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the entire problem with your comment is that you are using vague language and not defining your terms. as a result, you have presented unfalsifiable theory.
no one should believe anything you've written here.
Poor people are adversely affected by green washing because the prices of meat and dairy free alternatives force their families out of the price range. The of introducing plant based alternatives to grocery stores with gentrification in poor areas has been a significant issue that is downplayed because tech-WASPs want to buy out the neighborhoods anyway.
Silicon valley is radiating out of the city and families that have been living in Oakland and Richmond have been getting priced out of the area. It's not that veganism is the problem, it's that veganism is expensive and isn't subsidized while also making traditional food harder to acquire. Since the price has risen for luxury products and the stores are higher scale, prices for basic products also rise. It's happening in Portland and Eugene too, and I'm sure wherever tech is booming.
Again, it's not specifically veganism. It's a bit of a byproduct of the type of people. The traditional families that are being priced out are also vegans and non-dietary restricted families. It's the green washing to force poor families out of areas rich people choose to live, literally weaponizing veganism. Also yt veganism, as if minority families haven't been living vegan for decades already.
Finally, I also don't entirely agree with the other user but a point I think they may have been trying to make is the difference between factory farmed and locally sourced. For some it is about harm to the animals full stop, to which point not all local farms that sell dairy harm their livestock. The goal should be harm reduction so anyone moving away from factory farms to local farms should be encouraged, but it's common to get responses that reject even that, which in turn only bolsters factory farmings position as local farms get further eroded from lack of local support.
All in all, don't let yt veganism replace actual vegan philosophy and please respect indigenous traditional practices. We should be aiming to move back to these practices in the industry to scale it down, not replacing them with soy/almond/oat milk that's 4x more expensive and pricing families out of neighborhoods
more non falsifiable vaguery
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