Earthling Ed on Billie Eilish outrage
Ed has written a very cathartic piece on his substack today. I'd recommend reading it. I love this quote:
>‘You can’t tell people to go vegan, what about the people in Africa who don’t have access to plants?’
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>‘You can’t tell people to go vegan, what about indigenous people who rely on subsistence hunting to live?’
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>‘You can’t tell people to go vegan, what about the person living in poverty who works three jobs, has no spare time and lives in a food desert?’
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>Funnily enough, it’s never these people who vegans are debating veganism with. It’s also not these people who are on Instagram and TikTok getting outraged by comments made by a celebrity. Instead, vegans are speaking to people who can go vegan but don’t want to, so instead these people appropriate the situations of others in order to justify why they go to In-N-Out Burger. They choose to express faux-outrage on behalf of other people when actually they’re just outraged that someone has dared to place an element of responsibility on their shoulders for a moral issue that they’re complicit in everyday.