You're just a coward larping left while you intentionally and happily advocate for and support the exploitation of sentient beings for your sensory pleasure.
Stop pretending to be a leftist if your empathy ends with humans.
You're just a coward larping left while you intentionally and happily advocate for and support the exploitation of sentient beings for your sensory pleasure.
Stop pretending to be a leftist if your empathy ends with humans.
To deny the large role that food plays in our lives and that it is usually the biggest stumbling block people have with adopting veganism is disingenuous and only makes it harder for those of us trying to promote veganism.
100% disagree. Veganism is about animal liberation, while that applies to what we eat and do, if you only care about not exploiting animals if you have sensory pleasure you don't care about animals as much as you claim.
I have no idea how you're reading any of that into what I said. I have agreed multiple times that veganism is indeed about animal liberation, but that denying the massive role that food (and hence factory farming) plays in any liberation effort and calling other users "weird" for suggesting vegan recipe posting is just ridiculous. I can't help but suspect it's just contrarianism or something at this point so I am disengaging.
I don't think they are denying the importance of food. They are just saying the point of veganism has never been about food, it's always been about animal liberation. No vegan is trying to convince you to vegan because the food is good (it is!), that is basically just a byproduct. Also I'm happy to share recipes whenever because I enjoy cooking anyway.
If that's the case, I fully agree. As I said in an above comment, veganism is definitely about more than food. To respond to that with "it's not about food." carries the implication that food has almost nothing to do with it when that's just objectively false.
Veganism is first and foremost about animal liberation. But to tell someone they're "weird" for suggesting regular vegan recipe posts "because it's not about food" is unhelpful at best. Imo, it's that sort of dismissive attitude that is weird. Hopefully that clears things up.
You are plantbased, because you are vegan - you go plantbased in solidarity with animals.
You are not vegan because you are plantbased.
Anything that contributes to or upholds or doesn't subvert the common paradigm that "plantbased = vegan" is problematic.
Veganism is first and foremost an animal rights movement that requires continuous acts of solidarity and activism, and carnists and lib 'vegans' like to forget that for self-interest like convenience and clout.
Sure, share recipes. But it shouldn't be first on a vegan's priorities. Sharing recipes isn't activism and cannot be the only thing that we do, nor the first thing that comes to mind.
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