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Welcome to c/[email protected]. Broadly, this community is a place to discuss veganism. Discussion on intersectional topics related to the animal rights movement are also encouraged.
What is Veganism?
'Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals ...'
— abridged definition from The Vegan Society
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- Discrimination is not tolerated. This includes speciesism.
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- Bad-faith carnist rhetoric & anti-veganism are not allowed, as this is not a space to debate the merits of veganism. Anyone is welcome here, however, and so good-faith efforts to ask questions about veganism may be given their own weekly stickied post in the future (see current stickied discussion).
- before jumping into the community, we encourage you to read examples of common fallacies here.
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Resources on Veganism
A compilation of many vegan resources/sites in a Google spreadsheet:
Here are some documentaries that are recommended to watch if planning to or have recently become vegan:
- You Will Never Look at Your Life in the Same Way Again
- Dominion (2018) (CW: gore, animal abuse)
Vegan Fediverse
Lemmy: vegantheoryclub.org
Mastodon: veganism.social
I'm reading and commenting in this community for more than a year (had a different user before this one) and there was a dramatic shift of this community in the last couple of days. And from my perspective, in the completely wrong direction. It felt like the place I liked before was burnt down violently.
This thread exactly hit the nerve for me and I think it was written in a respectful way. No one said 'fuck off crazy mod' but rather 'we welcome you to stay as a member but we feel you shouldn't have the extra privileges of a moderator anymore'.
Of course, I can only speak for myself but if the community would have continued in the way it did over the last week I probably would have left and blocked it. I don't want to have a community with passive aggressive content in my feed and I don't want to spend time on answering comments if I have to fear them being deleted slightly after.
Us vegans are a part of society and a pretty small part to be honest. As such, we shouldn't build up a walled garden of moral superiosity, pointing fingers at these 'stupid, evil carnists'. I already hate these terms. If you want to change the world for the better, don't think of 'them' as the enemy but potential future allys. Especially, If non-vegans are motivated to read and engage in this community respectfully, then that's a success already.
Even if they're not going veggie or vegan themselves, they might at least get some positive insights on veganism. That vegans aren't just freaks but just normal people that eat plants and you can still talk to them and be friends with.
Maybe they own a restaurant IRL and after reading here for some time in /all, they add a vegan option to their menu. Maybe they're a team lead in IT and thanks to this community, they'll check with their employees if someone wants a vegan option on the christmas party.
If you ban the 'evil carnist' and post insulting memes, you will neither hurt them nor change anything for the better.
I would have used the same examples but to show how useless it is to ask someone if they could pretty please tone down the animal holocaust a notch.
Don't underestimate the mid and long term effect of small changes. If there's vegan options in supermarkets, restaurants and at festivities, then it's much easier to be a vegan. The lower the hurdle, the less restricted people feel in their everyday life, the more people will adapt. So that one restaurant owner who doesn't change his own diet, might still foster the journey of other new vegetarians and vegans.
How was it "respectful" to accuse two other moderators of being organs of Beaver? Or to start banning people for the sort of disagreement that must necessarily come up so that a consensus can be reached? This was not a good faith moderator action. This was abuse. It happens to be abuse against people you want to see abused. I hope you can see that.
This is exactly the sort of dialogue that should have happened before people got de-modded. I believe I have been as respectful and patient as can be expected given the baseless accusations that have been made against me merely for sharing my opinions in a neutral way. I respect your point of view and if there had been a consensus I could have referred to anywhere, I would have moderated to that consensus and encouraged other moderators to do the same, despite what my personal preferences might have been. I think this was an extremely ugly event that was not handled well, and kind people were disrespected and hurt for no one's gain.