Brazil they're considered beans instead of peas) traditional in African cuisines which had been incorporated to the tradition of some Afro-Brazilian religions, and a typical street-food in Bahia. Dried shrimp is a traditional filling for acarajé.
