I'm mentally exhausted. I just don't have the energy to investigate the provenance of every supply chain input that made everything I buy. I can do the simple stuff like giving up meat and fish and dairy, and I mostly already have. But that's about all I can handle right now in my life.
That seems to be how it is for a lot of people, including myself. Perfect Veganism is borderline impossible under capitalism, and I am no "perfect" vegan (if such a thing is even possible). I think that even with eliminating animal products in food consumption is the most important step, and it's one that many people don't take, so it's great that you are working on being able to do that. It gets harder once things like exploitation of workers come into play, and it's generally much harder (if even possible) to avoid. Luckily (and hopefully), the only contradiction that would be posed in post-capitalist society is the consumption of animal products in food (and possibly in things like clothing), and those are the easiest things to adopt personally, and suffer more from cultural boundaries than those presented by capitalism.
I'm mentally exhausted. I just don't have the energy to investigate the provenance of every supply chain input that made everything I buy. I can do the simple stuff like giving up meat and fish and dairy, and I mostly already have. But that's about all I can handle right now in my life.
That seems to be how it is for a lot of people, including myself. Perfect Veganism is borderline impossible under capitalism, and I am no "perfect" vegan (if such a thing is even possible). I think that even with eliminating animal products in food consumption is the most important step, and it's one that many people don't take, so it's great that you are working on being able to do that. It gets harder once things like exploitation of workers come into play, and it's generally much harder (if even possible) to avoid. Luckily (and hopefully), the only contradiction that would be posed in post-capitalist society is the consumption of animal products in food (and possibly in things like clothing), and those are the easiest things to adopt personally, and suffer more from cultural boundaries than those presented by capitalism.
This is really common.
It doesn't have to be all or nothing, you're doing great.