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Every leftist space I've been at IRL has either offered only vegan food or at least one or more vegan options because

1) it's more inclusive - vegetarians and non-vegans can eat it, too (excluding allergies etc. of course)

2) it's cheaper

3) it's FAR more environmentally friendly

Like??? You people want freedom for all, but not animals? You people want to abolish prisons, but not (factory) farming? You people yell "my body my choice", but that doesn't extend to animals? You love cats and dogs and frogs and lizards, bur eat cows and pigs and chickens?

Going vegan and advocating for the rights of animals is an act of protest against a corporate system that treats sentient beings as mere objects, commodities to be bought and sold as property. Animal agriculture industries breed animals into unhealthy bodies, exploit them for profit then slaughter them at a tiny fraction of their life expectancy. Most animals are killed when they’re little more than infants.

Adopting a based-based diet is the single biggest dietary change you can make to reduce your carbon footprint by up to 73%. Eating plant-based requires less land, less water, fewer crops and can be up to 1/3 cheaper. There is a broad scientific consensus that plant-based diets can be perfectly healthy, with organisations like the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the NHS in agreement. Those who still think that vegans cannot be healthy in 2025 are denying decades of nutritional research, and must find it hard to explain how committed vegan athletes are competing at the highest levels of sport.

Male calves killed

Dairy cows sent to slaughter once spent

Fiona Apple in a suit of armor in NYC, 1997

The reason I focused on electronic music specifically is because no one ever talks about it. The theft of rock n' roll is softened by celebrated legends such as Jimi Hendrix and Slash and Little Richard, and the visibility of the story in general. Hip-hop's story of capitalist exploitation of poor black men and enforcement of toxic standards of masculinity and white appropriation is softened by hip-hop made by black people being a culturally dominating force for the last 30+ years, and a concentrated effort by black artists to use the genre to platform black artists and issues first. Ska getting gentrified into ska punk is softened by ska punk sucking ass in comparison. Electronic music does not get the same redemption story.

Quick, without using Google, can you name a black electronic music artist? Do you know who Juan Atkins is? Phuture? Mr Fingers? When you think of acid, do you think of black people in the clubs of Chicago or white english people at raves in London? When you think of jungle, do you think about the African and Carribean diaspora in the United Kingdom drawing on dub and dancehall tradition to make some of the most futuristic sounding music in history, or do you think of white people recycling the same beats over and over again set to PS1-style cover art?

House music, the closest living relative to disco, which was a black genre of music MURDERED by reactionary white rock music fans, is more associated with two fucking white dudes from France than ANY black person in the minds of most people.

Do you know the name of the man who played the Amen break?

1. Both are bad for the environment. Leather isn’t better just because it comes from a renewable source. Cows emit methane, take up valuable land, and the tanning process emits harmful chemicals into ecosystems.

2. Vegan leather wasn’t designed for vegans. It’s designed for people who can’t afford real leather and don’t want to smell like shit when it rains. It’s just given a bougie name for marketing purposes.

3. Literally most synthetic fabrics are plastic, but some of y’all fixate on pleather but have no problem with polyester being used instead of cotton for whatever reason.

4. Leather is not a by product of meat production. Cattle are raised specifically for leather and go through an enormous amount of suffering in the leather industry.