#if everybody was vegan

[avo-kat]

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[zuckarr]

If I had a penny for every time a non-vegan gave me unsolicited nutritional advice...

[elbiotipo]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending stupid tech corporations here (as if), there are plenty of bad practices in the tech industry. Data servers and the production of hardware are major energy consumers that drive up greenhouse emissions. But so are most industries.

My point is about putting the blame of climate change in the individual citizen. My point is that you can't measure CO2 emissions in "smartphone charges". You need to have perspective.

This is a pie chart from 2016* on greenhouse emissions per sector. Notice that, in no way, things such like web hosting manage to break even a 1%. I would especulate these fall under "Commercial". And those emissions are not from the industry itself but from its energy source. 70%~ of ALL greenhouse gases come from energy production. THIS is the heaviest thing to tackle.

Everything else is good too, sustainable servers, recycling, I'm all for it. My point, again, is that making consumers choose between I don't fucking know, twitter or tumblr is completely pointless. To have a better tech industry you need to ask for well enforced regulations that cover all of them. To fight climate change, you need to tackle all the above. This is not the work of a single individual but the work of organized millitancy, scientific research and state regulation with millions of people involved.

*yes, it is a little obsolete, I would appreciate newer graphs

[veganmabelpines]

Not being vegan isn't some "controversial opinion" that's literally the status quo come on.

[paging-possum]

Celiac is weird because it’s technically a disability but also it doesn’t *really* impact my life so I feel weird calling it a disability but also that’s only because it has influenced my life so drastically from such a young age that I literally cannot remember what life is like not having celiac but I have it easier than other people so really it’s not a big deal but have I experienced discrimination or unfair treatment for it?? Yeah like. Regularly. But maybe it’s not harming my life and that’s not ableism that’s just people not being able to accommodate my *checks notes* autoimmune disorder that severely restricts what I can eat at risk of severe illness ergo impairing my ability to interact and live in the world

[notbecauseofvictories]

getting ready to leave a job and intensely regretful that I can't bring the team with me or express my feelings in any articulate way: I am....going to bake you guys so many treats.

[kirinda-ondo]

I miss cheese, man

Most vegan cheeses are NOT doing it 😭

Unless it's chao creamery original, which melts fairly nice and is actually pretty decent on burgers and makes for a good grilled "cheese" if you don't care about cheese pulls, but it is not a substitute for everything, I have tried 😔

There are other flavors and types under this brand but I don't know if they're any good because they aren't anywhere near me and I do not have the money to order them online.

I do know in my heart though that I am officially over vegan mozzarella, regardless of brand, because it's just not good and doesn't even taste like mozzarella, more like two kids in a trench coat pretending to be mozzarella. It's like too rich and sour, and if I attempt dairy-free pizza again in the future, it will probably be without cheese substitutes entirely, even though I still think that's a sad state of affairs. And my frustration about it is not helped by the fact that YouTube keeps bombarding me with pizza commercials 😭

I also just really fucking miss queso, there aren't any good like nice goopy fake cheeses that aren't like similarly too rich and sour. It's a sad state of affairs overall in the world of adult onset dairy allergies. If not for chao creamery original, I would have become the joker long ago I think

[heich0e]

me watching most vegans talk about veganism:

me watching most non-vegans talk about veganism:

[m00ngbin]

I spent FOUR HOURS today baking and writing friend Valentines for people and they are going to like them or so help me god I will break down sobbing

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

If anti-vegan radfems have taught me anything, it's that they're not as against choice activism as they sometimes pretend to be.

[avo-kat]

its too hot. everybody go home. work is cancelled. capitalism is cancelled. it didnt work out. well try something different tomorrow.

[falinscloaca]

my sympathy for vegans getting a flood of “DEBATE MEEEE” comments versus my frustration that their explanations and reasoning for vegan-ness still being fucking shit

[fallow-grove]

Currently my philosophy on meat-eating is:

Eat less meat

Source it as ethically and locally as possible

Be fed to pigs when I die.

that last bullet point reinvigorated my laughing fit from earlier (thank you)

[wizardfrog69]

"Queer people the least oppressed people" said a white, cishet, Christian man who is probably middle or upper-middle class with a wife and kids who's also American.

The man who is literally the least oppressed person in the entire world said queer people are the least oppressed. Idk if he knows what oppressed even means.

[mxbitters]

i had an unfortunate situation in which i had a (completely unwanted) crush on some classmate who was fairly chill but luckily last day of class he did some sort of speech on how everyone should go vegan and like in a specific way that made me verrrrrrry uncomfortable so like i think that took care of that lmao

[the-bibrarian]

- im vegan and I’ve always eaten honey, we exist

- “vegan” is actually a American thing. In France for example we called ourselves “végétaliens” from “vegetal” meaning people who eat plant-based food (and Nobody knew we existed!! Bliss)

- then American vegans made a fuss and somehow turned it into “us vs. them” in a very predictable move

- in their defence I’ve been a vegetarian then vegan since my teens, for more than 20 years now, and I’ve never met a meat eater who wasn’t personally offended by my very existence. Like, I don’t have to be militant about my diet, people will play out the whole debate by themselves. I’m just eating my ratatouille here.

- on the other hand some vegans will look you dead in the eyes and say vegetarians are worse than meat eaters because reasons and wouldnt hesitate to burn me at the stake for admitting to eating honey so have at them

- on the other other hand, while many vegan activists are aggravating for sure, what about people who make it their whole personality to dunk on vegans and pulling whole arguments from their asses like you can’t find fair trade agave syrup or locally grown chickpeas so they don’t have to address the fact that their diet is harmful for the climate, for biodiversity and for themselves? What about them?

vegans make peace with honey

no shut up do it