VEGAN UNDER POVERTY

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It’s a global social movement that benefits the entire animal kingdom, including humans. If you care about animals, the environment, food security, people in general, or pretty much anything else it just makes sense to be vegan and take power away from animal agriculture. It isn’t a fad that benefits rich white people. It’s a cross-culturally necessary form of activism.

People who get fake upset at vegans about the exploited migrant workers who picked *our* vegetables sure are in for a ride when they find out who killed their cheeseburger.

You guys are kidding yourselves if you think it’s only the right-wingers writing and spreading “fake news.” I’ve spent six years on this website advocating veganism and watching social justice advocates formulate and spread posts with 50k+ notes which are either unchecked, biased or just outright, blatant lies. Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug, and if you think you’re immune then you’re probably part of the problem.

becoming vegan because factory farming is unethical is like deciding that since walmart and amazon mistreat their employees you are now going to get everything you need out of dumpsters

Ah look, another popular post about veganism from someone who doesn’t appear to even know what vegans actually believe. Vegans don’t boycott animal products because we oppose factory farming, we do it because we oppose all animal exploitation and believe it to be fundamentally unethical. So to use your example, it would be more like boycotting amazon and Walmart so that you’re not actively funding the indusries you directly oppose. What an absolutely wild concept.

Becoming vegan because animal exploitation is unethical is like deciding that since Walmart and Amazon mistreat their employees, as do the vast majority of other employers, we should all be working to abolish this exploitative capitalist system.

Vegans aren’t trying to equate human oppression to animal oppression. Vegans aren’t trying to say that animals are better than humans. We’re just trying to point out that if you care about those who are disadvantaged, why don’t you consider extending that empathy towards animals? You don’t have to stop caring about humans. You can care about both.

We’re not supposed to judge poor people for getting the tiny amounts of joy they can out of life such as splurging on a $5 Starbucks coffee, and rightly so, but when I, a poor person, splurge on a $5 box of Gardein porkless pockets maybe once a month at the most suddenly it’s “Wow, veganism is so expensive. If you think poor people can be vegan you’re an asshole.”

Our society thinks poor people aren’t allowed to have comfort or ethics, and it’s wearing me the fuck down…

I would judge a poor person for spending five bucks on a Starbucks coffee, just as much as I would judge a poor person for spending $5 on vegan food.

IF. YOU. GO. AND. CAN’T. PAY. YOU’RE. STILL. THOUSANDS. IN. DEBT. THIS. IS. NOT. ACCESS.

This hospital in my city just threw out a homeless man

Absolutely this: “People who can’t afford treatment also can’t afford to protect their rights.”

“People who can’t afford treatment also can’t afford to protect their rights.”

let it sink in “People who can’t afford treatment also can’t afford to protect their rights.”

Can we also talk about how fucked up it is that the US makes you fund your own legal defense of your rights? Like, if you’re lucky and have the right type of case and win and the judge is kind, maybe they make the opposing party pay your legal bills. But to even begin defending your rights you need to pony up massive amounts of cash and that’s fucked up.

controversial topics should be stuff like “is cloning good” or “should we fuck aliens” and not whether people deserve to be poor or deserve healthcare