I don't know who needs to hear this but if an item at ALDI (UK) says vegetarian or nothing on the packaging check groceries.aldi.co.uk it often says "vegan,vegetarian" under the lifestyle section of the product listing, beats me why they have no issue printing "vegetarian" on products but "vegan" no thats too far even though it would be a more accurate label

Just added these sources about paper sizing to the post https://www.perfectpapercompany.co.uk/blogs/news/vegan-papers Surface sizing solutions consist of mainly modified starches and sometimes other hydrocolloids, such as gelatine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sizing

I'm sorry you saw that stuff on the matrix its not what I stand for

But we are all individually part of a boycott and thats why Michelin tyres exist, if all vegans ignored Michelin tyres and got whatever other tyres then they would probably stop making them, on the contrary if vegans as a bloc only bought Michelin tyres then that would be a strong market signal that Michelin has done a good thing and that other manufacturers should follow

Isn't this just completely ignoring supply and demand, what about the animal slaughter rates in Germany where there's loads of vegans. I bet it's easier to find weird vegan things there like a vegan book binder. I agree that the cultural effect exists that youre talking about thats why I think for example if you have preowned leather products you should replace them as soon as possible to avoid the signalling effect that leather is acceptable. I also think that emailing companies about this is not symbolic as it shows there is a demand, like think about michelin recently saying theyre going to make vegan tyres that was the result of market research, and now theres like an exponential knock on effect where we can say to vegans hey only buy these michelin tyres and before you know it all tyres will be vegan by default

Thank you very much I hope to raise awareness and put more pressure on companies

Isn't buying vegan things a type of action though, otherwise whats the point of veganism as a boycott at all, we know that boycotting animal products has got us this far why not take it as far as practicible

Thank you, I'm not sure if its every Micheliln tyre but they certainly released at least one vegan tyre product youll have to double check!

Yeah I put this at the end notes of the post :) I get them too from uk they ship to a few countries

I would love if you pinned this post!

To me this sounds like "Buy that leather jacket if it makes you happy" its just a difference of how much animal flesh is in the product and I'm so sick of doing consequentialist maths to make up for societies psychopathic treatment of animals

No social justice movement has ever been successful by appealing to the sensibilities of the oppressor, I fully support confronting animal abusers to change their behaviour, it worked on me and it worked on the 8 people I've directly helped go vegan, I'm 4y vegan btw

oh I completely missed the end of the sentence you were talking about buying a hairbrush im so dumb

Conversion rate for what kind of prices?

Thank you, I have seen there is little information collated about vegan instruments, this could be one of the only sources on the english internet for this

Could you include proof? if theyre email screenshots or too much for a lemmy post maybe you could link to a file hosting site and host a zip?

ah alright I'll have a look, I just hope the information from yourself and others doesnt become too disorganised and hard to find

Thank you, if you could edit the comments to include your source that would be really helpful for ppl, otherwise see my longer response :)

what would you suggest as an open source tool for that, I would like to try and work something out on simplex because theyre one of only 2 open source social media sites I know of to have post quantum encryption which if you didnt know quantum computers can provably break most encryption its just a matter of time before they have enough qubits, but due to the method called harvest now decrypt later corpos and govts are hoovering up encrypted data en masse thinking "itll be super cheap to decrypt all this before we know it" and then they can use AI systems to filter through it all and build personalised surveillance profiles like they already do, except it will be on data people thought was private forever

I'm really happy for you could you post a source for the fender guitars being vegan, fediverse content shwos up in web search results so youd make it more accessible, maybe we can start a thread listing all known vegan instruments