Catholics are obligated to not eat “meat” on Ash Wednesday and Fridays during Lent. However, when used by Catholics, the term “meat” doesn’t encompass fish. I remember being taught this, and I asked my grandmother, “But isn’t fish a form of meat?” She then showed me a page from an explicitly Catholic glossary that defined “meat” as flesh that comes from land animals specifically, so it didn’t include seafood at all. It’s silly as hell to me that an animal living underwater somehow negates the “meat” property from its flesh when you consume it.

Did the person who tell you this happen to be Catholic?

Upside down Benito will never get old

When I open up the text and it’s not just you saying “I hardly know 'er!”

“Vegans kill fewer plants because most crops are grown to feed livestock rather than humans.”

Reading the descriptor of “Average looking cishet white middle class guy” and noticing that none of those terms apply to me surely feels a certain way.

People love to say that such comparisons undermine just how bad human oppression is, but what’s actually going on is the inverse.

Carnists trivialize the oppression of non-human animals so much that they think that a pig being forced into a gas chamber is something more to shrug your shoulders at than it is to compare to a human being forced into a gas chamber.

It’s honestly quite sickening.

this one right here

Correct me if I’m wrong, but casually erasing the existence of anti-Zionist Jews seems pretty antisemitic to me.

Not only is she a loud and outspoken vegan, but she’s inspired me to be more vocally annoying online about veganism too.

She’s also an atheist, a leftist, and does not want children.

Love her 💚

Fun fact: a big reason why I broke up with my ex is that she’s an apologist, even though she excluded animal products from her life and has done so for 7 years. It started to seem like she just personally found animal products disgusting, not that she had any actual ethical position against carnism. It was like she believed it’s okay for others to be carnists as long as they aren’t disgusted by animal flesh and secretions. That alone was too much incompatibility for me, so my current partner is most certainly a breath of fresh air.

More fitting since Fantano himself is vegan

I actually named the image file “Genocide isn’t vegan, Phoebe.png”

As someone who is black, non-binary, pansexual, neurodivergent, and vegan, this comment goes so damn hard

As long as non-vegan leftists aren’t anti-vegan, I really am not too bothered by their existence, at least relatively speaking. I find the fact that anyone, regardless of political ideology, consumes animal products to be an unpleasant fact to acknowledge. Still, I think it ultimately all comes down to ignorance versus malice. When a non-vegan leftist just hasn’t adequately considered veganism, it’s much less bothersome to me than, like I said, when they’re actively against veganism. Of all the viewpoints you could change people’s views on, veganism might be the hardest because it requires a drastic move to a different way of living. To follow through with their newly acquired view that animal liberation is crucial comes with a hefty amount of changing their actions, and that can definitely make it hard to convince someone to change, especially if it’s radically different from the lifestyle they’re accustomed to (i.e. convincing a vegetarian who only consumes dairy every now and then to go vegan is much easier than convincing someone who eats ham and cheese omelets every morning for breakfast on top of meat in every other meal to go vegan).

It’s also worth noting that people take the criticism of animal product consumption very personally. If a vegan says “Eating meat is ethically wrong,” an omnivore who’s never met that vegan in their life might feel personally offended because they don’t want to feel ethically wrong as an individual. When I criticize carnism, it’s a critique of how it’s been engrained in so many of our brains, and it would be better to take that mentality out of our brains, as a society, as much as possible.

If carnists admit that you are right about your view that consuming animal products is wrong. In that case, they’ll feel inclined to disagree because if they agreed with such a viewpoint, they’d either have to A) live with being a hypocrite (which is considered very shameful for a lot of people) or B) actively make lifestyle changes to veganism that they would find “too inconvenient” for them.