We have to do it. Some of us have to do it in different ways. Doing small things where you can is all well and good but literally none of us are making a single impact in capitalism by making different choices about how we're forced to participate in it. Focus on tearing it down together rather than picking apart individual choices because those individual choices still result in participating in capitalism.

    • rozako [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Never said I wasn’t vegan. ‘Carnis’ is (and i hate saying this word) such a cringe thing to say.

      • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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        4 years ago

        putting animal bodies that have been semi-tortured to death in your mouth when you don't have to is even cringier! And it and causes diseases :)

    • save_vs_death [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      The same polls shows that only 3% of hispanic folks are vegetarian, indeed, famously known for being rich and therefore not vegan.

      • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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        4 years ago

        Are... are you trying to manufacture an opppression olypics over whether hispanics or black people are poorer in amerikkka because black people are more vegan??

        https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/09/poverty-rates-for-blacks-and-hispanics-reached-historic-lows-in-2019.html

        Poverty is higher in black communities.... but i don't know why you would even make a comment like that. Once again, please do research.

        • save_vs_death [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          I'm not trying to manufacture anything. You're saying that poorer people are more likely to be vegan cause it's cheaper to do so. I'm offering a counter example of a cohort of people that are also poor but somehow don't know that vegan food is cheaper, so much so they're just as likely to be vegan as white people which are doing pretty well.

    • Wrecker [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      But socioeconomic factors like poverty, living far from a greengrocer and easy access to fast food have made it harder for African Americans to eat healthily, according to the Food Empowerment Project, a non-profit aimed at ending food inequality.

      it's great that's there seems to be a higher willingness to make that switch but please let's not pretend that there aren't economic barriers for people to actually be able to make that switch and keep at it

      • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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        4 years ago

        it's interesting that black people who are faced with more of these struggles still manage to be more vegan by population than white people who commonly have less of these barriers, isn't it?

        And this forum is mostly white.. hmm

        • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          Well something I think is important to keep in mind is that the areas containing a lot of the poor whites have Dollar General (or similar stores) as their main grocer. "Food Deserts" are a rapidly accelerating crisis in middle America. Not to say your critique is necessarily incorrect, just that these are very complex issues with a lot of facets to include in our analysis.