The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.

An attorney for FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried said in federal court Tuesday his client has to subsist on bread, water and peanut butter because the jail he’s in isn’t accommodating his vegan diet.

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    1 year ago

    In these comments, People who:

    • think vegetarian is close enough to vegan.
    • don’t realise vegan items are no longer vegan if they’re for example, cooked in butter.
    • want prisoners to rot in jail from the inside out, literally.
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      Do you really expect a jail to cook things in butter? If they could get away with it, they would probably cook things in waste oil from the next garage.

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        True enough, but it was just an example. More likely something like mashed potato will have milk or other dairy. Even vegetarian nutriloaf might not qualify as vegan.

        Point is not everything that starts out vegan ends up vegan on the plate.

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          It isn’t? What do they put in there to make it non-vegan? The whole idea was to get rid of the expensive animal parts…

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            They usually contain buttermilk or whey (on top of vegetable fat of some kind). They won’t be vegan unless they specifically say they are.

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      Seriously, this comment section makes me want to leave Lemmy forever. Why would I build a community with these people?

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        Unfortunately this isn’t just Lemmy, or even Reddit. People irl feel this way.

        Actually, to Lemmy’s credit, I’ve seen way more pushback to that mentality here than I’ve seen anywhere else.

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        It’s like Reddit all over again. Guess we shouldn’t have too high hopes for humanity.

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          I will say that it gives me hope that so many people are pushing back in threads like this. I’ve been trying a lot of platforms in recent months, and places like Tildes, HackerNews, and even Beehaw seem to be better able to have constructive conversations about heated topics. So we’re not alone!