To win over consumers, vegan meat brands will need to underprice their animal-based competition. New reports show this could happen sooner than expected.
Well, looking at prices of products marketed towards vegans in stores, it’s a valid assumption. Of course can you eat cheap if you’re cooking yourself, but if you want to buy ready made food, vegan products are expensive as hell. And yes, it is correct that this is because of capitalism, but it’s still true - for ready made food at least.
Agreed; veganism is not at all more expensive if you cook, but the reality is that cooking requires, education, time, and energy that many people on low incomes do not have. This empathy is missing in vegan discourse; yes, veganism is a matter of life and death, but when you’re speaking to people who haven’t had / do not have the time, opportunity, or critical thinking skills to understand the philosophy and who are on the front-lines of capitalism, working long hours, coming home exhausted physically and mentally, and still living in poverty, bUt BeAnS aNd RiCe ThO just doesn’t cut it. IMHO, this is why vegan advocacy requires a holistic and intersectional approach. Meanwhile, if we do not practice empathy in our discourse, we just further marginalize people and look like elitists and zealots. Veganism and capitalism are incompatible, and praxis towards the former inevitably requires addressing the latter.
Well, looking at prices of products marketed towards vegans in stores, it’s a valid assumption. Of course can you eat cheap if you’re cooking yourself, but if you want to buy ready made food, vegan products are expensive as hell. And yes, it is correct that this is because of capitalism, but it’s still true - for ready made food at least.
Agreed; veganism is not at all more expensive if you cook, but the reality is that cooking requires, education, time, and energy that many people on low incomes do not have. This empathy is missing in vegan discourse; yes, veganism is a matter of life and death, but when you’re speaking to people who haven’t had / do not have the time, opportunity, or critical thinking skills to understand the philosophy and who are on the front-lines of capitalism, working long hours, coming home exhausted physically and mentally, and still living in poverty, bUt BeAnS aNd RiCe ThO just doesn’t cut it. IMHO, this is why vegan advocacy requires a holistic and intersectional approach. Meanwhile, if we do not practice empathy in our discourse, we just further marginalize people and look like elitists and zealots. Veganism and capitalism are incompatible, and praxis towards the former inevitably requires addressing the latter.