vegan_quilter
If a "dietary-vegan" to me is kind of a way to say, "you know, I don't eat meat or dairy because I want to be healthy, but I'm not all wierd like those animal rights people" ...
Quilter,
I was typing as you wrote but that was exactly what I was in my mind too. Its like saying, "I am vegan but don't expect me to spend all weekend holding up pictures of atrocity pornography of suffering animals and proselyting."
You get the connection with pornography. Both are for people who don't do it but like looking at the pictures of it.
Someone else tried to coin the term "ethical vegan" and legally establish "ethical veganism" as equal to a religion - which failed. In trying to find it, I found from Vegan Outreach;
"Frequently the term "Ethical Vegans" is used to distinguish Vegans for whom Veganism is a religion from the "lifestyle-only vegans".
Really!?! "Frequently!?!" I never hear either used.
WTF is a "lifestyle vegan" ... someone that wears black t-shirts, plastic Doc Martins, has tattoos and goes on animal rights marches ... but still eats meat and dairy!?! Its starting to get silly. Dietary vegan sounds so clumsy and clinical.
The best advertisment I ever saw for vegan was some guy I used to work with who never told anyone he was vegan, never made an issue of it, worked well, was positive and healthy, and had lots of funs. When I asked him is he was a vegan, he always used to deny it and avoid the issue because he hated labels.
He was vegan in that he only eat vegan and we were working in a wholefood wholesaler so he was a 100% ... he was just sick of the petty, superficiality and cultic superiority of it all, and did not want to take flack from others. Some of the more outspoken "vegans" I have met, and I am thinking of this woman I mentioned about who was pushing this dietary term around, were the worst possible advertisement for anything!
May be we can have psycho-vegans too? Although it would be a waste of a perfectly fun terms to use it in this case.
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