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Cashew production typically involves a great deal of suffering from the workers. Avocado and palm kernel production are contributing greatly to deforestation an
by chongli 4y ago
Cashew production typically involves a great deal of suffering from the workers. Avocado and palm kernel production are contributing greatly to deforestation and major habitat loss. Yet all three of these products are considered vegan.
I think the reason people have begun to distance themselves from labels like vegan is that they’re associated with an ideology that is ethically inconsistent. Instead of examining every product and its complete role in society, economics, and in ecosystems, a short-hand is used which may have a lot of unintended consequences.
- pcthrowaway 4y agoThe cashew preparation process often involves exploitative practices that scar the hands of workers who harvest and prepare them. It doesn't always involve these practices (though it's hard to tell which ones don't), and these practices aren't necessarily an order of magnitude worse than the inherent exploitation in the production of almost every other food item which is imported from third-world countries. Some vegans generally try to avoid cashews (and many other products) for this reason. Most don't because the list of things to avoid would leave them with very little to subside on.