> Then then we have the decadent white folks with first world problems complicating things with crazy vegan diets.
What does skin color have to do with veganism? Nothing at all. And most vegans are actually brown, as the sibling comment has pointed out. This is not a "first world" problem, since in fact the first world is clearly consuming the most meat. (+)
Want to know what's decadent? The scale of industrial meat production. Keeping animals who never see any daylight in a much too small space for example. Eating beef everyday despite climate change.
(+) And, by the way, I have always disliked the term "first world problem". On average, life tastes pretty much the same for everyone, though obviously it's different in extreme circumstances. Suffering and pain and real and imagined problems feel essentially the same for everyone. By all means, let's improve the economic conditions in the third world but let's stop pretending economic abundance somehow equals happiness and a lack of problems.
What does skin color have to do with veganism? Nothing at all. And most vegans are actually brown, as the sibling comment has pointed out. This is not a "first world" problem, since in fact the first world is clearly consuming the most meat. (+)
Want to know what's decadent? The scale of industrial meat production. Keeping animals who never see any daylight in a much too small space for example. Eating beef everyday despite climate change.
(+) And, by the way, I have always disliked the term "first world problem". On average, life tastes pretty much the same for everyone, though obviously it's different in extreme circumstances. Suffering and pain and real and imagined problems feel essentially the same for everyone. By all means, let's improve the economic conditions in the third world but let's stop pretending economic abundance somehow equals happiness and a lack of problems.