/c/food is basically /c/veganfood at this point, and is all but being moderated as such with meat posts requiring NSFW tags* and pinned threads pushing veganism. /c/omnivore (or something along those lines) would be an explicitly non-vegan food community so there just doesn't have to be interaction between vegans and non-vegans wrt food posts.

* Despite members of the community expressing multiple times that we didn't want that. And the thread announcing it was locked immediately.

Sorry this borders on /c/strugglesession, but this is still the right comm for this. We shouldn't struggle session about the merits of veganism here; just discuss whether there should be an explicitly omnivore community.

  • asaharyev [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Do you drink coffee or eat almonds? The production of coffee is violence, and only enforced through violence.

    Do you like bananas? The production of bananas greatly weakens the global ecosystem due to monocropping, to the point of risking crop failure and potentially localized ecological collapse...

      • asaharyev [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I'm vegetarian, but I can still understand that the violence against workers who harvest the food we eat is at least as important as the violence done to vegans because they accidentally saw a chicken breast on /c/food.

    • Septbear [love/loves]
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      4 years ago

      Nope I have cut out all petite bourgiousie luxuries that were only made available through colonisation. No chocolate, no tea, no cashews, no coconut. I do use sugar but it's from beets grown in my country. I do not think my personal choice has any effect but I got to live authentically to my beliefs.

      • asaharyev [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        No corn, no tomatoes, no peppers....those are all New World crops, and if you eat them you are engaging in colonialism. So I hope you hold true to that, too.

        • Septbear [love/loves]
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          4 years ago

          There is a difference between crops that were brought back and made into staples 400 years before I was born and buying crops from countries that are exploited and causing ecological damage currently.

      • JayTwo [any]
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        4 years ago

        You mean you don't pocket mulch?

    • questionasker [any]
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      4 years ago

      I don't care much about this drama but this argument is incredibly frustrating for me to read. Yes, all consumption is unethical and is tied to exploitation in a capitalist system, though with this line of reasoning why try improving anything at all?