for most subsistence farmers beans and rice are too expensive to get your daily caloric needs. in the poor villages I've visited here you're probably looking at a dollar for about 2 pounds of beans or rice, and that is assuming there's no logistic issues or fleecing going on raising prices, which is way too much alone for someone who is making roughly a dollar a day or less. Even people who work salaried jobs aren't gonna be spending the extra cost to go vegan when they're paycheck to paycheck. Its absolutely vital to cook your food in lard or other animal fat, making refried beans or whatever else, since the caloric count per dollar is just so much better. Even then most of the subsistence farmers you see are chronically malnourished to a large degree.
Obviously it varies from place to place, but don’t a lot of people’s diets in the global south consist of vegetables and rice and beans and stuff?
for most subsistence farmers beans and rice are too expensive to get your daily caloric needs. in the poor villages I've visited here you're probably looking at a dollar for about 2 pounds of beans or rice, and that is assuming there's no logistic issues or fleecing going on raising prices, which is way too much alone for someone who is making roughly a dollar a day or less. Even people who work salaried jobs aren't gonna be spending the extra cost to go vegan when they're paycheck to paycheck. Its absolutely vital to cook your food in lard or other animal fat, making refried beans or whatever else, since the caloric count per dollar is just so much better. Even then most of the subsistence farmers you see are chronically malnourished to a large degree.