Excellent bait - but does it serve the vegan cause?
Judging from the responses in the comments, probably not.
It's a good post if you want to feel good about yourself though I guess?
Excellent bait - but does it serve the vegan cause?
Judging from the responses in the comments, probably not.
It's a good post if you want to feel good about yourself though I guess?
Notable case of Goomba fallacy.

There surely are fire breathing anti capitalist types who have some personal animosity against vegans but it seems likely these are not always the same people.
Yes, clearly leftism is the complete and total enemy of vegans and vegetarians. Surely conservative and liberals will be the true allies. Stunning argument.
I find leftist political events very isolating since rejecting carnism. It's hard to take people talking about fairness and humanitarianism seriously when they still have the flesh of vulnerable individuals stuck between their teeth. The whole time I'm there, that's all I'm thinking. But you know it's not going to be received well if you say anything...
Meanwhile “aggressive” vegan messaging just describes things for what they are, even downplaying them, because there is no way to describe the horrors in words
Vegan, speaking gently and matter-of-factly: “Using animal’s bodies for producing consumable goods involves rape, imprisonment, torture and murder. Leftists are anti-exploitation and anti-capitalist, and using living bodies for profit entails that.”
Leftist, yelling in response: “StoP foRciNG yOUr beLiEfs On mE, vegan, veGaNisM iS a bouRgEOIs phIlOsopHy!”
And I thought vegans are normally considered to be part of the woke left, at least by every outsider...
Hence the paradox of veganism, according to the right it's a woke leftist thing. That is until you hang out with woke leftists and they are like 'yeah, no we don't support veganism'.
If there is one thing lemme has taught me is that there are a lot of prominent leftist vegans, but leftists in general do not support veganism, but very often are openly anti-vegan.
That's crazy, I've experienced the complete opposite. All the leftists I know either are vegetarian or vegan or are supportive and accepting towards it.
Im gonna go out on a limb here and say that these two statements are not coming out of the same people, and that "the left" is being employed here as a uselessly broad umbrella term including both actual leftists and liberals, as usual
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