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Vegan Athlete Takes Double Gold At World Arm Wrestling Championships (plantbasednews.org)

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[–] threeduck@aussie.zone -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah it's certainly more philosophical than practical. Here's another odd quandary: we as vegans agree that in certain situations, it's okay to kill an animal (our favourite "stuck on an island with a cow" scenario). If people in remote artic areas HAVE to kill and eat animals to live, are they technically vegan? They're avoiding the use of animals as much as is practical?

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Behaviour isn't sufficient to be vegan. A leaf-cutter ant is not vegan, they just coincidentally act in way a vegan might. Likewise, a human stranded on an island with no other animals that they might prey on is not necessarily vegan. However, being in a situation where your life depends on animal consumption (vaccines come to mind as an example we all have to wrestle with) doesn't automatically make you not-vegan. It's an ethical philosophy. If it's not being practiced mindfully, it's just a coincidence.