So earlier today, in a thread about why it's great that Eleven Madison Park is going plant-based, I said being vegan comes at a cost in the food you eat.

That made some people I like mad, but I think it's important, and I want to defend it.

So: 🧵 https://t.co/3GAxVE1s30

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) May 3, 2021

I would honestly rather die than be vegetarian and especially vegan. I don’t have a lot of emotional attachment to food, but I would be miserable all the time without meat, and unhealthy, and it’s not a life I’d want to live.