Funny but absolutely false
I personally found it funny, and I’m a vegan. I don’t know what is up with the dislikes, as it is clearly a joke. Can someone explain?
- Arnold is mostly vegan since 2017, and was even part of a documentary on the misconceptions of plant protein
- Just look at Patrick Baboumian, who is also a vegan (appeared in the same documentary)
Isn’t vegan like all or nothing? Can you be mostly vegan? I’m far from vegan but eat maybe 50-60% veg, rice, pasta. Am I mostly vegan? I think that describes a lot of people.
tl;dr -
From my experience talking and traveling with others, there isn’t a hard-and-fast set of rules to being vegan. I guess you could call it a spectrum.For instance, some vegans will swear that any leather product whatsoever is bad; others would argue that leather products made decades ago are fine because they’ve already been made and you’re simply doing the reuse/recycle thing and not letting it go to waste.
Another example is honey: there are ethical ways to extract honey from hives that helps the hive in some ways, and not-so-good ways that end up killing large swathes of bees. As a result, some vegans swear any honey is bad, but others will disagree and be OK with it under strict circumstances.
From my perspective, it’s all about who you support with your wallet, which extends now beyond just animals but to nature as a whole, in terms of what the companies we buy from do with their profits. Even reaching to topics like gen AI and how the capitalists are extracting resources for their models. There are ways to train models that don’t steal other peoples’ work, etc. I’m against the big players shoving down our throats, but I’m not opposed to training a model on public domain works, or even a pool of my own work, and then utilizing local generation as a form of automation based on how I like to do things.
I also take a pretty staunch health stance against eating animal proteins just because of factory farming, but if I were to be a refugee living in the woods I wouldn’t be against hunting and killing a small and rapidly reproducing animal like a rabbit to survive (so long as I’m doing everything from the kill to field dressing, etc.). I will avoid it as long as I have other methods to get the nutrition my body needs, though.
I’m annoyed by the notion that our bodies somehow need animal protein to build muscles. What we need is a specific mix of amino acids. Animal proteins generally provide a similar mix, but that just means that eating meat is the easy route. It is definitely possible to mix plant proteins to provide our bodies with everything they need (at least in terms of proteins).
And honestly, I’m just tired of animal suffering, man.
And honestly, I’m just tired of animal suffering, man.
This and also factory farming being on a similar level of resource usage to cryptocurrencies (not sure how it stacks up to gen AI data centers)
I’ll try, and for the record, I’m neutral/meh on this meme and not a vegan.
My thinking is that jokes often rely on something unexpected as the source of humor, and while the skinny arms were unexpected (and funny to me), the captions feel like a miss. If there was a widespread understanding that vegans were emaciated and skinny, this could have been funny because it was unexpectedly accurate. My personal experience with vegans doesn’t match that idea. Alternatively, if the idea of putting down vegans was unexpected, it could have been funny from that angle, but alas, I hear plenty of complaining whenever veganism comes up in rhetoric. I don’t personally think it’s offensive, it’s just a meh/10 joke
Arnold is vegan
Apparently his diet is only 70-80% plant-based which, as far as I understand veganism, means he is 0% vegan.
