Before tractors, almost the entire food chain involved animal slavery, since farms used draft animals. For that matter, even transportation was based on animal slavery (horses). Many of the sustainable and high performance fabrics like wool, silk, and leather are now replaced by synthetic fossil-derived plastics. But petroleum is also an animal product.

To be vegan, is to choose fossilized animal products and services over fresh.

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    Not talking about eating meat, that’s vegetarianism. Many animals eat grass or waste products, like chickens and pigs.

    Veganism as a rejection of all animal products and services, is a full embrace of petroleum.

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      But petroleum isn’t just plants, it also includes organic matter from animal corpses. Think before you say these things, Mitch.

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        It’s a shower thought not a thesis.

        Vegans reject wool and feathers because of animal servitude. The alternative is synthetic polyester fiber.

        Vegans reject draft animals and horse riding in favor of internal combustion.

        Vegans reject natural local animal trans fats for coconut and palm oil shipped around the world by burning oil, and sometimes harvested by monkey slaves anyway.

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          LOL yes, even from here you can still smell the reddit. Say the sky is blue and somebody will object because it’s not always, and maybe even go down a rabbit hole because the sky includes outer space, which is black, and also glowing stars of many colors. And ur mom!