There are a lot of hypotheses about obesity but I think personally the thing that really most informs me here is that if you put an open box of oreos in front of me I will have a really hard time not eating them regardless of how hungry I am or knowing that it’s bad for me.

— Misha Gurevich, Photographer, VC, Wives 0/1 (@drethelin) November 29, 2021

I don’t like Oreos* — they taste like fucking trash — but even if I did, open all you want in front of me. I will not eat them. I’m driving this fucking bus, buddy, and I decide where it’s going. And I like telling people no. Even including myself.

Not doing something is just incredibly easy for me.

*I do like Oreos in milkshakes. The cold suppresses the crap taste and then it’s more about texture and mouth feel.

My body resists veganism. What’s the most ethical alternative?

Well, of course it does. Humans can’t really survive long-term as vegans. We just aren’t physiologically capable of eating that sort of diet. Almost no vegan eats even close to as much protein as a human requires to function well — and you can tell just by looking at them. Most look near-death even when supposedly “healthy.” Their bodies just do not function correctly because of the missing protein and all the absent micro-nutrients you just cannot get from eating plants.

Veganism is a religious movement, like many lefty ideologies that are just neo-Puritanism dressed up in secular clothes.