Gabe BellWell that was predictable
9point6Their reasons will not be valid, I’m not going to even entertain reading them.
We make more food than we consume on this planet—in the absence of scarcity, food security is obviously a human right, it’s aggressively malignant to be against this.
Whilst we’re at it, shelter is a human right too, we have several times more empty houses than homeless people in most developed nations—that’s fucked.
Sadly excess food is not the worst of it, farm animals are.
Take a 7km cycle (drive if you must) ride out of town and all you’ll find is; grass, wheat, corn, soy: all meat for farm animals (depending on where you are)
Found the vegan
Nice try, but no I eat meat too (social meals, restaurants) but I strictly won’t cook it myself.
Vegans that throw out their leather belts I consider mentally questionable.
Reduce is the key. Vegans have a point, scientifically, but their absolutism is their biggest problem.
I dare you to add some frozen tofu to your bbq stakes once in a while.
miss phantVeganism is not even about absolutism, it’s about reducing animal cruelty to the extent possible and practical. Throwing out a leather belt you already own would not lead to any reduction in animal harm, I’d even call it an action that would go against veganism.
SpotI once met a caravan of “Roadkill” vegans. They would not eat anything animal related unless it was for sure going to go to waste. They had pamphlets on how to make sure if the meat was spoiled or not, processing guides on how to get the most use of animals, all kinds of info I found very surprising from what I had known of veganism.
grysbokMakes sense. I don’t order pork but if something comes with surprise bacon I’ll eat it–the pig is already dead. And I’ll be angry at Applebee’s for adding unlisted bacon to their macaroni and cheese. (Seriously, you have no vegetation options and when I try the “make a meal out of sides” trick you add betrayal bacon? I’m glad millennials are killing Applebee’s.)