sometimes i just don’t want to litigate it with people I just met at social events with food, awhile ago i was doing a short term job with some conservative boomer who thought even the vegetarianism was dangerous for me bcs he knew a gay couple who ‘got very ill from never eating meat’ a few decades ago.
[Picture is a late 16th / early 17th century painting called ‘The Vegetable Seller’ I saw a few years ago and was thinking about recently - English Heritage article about its restoration process: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/audley-end-house-and-gardens/history-and-stories/vegetable-seller/]
edit: for the record i am actually lactose intolerant + was unaware for years and cutting out dairy was probably the best dietary decision i’ve made from a pure personal health standpoint and my day to day quality of life
A friend of mine said that veganism is a petty bourgeois pursuit. When I asked her what her reasoning for that statement was she didn’t reply to me and stopped texting me for two days. Statistically speaking vegans have lower incomes and are more likely to be supportive of socialist causes, petty bourgeois my ass. She’s also the type to point at PETA posters and say “they cow actually wants to be eaten” – I know PETA sucks, but that is a horrible angle.
PETA’s only real flaw is not being a communist org, they do good work and most of the shit carnists criticize them for is some combination of not actually bad and completely made up
Why does PETA suck?
They’re bigoted towards autistic people
https://time.com/2798480/peta-autism-got-milk/
That’s from 2014 🙄 them doing a bad ad based on phony science over a decade ago is no reason to condemn an entire org. They even distanced themselves from that ad and say they removed it long ago
https://www.peta.org/features/peta-ad-cows-dairy-products-disease/
I didn’t know about that. It’s still an extremely bigoted thing to propagandise, even for 2014 standards.