Veggie Regular

Join Date: Jul 2016
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This is inaccurate and I'm trying to figure out where you got this info from.
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It's only inaccurate if you are unaware that much of the world is not beholden to Western definitions of veg*nism. Perhaps we should go to India and school them on how they got it wrong.
I'm sure that they will be happy to toss out a few thousand years of their veg*n culture once some white dude explains to them that the cult of vegan is the supreme authority on such matters. |
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In using the term veg*n, you are combining vegetarianism and veganism. Are you seriously saying that, in India, veganism is widespread and/or has a long history? If you google 'veganism in India', that certainly doesn't seem to be the case. Unless you are redefining veganism to fit in with practices in India and redefining veganism is of course what this thread is all about?
Not sure why the colour of Donald Watson's skin should matter any more than the skin colour of Buddha and Jesus... Lv |
I am saying that millions of Indians both inside and outside India are practicing what would easily pass for what Westerners call veganism. There are millions more Indians who are practicing vegetarians. Both of these practices in India are ancient. Cherry picking and then repackaging what someone else has been doing for millennia and renaming it, well why not.
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Race does matter. The British, and the West in general feel free to appropriate what they like and condemn what they don't -and then have the nerve to explain how members of that culture don't know what they're talking about. "This is inaccurate and I'm trying to figure out where you got this info from.", indeed. It's not even a question, how patronizing.
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Strict vegetarians do not eat onions, garlic or eggs was the comment challenged. I think it's fair to say that this is wrong internationally, not just in UK/US but in most places like Europe and South America also.
Regarding India, http://kurma.net/essays/e19.html has some detail on this. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-onion-...by-some-Hindus This would seem to be a spiritual/religious matter. If you look at the second thread regarding the taboo or minimized use of onion and garlic, there are two posts from Indians saying it is not non-veg to eat these, but done for other reasons. So I think whether onion and garlic are avoided explicitly within the definition of vegetarianism, or for other reasons, in India, would seem to be a grey area. |
I really don't understand this psychology, that you are less likely to become a vegan because of certain other vegans. Your morals are about you, not other people. Becoming vegan isn't like joining the Church of Latter Day Saints, there aren't membership dues, no one will come check up on you if you miss a couple of weekly services, and you won't experience formal banishment for eating cheese pizza then deciding you want to re-commit yourself to being vegan. It strikes me as a pathetic excuse, or a passive aggressive insult. Just admit that you don't want to be vegan.
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My own emotional state will not permit me to fight with vegans and struggle along in a world built for omnivores at the same time, though, so as much as I'd love to be here to be supportive to others in the way you were supportive to me, I will have to leave you again for a time.
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