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Yep. I’m cool with vegans. I don’t agree with their choice. It is not for me. Neither in terms of ideals nor in terms of ability. I just don’t like those specific few who are really ignorant and about reality.

I feel about vegans the same way I feel about everyone else. My choice may not be your choice, but we’re cool as long as you’re not being a judgemental shithead. And if you defend your choice to be a judgemental shithead as being the moral highground… then we’re definitely not cool lol

Like I said. Most vegans are awesome people - a least the ones I know. There are just the few who give the rest a bad name. Those were the ones I ranted about. Something that seems to have gone over the heads of a surprising number of people.

Re-blogging in agreement.

It’s really frustrating to see how people completely bypass how race, ability, class and gender (feminisation of poverty, anyone?) feed into one’s ability to become vegan. And while I understand the “I want everyone to be completely healthy,” health and consumption are not zero-sum. It’s not “either you’re vegan or you aren’t and don’t want to.” Consumption carries the weight of intersectionality so that, really, the debate around veganism is just a symptom of the ultimate societal disease. I’ve been a vegetarian all my life, but at least I KNOW it’s because of my class level that I was exposed to and can afford organic and meat-free living.

I’ll stop before I start ranting. I feel that this post surrounding that McDonalds controversy has already done that job for me.

When you are vegetarian or vegan you notice how meat-centric things are in daily life. Every chef that has a show on TV is a meat-eater. Most restaurants do not offer a vegan option, and often have a very shit vegetarian option. Most TV characters are meat eaters, vegetarian characters are portrayed as complete arseholes or harmless whackos. Vegetarians’ views are often not even aired in debates about health. Supermarkets regularly discontinue vegetarian lines or add unnecessary animal products to otherwise vegetarian or vegan products (e.g. Dark Chocolate, Tomato Ketchup, Vegetable stock, Pastry, Sweets, Cheese) forcing vegetarians/vegans to buy more expensive alternatives.

In Europe, tax subsidies are paid to meat producing companies to compensate for waste and to pay for marketing because the meat industry actually runs at a loss. (they have reduced these subsidies recently, which is good)

Vegetables are cheaper to produce than meat. 20 vegetarians can live off the land required by one meat eater.

I’m not telling you these things to make you go vegan, I’m not telling you to make you feel bad, the system is fucked up and it’s not your fault. Just like it’s not vegetarian or vegan people’s fault that our economy favours meat eaters and hikes up the price of fresh vegetables. We should be angry, furious in fact, about a system that makes it so difficult to eat well, or to do the thing we believe in. And if you don’t believe in it then fine, so please don’t get angry at a couple of passionate vegans, get angry at the dominant ideology that is forcing meat and dairy down your throat every chance it gets, with the backing of corporations and the government, not just a facebook account and a keyboard.

Every year in the UK we feed our livestock enough food to feed 250,000,000 people while in the world 30,000,000 people die of starvation