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The cynical part of me says that it's pure marketing fluff - like labelling a Turkey as "gluten free" or a bottle of fruit juice as "fat free".
by ThrustVectoring 11y ago
The cynical part of me says that it's pure marketing fluff - like labelling a Turkey as "gluten free" or a bottle of fruit juice as "fat free".
- TeMPOraL 11y agoObligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/641/ https://xkcd.com/641/. I wonder if someone literally did that.
- micheljansen 11y agoThe same way PU (imitation) leather is now marketed as "vegan leather" [1]. [1] http://inhabitat.com/natalie-portman-vegan-shoes/ http://inhabitat.com/natalie-portman-vegan-shoes/
- TeMPOraL 11y agoSo in the near future, instead of "no animals were harmed during production of this video" we'll have vegan movies? :). In a way, maybe it's good that we have one word for the concept.
- StavrosK 11y agoIs human milk vegan? Maybe we can make things with it? This was a vegan comment.
- afarrell 11y agoHuman milk is vegan if extracted consensualy...for some definition of consent that is left as an exercise to the reader.
- misnome 11y agoSomeone tried a few years ago http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12569011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12569011 (Certainly not the first, but the first "big" news story that came to mind)
- DanBC 11y agoHaven't people already called digital vegetarian because it doesn't use gelatin film?
- matt_morgan 11y agoSo it looks like TC made a bigger deal about that than L. does in its own materials. It's not on the home page for example, which is mainly about "feel the difference" and testimonials and the donation aspect.