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The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.

An attorney for FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried said in federal court Tuesday his client has to subsist on bread, water and peanut butter because the jail he's in isn't accommodating his vegan diet.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (5 children)

In these comments, People who:

  • think vegetarian is close enough to vegan.
  • don't realise vegan items are no longer vegan if they're for example, cooked in butter.
  • want prisoners to rot in jail from the inside out, literally.
[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't think prison should be punitive, but I REALLY don't think jail should be punitive. You haven't been proven guilty of anything when you're in jail.

All of the food served in prison/jail is dogshit and it's not ok. Edible food is a human right. People with ethically based diet restrictions should be protected the same way that religiously based diet restrictions are.

Belief in a make believe sky-daddy doesn't make one persons ethical dietary choices more important than another's. Maybe the Satanic Temple can step in and help out the incarcerated vegans. That seems up their alley.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Yes from everything I hear American prisons are all around horrible (by first world standards). This doesn't seem surprising.

You're there to be punished by your freedom of movement being taken away. Not by being forced to eat inedible food.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If prisons are going to get nutritious food, then school children need to get it first.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Yes, you're right. They should both get nutritious food. It's not a competition. Everyone under care of the state should get nutritious, decent food. In fact even those that aren't under care of the state should.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sysco provides the food to both in many cases.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

... Or Aramark

Shudders

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They both should, this should be the bare minimum for being a human existing in society.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How about: at least in my town at police department holding cells, they make you pay and they go get takeout. There’s no legitimate reason to not offer a choice of takeout

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you really expect a jail to cook things in butter? If they could get away with it, they would probably cook things in waste oil from the next garage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

True enough, but it was just an example. More likely something like mashed potato will have milk or other dairy. Even vegetarian nutriloaf might not qualify as vegan.

Point is not everything that starts out vegan ends up vegan on the plate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most margarine isn't vegan either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It isn't? What do they put in there to make it non-vegan? The whole idea was to get rid of the expensive animal parts...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They usually contain buttermilk or whey (on top of vegetable fat of some kind). They won't be vegan unless they specifically say they are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seriously, this comment section makes me want to leave Lemmy forever. Why would I build a community with these people?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unfortunately this isn’t just Lemmy, or even Reddit. People irl feel this way.

Actually, to Lemmy’s credit, I’ve seen way more pushback to that mentality here than I’ve seen anywhere else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like Reddit all over again. Guess we shouldn't have too high hopes for humanity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I will say that it gives me hope that so many people are pushing back in threads like this. I've been trying a lot of platforms in recent months, and places like Tildes, HackerNews, and even Beehaw seem to be better able to have constructive conversations about heated topics. So we're not alone!