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.
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.
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.