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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!
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I think that’s the difference between vegan and plant based really.
That's an interesting point, I've never really thought of the subtle distinction between the two. I guess a lot of people use the terms to mean the same thing but for "full"* vegans it's an important distinction.
*not the best way of describing it but hopefully you know what I mean.
Arducius
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.