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Welcome
Welcome to c/vegan@lemmy.world. 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
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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 Matrix Instance:
Vegan Dating App Veggly
Vegan Fediverse
Lemmy:
Mastodon:
Other Vegan Communities
General Vegan Comms
Circlejerk Comms
Vegan Food / Cooking
!homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org
Debate a Vegan
Vegan Food Scanner
Attribution
- Banner image credit: Jean Weber of INRA on Wikimedia Commons
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Just one thing: veganism is not about protecting animals, just not exploiting them needlessly.
Getting nutrition isn't 'going out of your way'. This is something you have to do no matter what. Veganism is just going 1 or 2 aisles over in the supermarket and fetching the alternative to the animal explotation. It's not like volunteering, protecting people’s rights, stopping climate policy rollbacks, scrolling social media, or even playing video games. It's just changing an action you daily take to another one with similar effort level.
This seems like arguing semantics, but couldn't that just as correctly be phrased as "protecting animals from needless exploitation"? Personally, I like to define animal rights as "protecting animals from humans" and human rights as "protecting humans from humans" because it's a fun way to put it and reasonably accurate.
The same could be said about boycotting companies that are supporting Israel's genocide, funding lobbying groups that support bad climate policies, or exploiting people in nations with less worker protections. Except perhaps in most cases it would be fetching the item beside it instead of an aisle or two over.
That's ignoring a lot of the challenges of going vegan. It's not just buying different groceries, it's also adapting or replacing recipes to work with the vegan products you've bought. It's making sure restaurants have at least one vegan option when you go out (though you could be like me and just have "cheat" meals when you occasionally go out). It's making sure your cosmetic products don't do animal testing. Not that it has to all be done at once or at all, of course, but no matter how much you commit, it's still a change. The food will taste different, the products will be different, the location in the store will be different.
The amount of effort is definitely greater at the start, but eventually it gets to a similar effort as the status quo as you get used to it (assuming there's a decent & consistent selection of vegan options in this hypothetical person's vicinity, which is pretty likely in the places most likely to read this comment).
By your semantics, someone who doesn't abuse children can say they protect children from abuse. If someone comes up to me and says "I protect children from abuse", I interpret that completely differently from "I don't abuse children".
If you truly are against doing something, can you support it while being against it?
Are you against needlessly exploiting animals?