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- animal exploitation
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- cognitive dissonance
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- defensiveness
- deprivation
- disgust
- divergence
- dumpster
- eating in restaurants
- eating with non-vegans
- ethical vegan
- food waste
- freegan
- freegan exception
- Gary Francione
- genocide
- global applicability
- globally applicable
- grandmothers
- guilt
- happy meat
- hypocrisy
- interviews
- inviolable concepts
- judgment
- labels
- language use
- locavore
- logical fallacies
- martyrdom
- meat is murder
- moral obligation
- moral vs. immoral
- new idea of veganism
- non-vegan freegan food
- nutrition
- NVFF
- offensive vegan language
- personal purity
- preaching
- privilege
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- puritanical
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- reasons for rejecting veganism
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- social functions
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- traveling
- vegan bubble
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Arbitrary Does Not Mean Poorly-defined
There seems to be some confusion about what I mean when I say that veganism is an arbitrary line. Some people are understanding “arbitrary” to mean “poorly-defined” and it’s causing them to misunderstand what I’m saying. But it’s not entirely … Continue reading
What I Eat, What I Don’t, and Why
This post is necessarily about me, but I want to make it as much NOT about me as possible. I’m not writing this because I assume that people have a genuine interest in what *I* eat. I’m just an anonymous … Continue reading
why an arbitrary line is not necessarily a bad thing
Some non-vegans reject the harm reduction argument for veganism because they have a problem with the fact that veganism is an arbitrary line. They see this arbitrariness as a fatal flaw that justifies their rejection of veganism. And they’re right … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged arbitrary line, causing harm, consumer boycott, consumer veganism, factory farming, freegan, happy meat, harm reduction, hunting, locavore, moral obligation, reasons for rejecting veganism, self-righteousness, striving for an ideal, suffering reduction, supererogation, supererogatory, vegan is the moral baseline
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wasting cheesy burritos is not vegan
This post was originally intended to be a simple comment on this post at Let Them Eat Meat, but as it grew and grew, it just made more sense to make a full post out of it. If you don’t … Continue reading
Posted in freeganism
Tagged consumer veganism, cravings, deprivation, disgust, dumpster, eating in restaurants, eating with non-vegans, food waste, freegan, freegan exception, humility, hypothetical world, logical fallacies, non-vegan freegan food, NVFF, personal purity, setting an example, vegan bubble, vegan is the moral baseline, vegan street cred, vegan utopia, vegans being assholes
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is eating non-vegan freegan food compatible with vegan ethics?
Before I get to the specifics, just let me alleviate your curiosity and answer the question: yes, in my opinion, it is. I know it’s pure sacrilege in most vegan circles to assert that one can eat animal products and … Continue reading
Speciesist Vegan 