In much of the local food writing I’ve read, people emphasize the pleasures of eating while shying away from talking about the suffering of food animals, as well as the suffering of the humans at the bottom of our food supply chain, and what our food system is doing to our prospects for survival.
It’s not either/or, but maybe vegan activism gets its long term viability more thru appeals to morality than thru appeals to sensual pleasure. Perhaps we’ve internalized consumerism to such a degree that even activists sometimes end up writing and talking as if we’re doing ads.
It may be that moral reasoning involves making conscience, compassion, and empathy a higher priority than sensual pleasure. That’s maybe a pattern throughout the ages not limited to vegan activism.
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