That’s what makes it a privilege.

Completely wrong. You can still be vegan even if you aren’t able to live without being forced to use animal products. The literal definition of veganism includes “as far as is possible and practicable” for reason. Please make sure you read the sidebar as that distinction is very important. It allows all the things that you’ve outlined in your comment as acceptable under the definition of veganism.

Archive link as it was paywalled for me

Yeah but bees always make more than they need and the humans can leave them plenty of honey to survive winter

What gives us the right to exploit them because they’re good workers?

https://yvfi.ca/honey

Your not killing a baby chicken every time you eat an egg.

While this could be argued there is nuance to this. Do you know what happens to the male chickens in egg slavery yards? Many baby chickens are killed in the production of said egg.

http://yvfi.ca/eggs

I don’t hate vegans at all, I hate people that are pretentious assholes about being vegan

Which is zero vegans.

You can only comment here under the guise of good faith for so long. You’re trying to bait a certain response so that you can “prove” a point and put words in other people’s mouths.

Like naeva said comments by nonvegans are allowed. The rule doesn’t explicitly preclude anyone who isn’t vegan from engaging in conversation. What it does not allow is for bad faith comments, strawmen arguments (carnist rhetoric and the like), and those that are hostile to vegans (antivegans) to come here and as the OP would put it “meatsplain”.

I remove comments that are advocating for animal abuse, carnist propaganda, speciesism, and those made by antivegans.

Discussions about veganism here are heavily skewed as vegans are outnumbered vastly and it tends to be a sensitive topic due to cognitive dissonance. This makes it so that actual discussion is very hard as it often gets overun by reactionary takes and hostility to empathy.

Pinning posts has not helped in the past as most people don’t read it or refuse to listen to the message before commenting here.

It should be called the Victorian Biohazard Bill, but it just doesn’t portray us as biosecurity terrorists as much

It’s protected in the UK

It protects all religions and a wide range of philosophical beliefs including atheism, humanism, agnosticism, veganism and pacifism.

Edit: Found it

https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/mr-j-casamitjana-costa-v-the-league-against-cruel-sports-3331129-2018

https://vegantheoryclub.org/

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A screenshot of a post by a user “Brusswole Sprouts” with the handle “@swolesprouts”. The post reads as follows:

I’ve been vegan for over 10 years and I still don’t understand why it’s acceptable to make fun of vegans in social settings while you would never make fun of someone eating halal or not drinking for religious or cultural reasons.

Why is vegan culture less deserving of your respect?

Pictures of text should have accompanying alt text. I’ll see if we can add that as a rule

I can’t go vegan because of the vegans 🙄

Literally 1984

We shouldn’t have to lock posts. I’ve appointed new mods such that there shouldn’t be any issues when I’m not watching.

Ah yes, the carnists coming into the comments in good faith ™️ to explain how the vegans are actually animal abusers never ceases to amaze me! Please kindly continue commenting so that you can be permanently banned from the community!

Edit: Also, OP getting reported twice for “animal abuse”… seriously the moderator reports are all carnists reporting vegans on the vegan community 🤯

What happened?

I went to bed and didn’t lock the post. I’m the only active mod and my timezone seems to make it so that I am sleeping during these kinds of posts.

Be advised, I’m the only active mod on this community and I just saw this thread. !vegan@lemmy.ml has quicker mod action (in my opinion) as well as less carnist trolling

Thanks for posting here @hamid@vegantheoryclub.org! I’ll add these to this community’s sidebar.

(Also, really like your lemmy instance’s default theme!)

Preface: Australian, may not be helpful for other countries

Do you have anybody who can sneak food in for you? I had a friend in ICU who was refused vegan food. I visited them and found out they hadn’t eaten, so I head to the nearest store and get them food and smuggle it in (as well as their meds they were refused access to).

It was also the case that in their file they were not marked as vegan despite telling all the doctors and nurses. I had to suss out the treating doctor as they were the only one who could add that to the file, but even then they thought it meant “veggo” (Vegeterian) and that ultimately didn’t fix the issue. So it could be the case that you haven’t told the right person? I understand it’s stupid that you have to go through all this effort, but don’t give out hope as it might be a management issue stopping you from getting food.

You can’t just title a post here as “Study:” and not link to any relevant scientific literature. I couldn’t find any research referenced in your article, only youtube videos and news articles. Those are not problematic references in and of itself for a blog, but they are not studies which is what your title seems to indicate that you are talking about. Please just link the DOI of the paper you are talking about and stop self posting Medium articles with no references!

You then mention “20 compelling reasons to adopt a whole food, plant-based diet” which is not directly related to veganism. Most of your reasons come across as snake-oil cures to every aliment by practicing a plant based diet. Plant based =/= vegan. Remember where you are posting this, this is a vegan community after all. Reason 20 seems a bit strange as “reducing animal product consumption” is not what most vegans are trying to do. We aim to eliminate it the best we can.

I have messaged you on Lemmy two weeks ago regarding posting medium articles with tracking links (unique friend codes that bypass the paywall/loginwall) and I have commented publicly telling you to post the articles in the comments so that it is accessible for everyone to read. You still haven’t replied to a simple question about if you were writing these articles yourself and self-promoting them, and I made sure not to allude to if such a thing was welcomed or not as I wanted a discussion about it and for there to be transparency regarding self-promotion and biases.

This is a warning that if you post any misleading articles, or plant-based health dieting blogs, that you will not be allowed to post here again. If you could just respond to the criticism in the comments that would be very helpful as it is very unclear what your intentions are and people may assume the worst or unreasonably overlook this as you can’t assume anything from the little discourse there is from you.

You currently have 25 posts and 2 comments on your profile. It’s in your best interest to see your engagement go up.