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.
Are veggies not massively subsidised too though? Also harvested and packed by grossly underpaid labourers?
Meat is subsidised twice because the animal feed is also subsidised.
I don’t know what that’s got to do with it, since fertiliser is subsidised too
So three times.
I think in a developed nation, “veganism” almost always connotes some amount of health consciousness, which can be expensive. Different, I imagine, in rice-and-lentils developing parts of the world.
AFAIK Oreos, sour patch kids, taco bell bean burritos, and
McD’s French friesare vegan…but they’re not associated with “vegan culture.”Edit: strike through fries
Quick correction: McD’s fries are vegan everywhere except the US. They use some sort of milk and “natural beef flavoring” in the breading here for some dumb ass reason. In Europe they’re vegan though.
I think that calling veganism privileged is a response to the more militant vegans who don’t realize that economic hardship and food scarcity can make their version of veganism unsustainable for some people.
You’re referring to outliers.
If you care about animals, you don’t move to a “desert” where you don’t have a supply of non-animal-based food. That’s the cost of trying to give a shit. You don’t get to be an opportunistic predator, you don’t practice it only when it’s convenient with your business/career plan.
For most people this isn’t even an issue, but carnists love to glom onto the exceptions as if most humans are living on a space station surrounded by asteroid cattle.
