• udon@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Non-vegan, hearing that vegans exist: “Hey, these people are different from me! I hate them!”

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      16 hours ago

      It’s because the very existence of veganism implies that a) eating animals and the things they produce is harmful and b) you don’t need to eat animals or the things they produce. Omnivores have to argue against one or both of those claims, or acknowledge that they’re doing something wrong, and humans will commit a lot of evils to convince ourselves that we’re not doing anything wrong

      “I’m a good person, good people don’t do bad things, therefore nothing I do is bad”

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        8 hours ago

        Nah I think most ppl honestly don’t care. We don’t even care about each other as the western world’s entire lifestyle is based on the exploitation of other countries and their ppl.

        You expect someone to suddenly give a damn about a cow 500 miles away?