People consider vegans on Lemmy as too preachy. Even in vegan communities here, mods have to remove soooo many inappropriate comments (I read a few of these and they keep getting removed for good reasons). Comments that suggest going vegan on posts about animal abuse are downvoted.
At the same time, whenever there is something about Windows or Chromium based browsers, people here are doing exactly the same. “Just use Linux/Firefox/whatever”.
Because meat tastes good, and browsers don’t taste like anything?
The decades of propaganda about veganism by the meat and dairy industry is deeply embedded in cultures at this point, conservative culture especially.
People have been trained so thoroughly that they literally have a visceral, irrational response to the word veganism. It’s been made impossible to actually talk about in a coherent way with most people, and lemmy has a lot of redditor refugees who carry that kind of thing with them.
This is a good answer. Too bad people are downvoting it for the reasons mentioned.
This comment borders on some conservative talking about how they’re “being censored for speaking the truth” after rambling about some conspiracy theory or saying something racist.
The person you responded to is basically saying that anyone who eats meat is a brainwashed moron without any agency. I rarely ever see anyone have such a visceral reaction toward someone who claims to be vegetarian. Why do you think that is?
Go vegan.
Use FOSS.
Use public transport.
Reject flying.
Punch Nazis.
Suggesting a browser or bashing a corporate brand are not the same as encouraging morally driven life choices. Is that not obvious?
Not really obvious to me. I’m bashing corporate brands as a “morally driven life choice” as well.
That’s fair enough, but it seems it should be obvious that the weighting of browser choice, not moral for most, it’s a browser, and massive diet change based entirely on subjective morality are just not comparable.
Most people going vegan are doing this for ethical reasons, which is the opposite of subjective morality, since the entire point of ethics is, that it does not allow subjective morality.
My point is, that everything about veganism on Lemmy (even in vegan communities) keeps getting downvoted for “too preachy”, even though it often just points out facts, while the same people are literally preaching the Word Of Richard Stallman.
Vegan is a tradeoff. Replacing highly bioavailable food with lectins and other things. It can be done in a healthy way, but there is lots of nuance and discussion and it’s a deeply personal choice.
Just because people agree on the tradeoffs of one thing, doesn’t mean they agree with the tradeoffs of another.
