They’re overpaying for them. Which them makes companies calculate “we could sell a lot of product at small profit margins to the general vegetarian and flexi public” vs. “we could not invest in production capacity and charge affluent urban vegans and arm and a leg” and guess what they’re going for.
The reason why there’s tons of almond etc. milks costing 3-4 times as much per litre as actual milk is not because of subsidies. It’s because vegans are stupid enough to buy 20 cents of ingredients for that price.
androogee@midwest.social 4 months ago
I’m not even a vegetarian and I’ve heard way more meat eaters fucking constantly bitching about vegans than I’ve ever heard vegans being annoying about it.
Just feels like whiny baby bullshit honestly.
Nelots@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Tbf, there are way more non-vegans than there are vegans. I feel like this should be expected to an extent.
lastweakness@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ve been told that before. Not being vegan implies you support terrible breeding practices which makes you a rapist… apparently…
Longpork3@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
Nobody likes the practice, the difference is that vegans take a moral stand and choose not to contribute to it, while meat eaters shrug it off and continue to pay the people committing those acts, because they’d rather cows get anally fisted and forcibly impregnated than drink a milk with a different flavour.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Your comment actually made me wonder if the Lemmy community’s vegan/vegetarian communities are better, and I need to look it up!
The reddit ones seem very hostile when I tried to participate as a person who eats meat but mostly has a vegetarian diet (and my wife is fully vegetarian)
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
They are not.
Never, ever disclose that you are not a level 5 vegan or else they will scream at you while pretending that you are the problem.