[berryvegan]

✨ New product alert ✨

I haven't used it for baking yet but the reviews are positive on that front. It made great fried eggs (with black salt 😋). It's made with yeast because science is cool.

[magentaenergy]

Veganism is one of the only forms of political activism that people treat as if you're being a proselytizing, militant, asshole if you actually stand by your principles and speak up for and about animal rights, cruelty, and exploitation (and sometimes if you even just casually mention you're vegan) because they don't want to have to think about what they're participating in. People want to disparage veganism and vegans for being against meat-eating as if the mass cruelty of the animal agriculture industry isn't against a vegan's ethics and their meat just falls from the sky. You don't want to think about the cruelty needed to treat animals as products but instead want to encourage the continued funding of the cruelty while spreading misinformation, disinformation, and outright hostility towards vegans because we care about animals as other sentient beings and followed that to the conclusion that they shouldn't be slaughtered, experimented on, or used for entertainment.

People expect you to treat veganism like it's just a personal diet plan so how dare you hold the stance individual actions matter and correct their misinformation.

[tornprince]

The thing that bugs me about "being vegan is pointless because we need SYSTEMATIC changes from LEGISLATURE" is it's like ok cool. And where do you think the push to do that comes from? You think if everybody continues to make the exact same choices re: animal products they are currently making Forever and you just tell people trying to change their habits they're wasting their time forever, some day the legislature will just...randomly decide to fix everything for us? They'll just realize it's worth the time and energy and money to fix a system nobody is complaining about? Really?

[jadeblueafterglow]

genuinely wondering, where did the idea that vegans don't care about the welfare and conditions of the people who are picking fruits and vegetables? and why do non vegans make themselves exempt from it, as if they're eating completely different fruits and vegetables we vegans don't have access to?

if anything, i've had the exact opposite experiences non vegans are claiming. every vegan i've come across agrees that no person should be working under harsh and dangerous conditions, or be exploited for their labor, and fully understand where the food we eat comes from and want these systems to be dismantled and changed and work/advocate for it

while the non vegans i've talked to pull the "no ethical consumption under capitalism so who cares about how i choose to do things" excuse and don't even bother engaging with or thinking critically about the subject unless they want to pwn vegans or whatever.

[patchesthegreat]

I'm not vegan but I don't think there's a better example of "making up a person to get mad at" than how non-vegans talk about vegans. yeah I've met obnoxious vegans, you probably have too, and I still hear far less from them than I do from non-vegans inventing arguments to piss themselves off

[k0m0r3biii]

kind of truly dont understand why people think vegans care more about animals than people... thats like saying you dont care about other minorities because you choose one specific cause to dedicate the most of your time to. most vegans are activists through other causes which predominantly affect humans. the weird disdain for vegans is so strange

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i’m sure this opinion will get me killed for some reason but it’s wild how almond milk seems to be the dominant alternative milk when it tastes like nut based cerebrospinal fluid meanwhile Oat Milk is right there being sexy and thick and delicious

[cheaphalloweencostume]

no i hate other people and my opinion is the only real one #MyOpinion

[anton--rayne]

people say very silly things about veganism

[anton--rayne]

the average vegan has failed to consider Insert same argument 581

[veganshoechoe]

We vegans actually sat and discussed you, individual with health problems that require you to eat meat or you'll die. Yeah, we decided that you, specifically, should starve. No one else though. Just you

[camoftarakas]

this isn't vagueposting about anyone since it's just really popular right now to say "being a vegan isn't even good for the environment. it's better to eat locally farmed animal protein then imported weird plants" but like?! is that an issue? source for dumb vegans insisting on eating a palm heart every day instead of farm salmon? that is NOT the dichotomy. you guys are making shit up to be quite honest

people are not eating a lot of sustainable, local meat product. they are in fact eating mass-produced meat from as far away as it can list in a fridge or freezer. people absolutely strawman the vegan agenda as eating nothing but agave and palm oil. like, really? there are also locally farmed vegetables??? in fact, they're way easier to access than this local sustainable animal protein you all are alleging. I'm not vegan either but i want some hard numbers as to why a black bean patty and seitan are worse than any random ribeye from the supermarket. ya weirdos.

[acti-veg]

Even if the straw man were true, the conclusion would still be false. Transport is a small contributor to emissions. For most food products, it accounts for less than 10%, and it’s much smaller for the largest GHG emitters. In beef from beef herds, it’s 0.5%. You can read about this in detail here along with peer reviewed sources but the crux of the issue is that in terms of emissions, what you eat is far more important than where it is from.

As George Monbiot points out in his book Regenesis (an excellent and very well researched book on this topic): ‘You would have to ship a kilo of dried peas roughly one hundred times around the world before it’s greenhouse gases matched those of a kilo of local beef.’

Accessibility is something that nobody making these arguments seems to want to talk about, either, and you’re right to point it out. How many people can actually afford to buy locally raised beef? When compared with almost any other wisely chosen plant protein, we are talking many times the price for a product that is less sustainable and less healthy to boot. The vast majority of people in the US and Western Europe are buying factory farmed meat, statistically.

What this comes down to is that people misrepresent what meat eaters eat, while also having no idea what vegans eat. So we end up with this bizarre dichotomy where we’re comparing locally raised beef to agave and quinoa. Instead of factory farmed meat to canned lentils, chickpeas, beans, peas, dried pasta and noodles, tofu and frozen veg, which would be a much more honest comparison.

The really sad thing is, that even according to their own wildly inaccurate and obviously self-serving comparison, locally farmed beef would still be orders of magnitude more environmentally damaging than any niche vegan product that they want to pretend we’re all eating as the main part of our diet. It is all just absolutely pathetic.

[shamebats]

Average vegan diet according to Tumblr:

(The jacket is made from PU and one is consumed for each meal, everything is made with child slave labor outside of our galaxy and flown in using rocket ships).

[berryvegan]

Vegan Tumblr is feeling way too much like TikTok today

[iz-robin]

Used the term "boycotting cruel and unnecessary industries" instead of "going vegan" when talking to non-vegan liberal :)))

I received silence rather than hostility. Maybe this is a better way to phrase it to people who have automatic negative opinions of veganism but do believe that boycotting works.

If you try this plz tell me how it went

[osmanthusoolong]

Preface: I am not a vegan. I am in fact entirely unable to go vegan

People love bringing up the rude/ableist/racist vegan they encountered, or read about, or are convinced exist everywhere, dressed entirely in head to toe plastic fibres and being sooooooo mean to a smol bean who just wants to eat their bacon double cheeseburger in peace, and will bring them up any time someone brings up the absolutely indisputable damage of modern animal agriculture

I am really sorry about that one really annoying person who was a friend of a friend in university or whatever and kept insisting that you needed to go vegan immediately. Or like one random fucking person on a blog somewhere. But if you’re going to say that that’s equivalent to the agricultural companies that are still (and have been for centuries!) just fucking massacring indigenous people for grazing land, or crippling their racialized workers en masse, or whose cost-cutting measures are leading to epidemics, not even touching on the needless, preventable harm to animals, you have lost the fucking plot

And are indistinguishable from the Fox News Uncles who lose their fucking marbles seeing a veggie burger or oat milk on a menu

[acti-veg]

I think that at this point, about 95% of the anti-vegan posts doing the rounds can easily be answered with this single sentence:

“Okay, but it is possible care about more than one thing at a time…”

[trydrinkingwater]

ohhhhh my god you made a snarky uninformed comment on a post about veganism? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite the liver king

[unspuncreature]

to anyone who may be considering ethical/environmental/animal welfare-related diet changes this year, please remember that even small changes stack and compound to have a larger impact than you may realize!!!!

you do not need to be perfect to be good!!!!!

your meatless monday night dinner has a greater impact on animals and the environment than a sanctimonious redditor chastising someone for enjoying dairy cheese

your interest in environmentalism and animal welfare and the impacts of eating animals is worth exponentially more than any amount of shame about what you choose to eat

eating well is not about trying to meet an ever changing standard of purity or perfection, but about doing the best you can with what you’ve got every day :o)

[c3rvida3]

*goes to egg your house but I find out you're vegan so I ¼ cup of unsweetened applesauce your house instead*

[ruinedhands]

Okay I hear you, but that's not going to work. As always, when you're thinking of vegan egg substitutes, it's important to think about the purpose of the egg in your recipe.

Eggs are used in this recipe because they smell gross and don't come off easily (due to their tendency to harden/cook in the sun). This is not a situation for applesauce, which will come off in a light rain.

While unconventional, the substitute you're looking for here is sourdough starter. It's goopy, it'll smell atrocious in the hot sun, and it'll harden onto the walls like cement. If you try to get it off with water, you'll end up with a sticky dough.

Just make sure to respectfully ask your target if they have a gluten allergy before doing this - wouldn't want to trade one evil for another.

[valentineish]

This has beautiful synergy with "let me get this bitch's pronouns before I curse them out" in the game of hate

[jamiebythesea]

Mix your sourdough starter with durian essence for maximum impact