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Things I apparently talk about a lot
- 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
- veganish
- vegan is the moral baseline
- vegans as hippies trope
- vegan soundbites
- vegan street cred
- Western way of thinking
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Tag Archives: vegan is the moral baseline
How Disgust Kills the Vegan Martyr
A lot of new vegans tend to think of themselves as a martyr to a cause. They want to eat cheese and eggs and maybe even meat, but they have been convinced by the logic of adopting a “cruelty free” … 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
The Earth Is Big, and That’s Okay
I know that not everyone on Earth has the option of being vegan, or even vegetarian, which is why one of my maxims (which I’m still working on) is as follows: “veganism is not, and needn’t be, globally applicable to … Continue reading
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Tagged abolitionism, Anthony Bourdain, cognitive dissonance, disgust, ethical vegan, ethnocentrism, global applicability, globally applicable, grandmothers, guilt, meat is murder, moral superiority, moral vs. immoral, privilege, rudeness, traveling, vegan is the moral baseline, Western way of thinking
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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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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 