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Dear carnivorous/omnivorous Twitter,
Please retire the "not everyone has the ability to go vegan" argument. For the following reasons:
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Please retire the "not everyone has the ability to go vegan" argument. For the following reasons:
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1. This statement, while true, is drastically overused. The number of people who literally *cannot* make this choice is minute compared to how often this argument is used.
2. It is elitist, gross, and wrong to use the fact that some people cannot make this choice as a reason for you yourself to abdicate the moral responsibility of engaging with this issue.
3.1 It is also elitist, gross, and wrong to use the fact that some people cannot make this choice as a reason to discount veganism as a whole and vegan activism in particular.
3.2 Veganism is an immense ethical issue that involves animal well being, human well being, and the well being of the world. To discount these because some people have material conditions that prevent their participation is nonsense.
We should fight to change those conditions.
We should fight to change those conditions.
3.3 We should also understand that climate change will predominantly harm the most vulnerable populations first. Animal agriculture is responsible for upwards of 51% of emissions and effects.
Thus using vulnerable populations as an excuse not to be vegan harms those populations
Thus using vulnerable populations as an excuse not to be vegan harms those populations
4.1 Arguing that people should not have an ethical discussion because some people cannot take action is wrong.
Many people cannot take actions that align with their morals; we don't demand those ethical discussions be stopped on that basis.
Many people cannot take actions that align with their morals; we don't demand those ethical discussions be stopped on that basis.
4.2 Eating animal products is an ethical issue. It is not an opinion or a lifestyle.
Humans are not obligate carnivores. We have the privilege of choice. We also have moral reasoning. These are inescapable. You can either engage or avoid, but avoiding is not an argument.
Humans are not obligate carnivores. We have the privilege of choice. We also have moral reasoning. These are inescapable. You can either engage or avoid, but avoiding is not an argument.
If you want to defend the confinement, torture, and murder of sentient life for human preference for a particular protein, then formulate an argument upon moral grounds in good faith.
Stop evading, misdirecting, using other people and abdicating your moral responsibility.
Stop evading, misdirecting, using other people and abdicating your moral responsibility.
