90377 Sedna

The idea that poor people can go vegan because plant-based options are cheaper (which is true), does not take into account those who are so much in poverty that they have to rely on soup kitchens and pantries. I get food delivered to my home once a week from a food pantry, there aren't many vegan options but the options that do exist could not sustain me for a week. This isn't a knock on veganism btw. I think people who can contribute less to factory farming should! But I think we also need to consider that poverty puts people at others whims. Yea I've been a poor vegetarian, and it is possible, I'm sure there are poor vegans who live on pantries too. Eating plant based is hard when most of the donations to food banks aren't plant based. Ya know what the pantry usually gives me? Mac and cheese! Eggs! And things I refuse to eat like chicken noodle soup.

If you want to do some direct action to make it easier for food-insecure people to eat vegan, Food Not Bombs is a group that makes and distributes vegan meals for unhoused people. Check if they have a chapter near you.

health isn't a virtue.

people still go around acting like they've done something good in order to be able bodied and healthy. that they worked for it, that it's due to their moral fibre or good upbringing or self control. they genuinely, on some level, believe that they are a good person solely based on the strength of their physical abilities. they will resist the fact that it is largely down to chance that they were able to maintain such health. whatever they think they've built from scratch, the building blocks were already handed to them. not because they're more worthy of it, just by luck. and they really think they're worth more based on that sheer luck. i've met disabled people worth a hundred of the healthiest ableds alive.

Ignoring luck is dumb, but claiming that health is entirely based on sheer luck is an extremely corrosive worldview. There are dozens of choices you make every day, every week, every month that contribute to your overall health and functioning. It's good to be healthy and it's good to make healthy choices and you do in fact have a lot of control over whether you are able bodied.

sounds like someone is mad you don't have a lot of control over whether you are able bodied