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- abolitionism
- absolutism
- animal exploitation
- animal rights
- animal suffering
- Anthony Bourdain
- anti-speciesism
- arbitrary line
- argument framing
- asceticism
- blissful ignorance
- cognitive dissonance
- consumer veganism
- 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
- protein
- puritanical
- racism
- reasons for rejecting veganism
- rudeness
- sexism
- slavery
- social functions
- speciesism
- striving for an ideal
- supererogation
- supererogatory
- temptation
- traveling
- vegan bubble
- vegan ethics
- vegan friends
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- vegan is the moral baseline
- vegans as hippies trope
- vegan soundbites
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Tag Archives: locavore
What Does 95% Vegan Mean?
CarpeVegan is a website that, like me, is trying to foster a new idea of what it means to be vegan (or veganish). One of CV’s more controversial ideas is that we, as vegans, should consider that someone being 95% … Continue reading
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Tagged 95% vegan, alcohol, animal suffering, Anthony Bourdain, birthday cake, Gary Francione, locavore, new idea of veganism, vegan police, veganish
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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
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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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Speciesist Vegan 