• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’m not at all, vegan as a personal trait is a bit of a broad church these days.

    There’s the people that are mostly motivated by the not-killing-animals thing

    Then there’s the ones doing it predominantly for environmental reasons

    Then you’ve got the ones doing it for various health reasons

    Then you’ve got people doing it predominantly for cost reasons (fewer here, given vegan is still treated as a luxury aspect in a lot of food categories)

    Those groups do not have to overlap in views at all. It’s entirely expected for there to be disagreement and purity test drama given that IMO

    • igmelonh@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      Yeah, I’m not in any vegan groups but I’ve seen (what is hopefully) a vocal online minority of those who use the label for killing-is-wrong reasons come off as angrier at folks using it for any other reason than they are at folks who do consume animal products, and insisting that the other camps should use “plant-based (diet)” instead.