• rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    The vegan society in the 40s, originally the vegetarian society, made the term to specifically get around the issue of people conflating being vegetarian for other things. Much easier to say vegan than ovolacto-vegetarian.

    Please just use the term plant based if you don’t value ethics.

    • Magnum, P.I.@infosec.pub
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      2 months ago

      You mean not fucking up the planet is not caring about ethics? You can call whatever you are doing plant based. Vegan is the rejection of animal products, if you do that because you are a lunatic or whatever is your thing I guess.

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      2 months ago

      Well, times change and so does what words mean. Vegetarianism and veganism used to be somewhat radical philosophies, but nowadays, at least to me, they are normalised eating habits. I know all kinds of people who are vegetarian or vegan, with reasons ranging from health concerns to just not liking the taste of meat.

      And in any case, I think gatekeeping veganism this way does no good at all.