2024-08-08

🔗 Vegans are radical. That’s why we need them | Vox

Despite decades of advocacy, vegans and veganism remain deeply unpopular, even detested. Many influential animal activists are now debating a question that would have once seemed absurd: Is it worth the movement’s precious time and resources to keep advocating for meatless diets, an apparently lost cause?

Our relationship to our fellow species is deeply unethical and violent. Not just in terms of the animals that are eaten but in the entirety of our relationship to the natural world.

We think ourselves special but, for the most part, we're just cruel.