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[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 91 points 18 hours ago

Abstaining from a thing does not make one a vegan. That's not how any of this works.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 16 points 15 hours ago

It's like how they put the word gate after something to say that it is a scandal involving the former word.

Somesort of political scandal involving road maintenance? Oh yes well that's roadgate then. Even though the Watergate scandal was in fact it scandal in the watergate hotel, rather than a scandal about water.

[-] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

Someday we'll have Gate gate, or maybe even another scandal at the Watergate complex, so Watergate gate.

I can't wait!

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 33 points 18 hours ago

I'm sex vegan. Cry about it virgins

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 11 points 16 hours ago

I'm a sex vegetarian gotta be a bit open

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 14 hours ago

Sex flexitarian is where it's at

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago

No mayo in the bedroom? Why even bother.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Vegan aioli just doesn't cut it

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

“Vegan sex” is actually a different thing. It’s penetration but you stop before you cum.

[-] Tired@slrpnk.net 11 points 17 hours ago

If the human you're fucking consented, then consuming their fluids is vegan. Hell if they consent, eating them would be vegan too.

Animals do not consent to having fluids extracted or their lives taken and flesh consumed. Animal agriculture keeps animals in filthy, torturous conditions too, which no animal would ever consent to either.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I had a fish that died by suicide. We didn't eat it, but arguably

[-] Tired@slrpnk.net 2 points 13 hours ago

It was kept in captivity by you though, which is not it's natural habitat so any choices it made were, arguably, under duress.

If you lived by a creek and regularly recognised a fish swimming by, and one day this fish killed itself in front of you- you still shouldn't eat it as fish contain a lot of parasites and there's very likely also something toxic in the water causing the fish to harm itself this way.

But yeah, sure, hypothetically: if for a year or so you knew a wild fish that lived in an unpolluted and ecologically healthy body of water, and one day this fish chose to kill itself in front of you. You could, if you really wanted to eat a suicidal fish, eat the fish and say it was vegan because the only harm that came to the fish was through the un-coerced choices of said suicidal fish.

[-] Hellahunter@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Awe so the article author has a vendetta against vegans got it.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago

I mean, abstaining from animal products makes someone a vegan, right? If you abstain from AI products then it would follow that you’re an “AI vegan”.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Abstaining from animal products is just vegetarian. Veganism requires an extremely strict adherence to a very specific set of rules concerning animals.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 4 points 12 hours ago

Vegetarians can eat cheese, which is an animal product.

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

It follows, but it is also feels like click bait.

A definition of vegan is:

A vegetarian who eats plant products only, especially one who uses no products derived from animals, as fur or leather.

There is an environmental parallel, and it made me read the article to see what they were on about -- so I guess it worked.

To be clear, I am very pro environment (I live in it); I just feel like this is crossing the streams of related, but completely different movements, isn't particularly helpful.

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