I see no reason why a restaurant should be forced to cater to everybody.
I’d argue that more or less every restaurant already has at least one vegan ‘option’, although not necessarily a good one. If they have french fries with ketchup, or bread and margarine, they already comply with a hypothetical law.
And I don’t see any way to mandate “offer at least one delicious option” as that’s up for debate and nothing objective.
I guess more and more restaurants are adding vegetarian and vegan options nowerdays purely because there’s a demand for it. If there’s a group of five looking for a restaurant where only one of the group is a vegan, most groups will pick a restaurant that caters everyone’s needs. Thus, having no such option will result in less customers and less income.
It doesn’t have to be delicious, but it should contain most of the essential nutrients, at least similar to the non-vegan options. “French fries with ketchup” doesn’t meet this requirement.
I think there are many fast food restaurants out there where ‘just fries with ketchup’ is the healthiest choice. E.g. I doubt that fries with Frikandel in the Netherlands or a German Sausage is much healthier than the fries alone. Sure, there’s a little added protein but the fat and nitrosamines negate these small benefits.
mandating the whole private sector seems different and forcing business owners to do something that many already do will just hurt the vegan movement I think. aim for the public sector maybe? so school n whatnot are required to offer vegan options
How about no.
Veganism isn’t like Celiac or life threatening allergies. It’s literally a personal choice. A private business is under no obligation to cater to that.
Where government involvement begins and ends in terms of private business is (imo) in mandating no discrimination against things that individuals have no choice about (Gender, sexuality, race, age, etc)
But choices are a different beast. The government has no business being involved in that.
If a Vegan restaurant would do well in that area, someone would open it. If a restaurant does well with their vegan options, they keep them, if they don’t do well, they remove them. It’s called supply and demand.
I’d love to, but unfortunately we took our borders back.
Maybe in a few years if you’ll let us back in 😞
