This post is not an endorsement of incremental change but to serve as a visual guide on how far away certain individuals are from embracing the final conclusion of veganism.

Definitions:

  1. Cannibal: a human being or an animal that eats their own kind

  2. Carnivore: an animal that feeds primarily or exclusively on flesh

  3. Meat Eater: The standard diet that includes flesh

  4. Flexitarian: One whose diet includes a low amount of flesh

  5. Pollotarian: One whose diet includes fowl but no other flesh

  6. Pescatarian: One whose diet includes fish but no other flesh

  7. Entotarian: One whose diet includes insects but no other flesh

  8. Ostretarian: One whose diet includes oyster but no other flesh

  9. Lacto-Ovo-Vegetarian: a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products, eggs, vegetables, fruits, grains, and nuts

  10. Ovo-Vegetarian: a vegetarian whose diet includes eggs, vegetables, fruits, grains, and nuts

  11. Lacto-Vegetarian: a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products, vegetables, fruits, grains, and nuts

  12. Plant-Based: a strict vegetarian who consumes no food that comes from animals for health or environmental reasons

  13. Vegan: a strict vegetarian who consumes no food that comes from animals for ethical reasons

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    25 days ago

    Religion and spirituality are ethical reasons. Taste, bad taste, and price are not reasons why anyone would actually go vegan - veganism would call for turning down a free meal regardless of how well prepared it might be. "Dislike" of industrial production of animal products or in general, would obviously be rooted in ethical, health, or environmental concerns. If you only avoid meat and animal products on the basis that it decays more quickly or attracts flies, then you should have no objection to eating meat that is fresh, unless you are concerned about health risks. If you are vegan because you want to set an example to kids on how to eat healthy, then you are doing it for health reasons. If you are vegan because your parents tell you that veganism is good and you believe them, or because your parents tell you that it is bad and you reject that, then those are both ethical beliefs. If you are vegan out of spite towards meat eaters for making bad arguments, then it stands to reason that you think vegans make a better case.

    So all of your arguments are invalid. Which you would already understand if you had read even the first line of Wikipedia about veganism:

    Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products—particularly in diet—and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals.

    But thank you so much for coming here to grace us with your very educated and informed perspective.