I'm concerned, having interacted with some vegan activists on twitter, that their passionate desire to liberate all animals; their opposition to all meat eating, is clouding their judgment as to how we can best go about revolutionizing the current food system, and save the planet.
I get the impression that many vegans consider people like me (who’re mostly vegetarian, but occasionally eat local, organic, grass-fed meat) as just as much their enemy, as the industrial food system. Which is worrying.
And what percentage of vegans are actually opposed to that system? Are many only opposed to the meat-producing part of it?
I feel that there needs to be at least as much emphasis on local/organic/ethical as there is on veganism, which definitely doesn’t necessarily equate to a sustainable, planet-friendly diet.
Ugh. Surely vegans, and meat eaters with a conscience, can and should be united in our opposition to that industrial food system; with its factory farming, slave labor, deforestation, etc?
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