It’s frustrating because as far as I have seen there is functionally no evidence to back up this cultural protein obsession we all have. Besides the inflammation, besides the cancer, besides the accompanying heart disease due to cholesterol, what is animal protein even good for?

‘Is it somehow a necessary nutrient for us?’ BZZZZT. Wrong. Dietary protein deficiency doesn’t exist (the only possible paths to deficiency are leaky gut or malnutrition). Possibly the only reason to eat excess protein is if you’re recovering from an injury, or something. The best way I can explain this is to that ignorant line of ‘We nEeD PrOtEiN To bUiLd oUr mUsClEs,’ your muscles have already been built and they largely don’t need to be built twice, you do not need nearly as much protein as you think you do.

‘Okay, but eggs are good for baking.’ Can’t you try, like, anything else? I get that people like using eggs over egg alternatives due to some obsession with living a default life where you only make default choices something about taste or whatever, but can’t y’all just try alternatives like once? Applesauce, chickpea water, flax, chia, etc, there are too many alternatives for you to try one and lump them all together like ‘oh but I tried flax but it tasted sorta off so I guess I have no options but to clog my arteries and send baby chicks to a meat grinder’

I was serious about the “default choice” thing. It’s as if some people have a pathological need to live the most ‘normal’ life possible. It permeates every aspect of our society, from people worrying they haven’t gotten worried yet to kids searching up the average age for a 1st kiss to discrimination against the LGBT to psych medication noncompliance to people in hard circumstances holding the worldview that everyone is struggling just like them, all because otherwise they’re the weird ones, and being weird or unnatural is bad and icky, but being normal and doing what everyone else does is good and happy

It’s just- so damn infantile.