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no whey. literally. please.

• 2009-03-03 11:32 pm EST
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• Posted in Aminals, Vegan

I just found out that my once-favorite tortilla chips (after not having bought them for months) have whey.

Why whey? Why?

People might be annoyed at vegans: fine, sure, whatever. But when vegans can't even opt out of things they want to opt out of, that's just so… it's like saying you want to ride your bike everywhere to avoid burning fuel, but 95% of bikes have an engine built into it that does nothing but simultaneously needs fuel to burn for the bike to work.

I just don't want to buy into industries that explicitly hurt and exploit sentient beings. Why is that so much to ask for?

Oh well. There are plenty of other tortilla chip brands that don't have stupid fillers. Yay.

Trader Joe's is starting to worry me. Either they're losing all decency or they've got some stupid people doing or dictating store art: please do not show a happy, smiling cow on skates advertising beef jerky as 'food to go'. Unless cows love to be slaughtered [in the worst ways]. It's a superfluous disregard of reality. Happy animals sauntering around in the sun and grass as part of packaging? Fine, I accept it: it's a plausible reality that helps to hide the truth and sell the product. Happy cow on skates? Happy people being marching into concentration camps: they love what's coming to them.

Also, we've become aware of the fact that a lot of organic farming is not vegan. Specifically, their usage of animal manure and/or other animal ‘byproducts’ for fertilizer (either through buying the waste from factory farms or growing animals themselves). I think some people want to force use to narrow where we get our food from so much that we actually die out.

So, here's a new term: veganic. Vegan, organic. It's a strange concept that apparently didn't get humans far ever.

I should do a post that doesn't relate to veganism soon. Not sure that putting these frustrations here are actually helping me cope.

PS—I'm gaining new respect for fish. I've been tricked into thinking they're stupid and decorative.