Submission statement: The anger at the statement over Billie Eilish’s statement about how eating animals is wrong raises interesting questions about how the left deal with the issue. For neoliberals, eating meat raises questions about agriculture and farming policy, subsidies and climate change.
SuperblackHunter on
Vegan Gains is the deep state
Ladnil on
Can’t read the article but what was the backlash?
phat_geoduck on
Seeing how unhinged the backlash to this was has made me seriously reflect and reconsider my meat consumption habits. Well done, Billie Eilish
mackattacknj83 on
She is correct. You can’t “love” animals and happily contribute to the torture of animals.
n00bi3pjs on
I’m an overly online stan twitter user and I didn’t know about this controversy. Some of the “backlash” mentioned in this article are tweets with like 13 likes lol
Zadujj on
Crazy that killing a living, concious being that clearly doesn’t want to die, is controversial.
YaGetSkeeted0n on
Can’t read past a soft paywall, can someone summarize the purported backlash
fakefakefakef on
Eating animal products is, like many of the choices we make in a complex and interconnected society like ours, a moral compromise that we make for our own comfort. It’s everyone’s individual choice whether to make that compromise, but we shouldn’t pretend it isn’t one.
untoldrain on
I saw someone write on Twitter something like
“non-vegan leftists hate veganism because it’s the only position that requires you to actually change your lifestyle and its not something that can just be virtue-signalled like being “anti-fascism” or “anti-billionaire””
bluegrassguitar on
Vegetarian: “hey don’t eat meat it’s wrong and you’re gross for doing it.”
Everyone else: “hey shut up, thanks.”
Vox: “more disarray on the left!”
PoupeeStupide on
Some people legit can’t survive without being able to blow steam by getting mad over dumb, nonconsequential stuff
Not even talking exclusively about internet outrage culture here
Desperate_Wear_1866 on
Gonna sound like a massive nerd here, but why do people take the political and social opinions of celebrities seriously? Just cause they’re good at singing or acting doesn’t mean they know anything about society beyond that.
(*Not weighing in on the whole vegan debate btw*)
Messyfingers on
Is it partly the usual leftist absolution of anything approaching personal responsibility to blame corporations instead of unfettered meat guzzling?
I remember right before COVID when Joaquin Phoenix’s Oscar speech was mostly about veganism that the man had a very good point, and somehow after another pandemic related to meat consumption (swine flu barely a decade prior) and the on and off bird flu outbreaks after COVID, nobody still takes that seriously.
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Submission statement: The anger at the statement over Billie Eilish’s statement about how eating animals is wrong raises interesting questions about how the left deal with the issue. For neoliberals, eating meat raises questions about agriculture and farming policy, subsidies and climate change.
Vegan Gains is the deep state
Can’t read the article but what was the backlash?
Seeing how unhinged the backlash to this was has made me seriously reflect and reconsider my meat consumption habits. Well done, Billie Eilish
She is correct. You can’t “love” animals and happily contribute to the torture of animals.
I’m an overly online stan twitter user and I didn’t know about this controversy. Some of the “backlash” mentioned in this article are tweets with like 13 likes lol
Crazy that killing a living, concious being that clearly doesn’t want to die, is controversial.
Can’t read past a soft paywall, can someone summarize the purported backlash
Eating animal products is, like many of the choices we make in a complex and interconnected society like ours, a moral compromise that we make for our own comfort. It’s everyone’s individual choice whether to make that compromise, but we shouldn’t pretend it isn’t one.
I saw someone write on Twitter something like
“non-vegan leftists hate veganism because it’s the only position that requires you to actually change your lifestyle and its not something that can just be virtue-signalled like being “anti-fascism” or “anti-billionaire””
Vegetarian: “hey don’t eat meat it’s wrong and you’re gross for doing it.”
Everyone else: “hey shut up, thanks.”
Vox: “more disarray on the left!”
Some people legit can’t survive without being able to blow steam by getting mad over dumb, nonconsequential stuff
Not even talking exclusively about internet outrage culture here
Gonna sound like a massive nerd here, but why do people take the political and social opinions of celebrities seriously? Just cause they’re good at singing or acting doesn’t mean they know anything about society beyond that.
(*Not weighing in on the whole vegan debate btw*)
Is it partly the usual leftist absolution of anything approaching personal responsibility to blame corporations instead of unfettered meat guzzling?
I remember right before COVID when Joaquin Phoenix’s Oscar speech was mostly about veganism that the man had a very good point, and somehow after another pandemic related to meat consumption (swine flu barely a decade prior) and the on and off bird flu outbreaks after COVID, nobody still takes that seriously.
!ping VEGAN