• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    The cause has been tainted by the extremists, to the point where even some vegans are being pushed away from the movement.

    Of course, the ones that are on a niche media platform, in a community dedicated to veganism, are likely to be the nutter ones.

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      2 months ago

      Yikes. You know, vegans are targeted by the extremely wealthy & powerful meat & dairy industries who spend untold fortunes making the vegan lifestyle look as unappealing and “crazy” as possible?

      I mean, I’m sure you’re galaxy brain is impervious to propaganda and everything, I’m just saying, you’re painting with an awfully broad brush.

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          Or its tracing the money and influence of different lobbies in America. Just look at the original gerrymandered food pyramid made to accommodate the dairy industry. Or lawsuits against plant based alternatives.

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      I think the cause has been tainted by the rampant propagandizing and demonization across all forms of media that the movement has been subjected to. You’re doing it now, even - what the hell even is an “extremist vegan”?

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        Extreme vegans are the people who stand outside restaurants, grocery stores, butcher shops, etc. and yell at people just trying to go about their lives calling them carnists, corpose munchers, blood mouths, animal torturers, and talk about murdering animals (murder is the killing of one human by another) or eating cadavers (a cadaver is a dead human body.) They don’t simply go about their lives living their best vegan life but harass and harangue people. They do the same thing online.

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        2 months ago

        You should read the post the vegan@lemmy.world mods made in response to the admin actions. Phrases like “carnist Lemmy admin”, as if that’s the reason they didn’t like the idea of starving a cat.

        There was also a comment saying Vegan should be a protected belief, like other religions.

        It’s not a conspiracy by the meat and dairy industry.

        A carnist lemmy world instance admin has stepped in and meatsplained to the mods

        It’s difficult to take people like this seriously.