That isn’t factual. The diversity of food is different in every area. And it doesn’t come up just in veganism. Nutritionists and athletes talk about it often.
You can stop pretending that you’re trying to advocate for people in food-starved areas. Veganism, believe it or not, has never actually been about trying to force people in marginalized areas to adopt a vegan diet. Veganism is about harm reduction, full stop. The people who appeal to veganism are the same people who can make those choices in any grocery store that they go to, whether they live in a food desert or not. Personally, I don’t live in an area that’s considered vegan-friendly. However, I find myself to be okay with that purely because I know for a fact that my decisions aren’t reliant on convenience alone.
You can’t pretend to know who I am and what I advocate for. I am ending this conversation now because it isn’t from a place of understanding. It’s coming off as angry.
I know exactly who you are. You are the lived experience of many vegans of the person that pretends to know more than us, as if every single person who went vegan didn’t have a deep personal conflict with themselves before deciding to align their morality with their lifestyle. You know very little, yet try to advocate against us on our own perceived behalf, using your own sister like some sort of “I have a (insert group here) so I definitely know things”. I don’t need to understand you because I was you. The difference is that at some point, I was willing to acknowledge I didn’t know enough about the moral vacancy of the situation and decided to learn more. The more I learned, the more I grew disgusted with our systemic murder of sentient life and how we didn’t need this destructive mechanism to survive in any way, shape, or form.
