How do I ethically consume under capitalism? Being vegan is right now one of the only ways I’m being ethical, and that doesn’t yet include buying products that have not been tested on animals. I worry sometimes.
How do I ethically consume under capitalism? Being vegan is right now one of the only ways I’m being ethical, and that doesn’t yet include buying products that have not been tested on animals. I worry sometimes.
Well, IM0 veganism is more about supporting a movement that makes sense rather than trying to make consumption ethical. Even if you buy vegan products there are workers who were exploited in the production of that good, and throughout the whole process until it reached your store.
Supporting veganism or environmentally friendly ways of life is not about consuming ethically but rather transforming the way we live so that they can be applied in a post-capitalistic future.
I think this explanation can be misread as a phylosophy of life more that the movement which support other species’ interests, promoting respect and rights for them.
That’s because veganism is not about “other species’ interests”, that movement to abolish human supremacy is called “antispeciesism”. Veganism is focused on a practice (which can be achieved for many different reasons, not all of which are ethical) not politics.
That what I described is wrongly called “ethical veganism” and yes, anti-specism is one of the objectives.
That veganism is the only veganism as that. The rest are just proteccionism (when it is enviromental), welfarism (based in suffering) and radical-welfarism (I don’t know how this is translated to english but it is a derivative of bienestarism).