That’s what makes it a privilege.

Completely wrong. You can still be vegan even if you aren’t able to live without being forced to use animal products. The literal definition of veganism includes “as far as is possible and practicable” for reason. Please make sure you read the sidebar as that distinction is very important. It allows all the things that you’ve outlined in your comment as acceptable under the definition of veganism.

Archive link as it was paywalled for me

Yeah but bees always make more than they need and the humans can leave them plenty of honey to survive winter

What gives us the right to exploit them because they’re good workers?

https://yvfi.ca/honey

Your not killing a baby chicken every time you eat an egg.

While this could be argued there is nuance to this. Do you know what happens to the male chickens in egg slavery yards? Many baby chickens are killed in the production of said egg.

http://yvfi.ca/eggs

I don’t hate vegans at all, I hate people that are pretentious assholes about being vegan

Which is zero vegans.

You can only comment here under the guise of good faith for so long. You’re trying to bait a certain response so that you can “prove” a point and put words in other people’s mouths.

Like naeva said comments by nonvegans are allowed. The rule doesn’t explicitly preclude anyone who isn’t vegan from engaging in conversation. What it does not allow is for bad faith comments, strawmen arguments (carnist rhetoric and the like), and those that are hostile to vegans (antivegans) to come here and as the OP would put it “meatsplain”.

I remove comments that are advocating for animal abuse, carnist propaganda, speciesism, and those made by antivegans.

Discussions about veganism here are heavily skewed as vegans are outnumbered vastly and it tends to be a sensitive topic due to cognitive dissonance. This makes it so that actual discussion is very hard as it often gets overun by reactionary takes and hostility to empathy.

Pinning posts has not helped in the past as most people don’t read it or refuse to listen to the message before commenting here.

It should be called the Victorian Biohazard Bill, but it just doesn’t portray us as biosecurity terrorists as much

It’s protected in the UK

It protects all religions and a wide range of philosophical beliefs including atheism, humanism, agnosticism, veganism and pacifism.

Edit: Found it

https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/mr-j-casamitjana-costa-v-the-league-against-cruel-sports-3331129-2018

https://vegantheoryclub.org/

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A screenshot of a post by a user “Brusswole Sprouts” with the handle “@swolesprouts”. The post reads as follows:

I’ve been vegan for over 10 years and I still don’t understand why it’s acceptable to make fun of vegans in social settings while you would never make fun of someone eating halal or not drinking for religious or cultural reasons.

Why is vegan culture less deserving of your respect?

Pictures of text should have accompanying alt text. I’ll see if we can add that as a rule

I can’t go vegan because of the vegans 🙄

Literally 1984

There should be a website up then. It’s in like a month. More info can be found probably at !canvas@toast.ooo. There’s also a matrix group which is how I found out (I don’t know the link sorry)

Last year it was like lemmy’s version of reddit’s r/place, but cooler. It’s happening again this year, not sure if there will be any changes to it other than there will be less pixels this time.

We shouldn’t have to lock posts. I’ve appointed new mods such that there shouldn’t be any issues when I’m not watching.

Ah yes, the carnists coming into the comments in good faith ™️ to explain how the vegans are actually animal abusers never ceases to amaze me! Please kindly continue commenting so that you can be permanently banned from the community!

Edit: Also, OP getting reported twice for “animal abuse”… seriously the moderator reports are all carnists reporting vegans on the vegan community 🤯

What happened?

I went to bed and didn’t lock the post. I’m the only active mod and my timezone seems to make it so that I am sleeping during these kinds of posts.

Be advised, I’m the only active mod on this community and I just saw this thread. !vegan@lemmy.ml has quicker mod action (in my opinion) as well as less carnist trolling

Thanks for posting here @hamid@vegantheoryclub.org! I’ll add these to this community’s sidebar.

(Also, really like your lemmy instance’s default theme!)