Veganism is a rich people diet
Right yeah, that must be why an estimated 4 billion live primarily on a plant-based diet, That must also be why most people in poverty throughout the world subsist on a primarily vegetarian diet, and why across the Chinese-Japanese, Australian, Hindustani, Central Asian, Near Eastern, Mediterranean, European-Siberian, South American, North American, Central American and Mexican regions, every single staple food is vegan.
Despite what McDonald’s might tell you, meat is a luxury. The only reason it isn’t seen as a luxury in the western world is because we heavily subsidise it with taxpayer’s money. A full 63% of all food subsidies go to meat and dairy, compared to <1% towards fruits and vegetables. 62% of your average American farmer’s earnings come from the United States government, meaning that people pay for less than half of the real terms cost of their meat. If full ecological costs -including fossil fuel use, groundwater depletion and agricultural-chemical pollution were factored in the price of meat would double or triple. The rest is paid for in tax dollars, and this is the case in most western countries. You can dismiss veganism as “a rich person diet” all you want, but it is the very definition of privilege to expect someone else to pick up the tab for your meal.
Stop erasing poor vegans and using us as pawns in your poorly thought out, knee-jerk reaction, anti-vegan bullshit. It isn’t cute, it isn’t funny, we do exist and we’re sick to death of people like you pretending that we don’t. If you don’t want to be vegan then I can’t make you, but at least have the integrity to not throw thousands of poor people under the bus just to make yourself feel better about it.
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