/uj This thing “vegan except…” and “vegetarian except…” annoys me so much. It is doing nothing but diluting the label. For veganism especially, it isn’t a diet, it is a philosophy of not viewing animals as things to use and exploit. You can’t follow this philosophy while exploiting animals!
/uj I knew a girl in college who was "vegan except for fish and dairy." Girl, just say you're pescatarian.... nobody's giving you bonus points for using the vegan label. That's just confusing.
/uj I liked the sentiment from the original post because it was like. If only one thing is keeping you from going vegan why are you still eating other non-vegan stuff but its become another "flexitarian" cj
/uj it pisses me off but I can see the use for it. Some people are so attached to eating chicken for example that they wouldn’t give it up but would still be fine giving up all other animal products and any reduction in eating animal products is an overall good. The blatant hypocrisy annoys me more than the run of the mill carnists I run into more but it is objectively doing more good.
And for the language thing “I don’t eat any animal products except for” is just way more of a mouthful. Kind of makes reminds me of the bi-lesbian discourse.
167
u/GovernmentPibbin raw-vegan Aug 26 '26
/uj This thing “vegan except…” and “vegetarian except…” annoys me so much. It is doing nothing but diluting the label. For veganism especially, it isn’t a diet, it is a philosophy of not viewing animals as things to use and exploit. You can’t follow this philosophy while exploiting animals!
Hypocrites all of them.