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One real-world example is Coca Cola [0]. While most of the consumers probably don't care, influence of a small but committed minority made Coca Cola kosher, ha
by groestl 8y ago
One real-world example is Coca Cola [0].
While most of the consumers probably don't care, influence of a small but committed minority made Coca Cola kosher, halal, and vegan.
[0] https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/the-real-thing-how-coke-became-kosher https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/the-re...
- johnday 8y agoI'm not sure veganism counts as a superstition.
- ekianjo 8y agoI guess it depends on the point of view because there are several versions of veganism out there and not every single of them is as rational as the other. If veganism is concerned about not "eating any kind of animal product", then it's clearly fictitious once you consider the fact that animals such as insects/mites leave residues wherever they go, and in stuff like pure fruit juices there is always a chance of % of insect content because of the nature of production methods and infestation. Now, if it is defined it veganism as "reducing animal suffering", it makes more sense but then it makes less sense for them to be so strict from a dietary standpoint - for example they could allow themselves to eat eggs from free roaming chickens feeding themselves from herbs and insects they find if what matters most is the reduction of industrial exploitation of chickens in cages.
- groestl 8y agoLet's just say conviction (in this case, it was also just a side effect).
- saagarjha 8y agoThere are many people who are vegans for religious reasons, just like other religious dietary restrictions.
- chmod775 8y agoBy my calculation just about half (maybe just 1/3rd) of the world population doesn't eat pork for various reasons, and Coca Cola is an international brand, so be careful who you call a minority. Of course I just added practitioners of religions that forbid the consumption of pork together and I'm aware some of those eat pork anyways (because they don't adhere to it too closely), but still: It will be a sizeable market.
- saagarjha 8y agoA minority almost always refers to a group that comprises less than half of the population, so I think the label was apt.
- sebastianconcpt 8y agoWell noticed. SJWs and the communist movement as a whole operate in this way. They infiltrate every institution they can touch and infect it with their hysteria giving the impression that the whole population thinks in the way they do. It's the same as in a loony in a family. The whole family of sane people is around and pending of his/her lunacy, hence controlled by it. Well this is the same but at international scale.
- dang 8y agoCan you please not take HN threads on ideological flamewar tangents like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17950484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17950484? They're off topic here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- sebastianconcpt 8y agoI didn't bring it as ideological flamewar material but as real psychosocial phenomenon that has truly similar dynamics to what was in discussion.
- dang 8y agoOk, but if you toss lit matches at a petrol station, it doesn't much matter what your reasoning was. The important thing is the effect.
- sebastianconcpt 8y agoWhat you are suggesting is that I have to behave politically correct, a form of effective self-censorship, because of the outcome while completely ignoring intellectual curiosity. This is interesting because in the HN guildelines you cited, it specifically says: "Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, and we ban accounts that do it." So how is it that this isn't a double standard?