Comment on Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance?

otherbarry@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

John Robbins would have inherited Baskin-Robbins (he was the co-founder’s son). Grew up quite well off and could have been wealthy through the rest of his life but he chose to walk away from the company due to all the industrialized factory farming and general animal cruelty surrounding the dairy industry. Back then ice cream was all dairy products.

Eventually Baskin-Robbins itself was sold to a multi-national corp & was then sold/acquired a few more times.

vegnews.com/the-untold-vegan-story-of-baskin-robb…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robbins_(author)

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