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Welcome to c/[email protected]. Broadly, this community is a place to discuss veganism. Discussion on intersectional topics related to the animal rights movement are also encouraged.
'Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals ...'
- abridged definition from The Vegan Society
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A compilation of many vegan resources/sites in a google spreadsheet:
Here are some documentaries that are recommended to watch if planning to or have recently become vegan:
Lemmy: vegantheoryclub.org
Mastodon: veganism.social
People love to call veganism ‘privileged,’ while conveniently ignoring the fact that the only reason animal products are even close to being accessible for the average consumer is because they’re factory farmed, slaughtered and packed by grossly underpaid labourers working in dangerous conditions, and then massively subsidised by all of our taxes.
There's a reggae album out of Jamaica by Romain Virgo with a song called "I'm doin good"
In that song is the line, "may not be able to buy what vegetarians cook but I'm doin good"
The album is from 2010. The first time I heard that song was my first realization that vegetarianism can be difficult as I'd recently been to Jamaica, and they do love them some vegetarianism. It hadn't occurred to me that maybe some of them wanted to be vegetarian but weren't able.
This shit is insane. While it's not just overall more expensive to be vegan. But some vegan substitutes are expensive as hell, while the carnivor alternative is super cheap because substitution is a joke. There is a local little factory that makes oat milk. Great, right? No long routes, and no gross tiddy milk. One liter is 4 bucks, while random milk is like 1 buck. There is a dry meat alternative that is made of smoked beets, it's pretty much twice as expensive as just dry meat. It's a clown world.
Crazy how people wanting to live in luxury has brought down the prices of all these products once deemed too expensive. Vanilla was only for the rich and now it's in every cheap product. It became so normal that the word "vanilla" is now synonymous with "normal" or "basic".
You have a local factory that makes oat milk? Do you live in sweeden?
I also recommend What Me Eat by Macka B
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FLqjLn0W5K0