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It makes a lot more sense when you observe that veg%ans are not opposed to eating meat but rather to killing animals. Witness PETA's push for lab-grown meat re
by colanderman 14y ago
It makes a lot more sense when you observe that veg%ans are not opposed to eating meat but rather to killing animals. Witness PETA's push for lab-grown meat replacements.
That said, many veg%ans (myself included) nevertheless find meat-mimicking products off-putting and prefer lesser-processed protein sources.
- cpeterso 14y agoIs "veg%an" different than "vegan"? I thought this was a typo until you used the same spelling twice. (I'm a vegetarian.)
- biot 14y agoThe SQL statement: select * from diets where name like 'veg%an' Will match both 'vegan' and 'vegetarian'. The '%' wildcard matches any string of zero or more characters.
- chc 14y agoIncidentally, it's more commonly written as veg*n among non-nerds.
- colanderman 14y agoUnfortunately writing it twice causes HN to italicize stuff: vegn vegn :/
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- ars 14y ago> are not opposed to eating meat but rather to killing animals That is not at all true. It may be true for some people, but it's hardly universal. Some people don't like meat, some people don't digest it well, some people avoid it for health reasons. It's only a small subset that avoid meat because they are opposed to killing animals. You can tell based on if they avoid leather as well.
- colanderman 14y agoYes, but based on the GP's question I assume he was focusing his question on the subset that is opposed to killing animals – the other subsets would not seem at odds with their impetus for being veg%an by enjoying fake meat.