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I’m sorry to say that a vegan lifestyle is black and white
This is interesting to me as a non vegan, because if I were to become vegan I wouldn't, for example, just throw away my leather belt which has many years of service left as that is a waste. But I would still be a vegan, at least in my mind I would be, and I think a lot of others would accept that I was vegan despite my continued use of an animal product I had for years before becoming vegan.
Not trying to be argumentative, but I think how people define the term and themselves can be more complex.
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I totally understand that viewpoint!
When we moved to being vegan, it started with just food and quickly evolved to incorporate toiletries, cleaning products and clothes. I ended up donating all my non-vegan but good condition clothes to charity shops and friends, so they at least weren’t wasted.
I think that’s the difference between vegan and plant based really. One is a consuming lifestyle choice and the other is a considered way of eating. Neither is wrong or better, it’s up to the people involved. You weren’t argumentative at all, fyi!
RunRabbitRun
The wine wasn’t drunk because it wasn’t vegan. End of. I find it weird to say that you were amused though.
Had it been a dinner party for coeliac sufferers and a wheat item was discovered, that too would have been treated like a live bomb, but I’m guessing that wouldn’t be as funny due it being a medical rather than ethical issue?
The most important thing, I think, is to respect other people’s life choices without assimilating or mocking them. I know you guys eat eggs from your own chooks and consider that to be part of your definition of veganism, but I’m sorry to say that a vegan lifestyle is black and white: no animal products at all. Plant based is another matter and might not tickle you so much.
Not being deliberately obtuse here or asking for a “#cba” response, just suggesting that a more empathic approach might be better.