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Welcome
Welcome to c/[email protected]. Broadly, this community is a place to discuss veganism. Discussion on intersectional topics related to the animal rights movement are also encouraged.
What is Veganism?
'Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals ...'
— abridged definition from The Vegan Society
Rules
The rules are subject to change, especially upon community feedback.
- Discrimination is not tolerated. This includes speciesism.
- Topics not relating to veganism are subject to removal.
- Posts are to be as accessible as practicable:
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- paywalled articles must have an accessible non-paywalled link;
- use the original source whenever possible for a news article.
- Content warnings are required for triggering content.
- Bad-faith carnist rhetoric & anti-veganism are not allowed, as this is not a space to debate the merits of veganism. Anyone is welcome here, however, and so good-faith efforts to ask questions about veganism may be given their own weekly stickied post in the future.
- before jumping into the community, we encourage you to read examples of common fallacies here.
- if you're asking questions about veganism, be mindful that the person on the other end is trying to be helpful by answering you and treat them with at least as much respect as they give you.
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Resources on Veganism
A compilation of many vegan resources/sites in a Google spreadsheet:
Here are some documentaries that are recommended to watch if planning to or have recently become vegan:
- You Will Never Look at Your Life in the Same Way Again
- Dominion (2018) (CW: gore, animal abuse)
Vegan Fediverse
Lemmy:
Mastodon:
Other Vegan Communities
General Vegan Comms
Circlejerk Comms
Vegan Food / Cooking
Debate a Vegan
Attribution
- Banner image credit: Jean Weber of INRA on Wikimedia Commons
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No, you're vegetarian. You have no right to call yourself vegan unless you completely abstain from all animal products for ethics that includes honey. You're not going to end up on the hypothetical island with not much to eat.
Because they want to have vegan alternatives available for every food so we do not lose culture or taste. I want to see all the traditionally meat dishes from Nunavut made with plant-based ingredients.
Not all processed foods are created equally as some can use clean ingredients like Torfurky. There was a lot of fear mongering about vegan alternatives being less healthy in the mainstream media as they have conflict of interest with animal agriculture. It actually turns out that vegan alternatives are often healthier.
I mean, I eat lettuce and beans and tortillas every other day. I'm surviving pretty good. Add some oatmeal in the morning and oat milk at night. Oat milk is basically processed food too but I mean it can be done just blending it .... chrome on the blades of the blender. But it looks traditional to me. I've been eating beans most of my life. I got no need for some thing made of beans that tastes weird so it can remind me of meat. However, lol like oat milk, maybe the fake chicken and beef should just have a different name. I like for example the fake chicken nuggets but I thought the whole Vegan thing was about not murdering the little bastards. Why not call it plant nuggets? Like walk away from the entire murder thing and come up with alternatives. Like when I see a lemon 🍋, I know what it tastes like. If I see a fake lemon and doesn't taste like lemon, then it sucks. But there's a ton of different citrus that are not lemon which are called totally differently than people like them... Mandarin, calamanci, orange, grape fruit, etc. each has their flavour. So chicken, beef, tofu, protein bar?
Because more people need to know what the alternative is mimicking giving it weird names like faux meat reduces the amount of meat eaters who try them out thus slowing down the reduction of animal suffering.
Here’s a counter argument why aren’t Easter eggs called faux Easter eggs? When they don’t contain eggs.