Sorry, I didn't mean to leave you all upset for a month. And boy, do you ever appear to be upset at what was intended to be an innocuous comment. I wasn't trying to insult the farmer's intelligence. I was expressing that I wouldn't expect someone with such different interests in life to know anything about what veganism actually is. You have read in a lot to my text. You have some strong feelings. Which is not surprising. These are matters of life and death for billions of individuals a year.
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Just open TikTok! Now your problem is solved, as well as mine.
Neither of them really describe "a" diet. I don't consume alcohol. Is that a diet? You don't consume antifreeze, even though it tastes really really good. Is that a diet? "Not consuming animal products" is not a diet.
"Plant-based" is a characteristic of an infinite number of diets or other practices; those that exclude animal products. "Vegan" is a characteristic of a person; one that conducts themselves according to a specific moral perspective on interactions with animals. A diet is vegan iff (ie if and only if) there was a moral question in its practice. It describes the justification, and using it to talk about only the outcome is exactly what I am saying is incorrect.
I don't expect a dairy farmer to know better, but of course he means "plant-based", not "vegan". "Plant-based" is a functional description, while "vegan" is a set of moral values and their ethical consequences. The dairy farmer isn't saying that everyone has to renounce animal abuse. They are simply saying that it won't be economical to commit atrocity for money any longer.
pro gamers disagree.
Someone lied to you.
Biden: "I really think we might negotiate peace in Gaza."
One Day Later...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged in a scathing speech to Congress on Wednesday to achieve “total victory” against Hamas and denounced American opponents of the war in Gaza as “idiots,” ...
JFC. Why do you never listen to Bernie. He just wants to keep you from blowing your own fucking toes off.
I wish the devs would wake up and create a default easy mode sign-up for creating a web site. The web will never catch on with all this complicated stuff.
"Plant-based" is a term coined by the vegan community. It refers to a diet that (perhaps coincidentally, as in this case) is compatible with vegan values, though that's not the definition. It does not include eggs, milk, etc.