First of all, the post utilized “sour cream” as an example, so bringing up something like “vegan turkey slices,” a food that explicitly is titled with a mention of the animal-based product that it’s imitating, is most certainly a false equivalence and a bad-faith gesture to bring up in an effort to support your point.
Furthermore, this post has nothing to do with whether or not imitation meat/dairy products are “solutions” to meat consumption, whatever the fuck that is materially supposed to mean, so this is a red herring.
Veganism is an ethical stance. People don’t go vegan out of liking certain imitation products; the consumption comes second once people realize the unethicality of eating the animal-derived variants of said imitation products. Such imitation products do not need to exist for people to go vegan, but they’re tasty for people who enjoy them and don’t want to derive such a taste from animal exploitation.
May I ask: Are you vegan? If so, why push what I can only interpret as concern trolling?
First of all, the post utilized “sour cream” as an example, so bringing up something like “vegan turkey slices,” a food that explicitly is titled with a mention of the animal-based product that it’s imitating, is most certainly a false equivalence and a bad-faith gesture to bring up in an effort to support your point.
Furthermore, this post has nothing to do with whether or not imitation meat/dairy products are “solutions” to meat consumption, whatever the fuck that is materially supposed to mean, so this is a red herring.
Veganism is an ethical stance. People don’t go vegan out of liking certain imitation products; the consumption comes second once people realize the unethicality of eating the animal-derived variants of said imitation products. Such imitation products do not need to exist for people to go vegan, but they’re tasty for people who enjoy them and don’t want to derive such a taste from animal exploitation.
May I ask: Are you vegan? If so, why push what I can only interpret as concern trolling?