How easy would it be to be vegan/vegetarian in your country , based on culture , habbits, market etc ?
I’m neither, but the other day I was eating and I was like ” man, this place would be hell for a vegetarian ” .
I’ll start with Romania : really difficult
Meat is very important to us : Chicken, pork , turkey, beef, lamb , we really like eating meat , it’s the center of many traditional dishes .
Sure there’s been an influx of vegan and vegetarian themed restaurants and food products over the years, but most people, especially outside the big cities, still eat a lot of meat generally.
Other than the major holiday fasts where the markets roll out some special products, there’s generally few and quite expensive options , the packed foodstuff generally doesn’t sell too much, and other than some “uptown hipsters” I don’t know a lot of people that buy them .
It’s like hey you want to go buy bread or a pretzel ? It’s not like there’s a label stating if eggs (and what kind) or lard have been used .
I myself occasionally eat tofu, everyone else shudders at the idea, especially those that are some before , they shudder like children offered spinach .
And of course most places don’t really mind separating the ingredients and dishes by much , odds are that “vegan bun” was frozen and fried right next to a meat one (well, as much real meat as it really contains lol ) .