Found in the comments of a youtube vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwI6py78gsI (I didn’t watch because I never watch youtube videos, only reading the comments.
Found in the comments of a youtube vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwI6py78gsI (I didn’t watch because I never watch youtube videos, only reading the comments.
Being vegan isn’t about being “closer to what nature intended”, it’s about reducing cruelty and harm as much as practicable/possible.
Being vegan is a lot of things to a lot of people. It’s not only about animal suffering. This is true for some people but plenty of people are vegan for health reasons.
No they’re on plant based diets. you don’t stop using rabbit glue for health reasons, or not buy a leather couch for health reasons.
Veganism is not a diet, it is a philosophical and moral stance which necessarily includes making changes to one’s diet among other things.
The dictionary disagrees with you: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vegan
ok but the vegan society, the literal originator of the word, disagrees with that.
https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/definition-veganism
I agree that many people view veganism as a diet, but they’re wrong. It’s a position of ignorance. you can probably find masses of people who understand feminism to be a superiority movement about oppressing men but that doesn’t make that true.
Yeah but the difference is there is no dictionary definition that supports that definition of feminism. It’s just an interpretation. You could say the same thing about veganism as being a philosophy that animals are superior to people. That’s a more direct metaphor and you would be just as wrong, and no dictionary would agree with you.
Any “ism” will have multiple ways to define it, and those who coin a term don’t get to define its evolution. If you want to take the “GNU/Linux” approach and insist everyone else is using the word wrong then go for it. But in modern parlance, “vegan” is frequently if not almost always used to refer to the diet, whereas “veganism” does evoke the stricter definition you’re touting.