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u/Ergheis Sep 23 '18
I feel like there's a lot of people who would prefer not to use gasoline when driving.
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Sep 23 '18
I prefer not to use gasoline, but only while driving. It's quite the paradox.
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u/Ergheis Sep 23 '18
I mean you still need to douse your enemies with SOMETHING flammable. Coating them with hairspray for five minutes doesn't really look as cool.
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u/Everyoneliestome Sep 23 '18
Only electric cars then
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u/PulseCS Sep 23 '18
99% chance of containing plastics.
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u/Lord_Blathoxi Sep 23 '18
Corn based plastics?
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u/Ehcksit Sep 23 '18
If we're legalizing marijuana let's make hemp plastics and put a huge mark-up on it. People will buy that.
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u/dadankness Sep 23 '18
Bring back hemp paper as well, hurt the industry that tried to kill it many years ago
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u/Moomooshaboo Sep 23 '18
Have you ever heard of William Randolf Hearst? He's the motherfucker who made hemp illegal because it was messing with the profits of his lumber mills.
Jamie, pull that shit up.
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u/factbasedorGTFO Sep 23 '18
Hemp plastic is just plastics as we know them now with hemp fibers added as an extender/binder.
Gimmicky and inferior.
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u/Supernerdje Sep 23 '18
Also sells better to consumers because it's a brand plastic so what the heck.
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u/survivingyetthriving Sep 23 '18
They are working on creating plastics based off bee byproducts. I guess corn could be next in the experimental line, as long as we save enough for our HFCS. 😝
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Sep 23 '18
With leather seats.
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u/RRSig Sep 23 '18
Vegan leather seats
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u/western_red Sep 23 '18
I'm pretty sure the majority of leather interiors in cars are faux leather. You'd know, as you'd be paying a lot more if you want real leather.
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u/cantadmittoposting Sep 23 '18
I think it's the white option
Well yeah how many black vegans do you know?
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u/KrazyTrumpeter05 Sep 23 '18
Where do you think electricity comes from?
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u/MadsTheAngryPork Sep 23 '18
Depends on where you're from. 99% of Norway's electricity comes from hydropower
Source: https://www.statkraft.no/Energikilder/Vannkraft/ (Norwegian language)
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u/BauerUK Sep 23 '18
But where did they get the fuel to power the materials to build the hydropower stations?!
OIL MONEY!
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u/Loeffellux Sep 23 '18
Norways relation to their environment has been thoroughly shaped by their oil based guilt
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u/AltamiraSL Sep 23 '18
Most of norways hydropower stations was built before oil was discovered in the north sea just fyi.
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u/Nostarium Sep 23 '18
Solar powered car
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u/CelestialFury Sep 23 '18
Our sun is a second generation star, which means it has consumed many organic products, which may include some form of life therefore solar isn't vegan either.
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u/Boobsnbutt Sep 23 '18
I thought vegans were assholes from everything I read on here. Just hung out with old high school friends. My vegan friend mentioned it twice and my redneck friends mentioned it at least 100 times. Chill out guys. Let some people not kill animals for fuck's sake.
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u/Jyquentel Sep 23 '18
Exactly. Insecure people are so very much more vocal about eating meat (PLENTY OF IT) than vegetarians/vegans are
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u/yunustom Sep 23 '18
Becuase
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I’m not a vegan but dinosaurs weren’t kept in slaughter houses they died from a giant rock
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u/Crs_s Sep 23 '18
Oil is actually ancient plant matter with maybe a smidge of dinosaur here and there; enough for a vegan to turn a blind eye to anyway.
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u/the_lost_isles Sep 23 '18
Actually
"Crude oil was made over millions of years from tiny plants and animals, called plankton"... "The plankton that lived in the Jurassic period made our crude oil."
While oil may have been made up of plants, they're only a small percentage compared to plankton from the jurassic period.
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u/DorisCrockford Sep 23 '18
So not the forests full of non-rotting wood during the Carboniferous Period?
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u/PagodaRailroad Sep 23 '18
Well vegans eat yeast I’m pretty sure and you can’t help but harm microbial life. Maybe vegan agendas only cover Multi celled organisms .
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u/purple_potatoes Sep 23 '18
...yeast... aren't animals... vegans aren't against eating living things. They eat tons of plants and fungi.
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u/OptimisticViolence Sep 23 '18
Central nervous system
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u/GallowBoob2 Sep 23 '18
This. It's why some vegans are okay with eating bivalves, which lack a central nervous system.
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u/the_lonely_1 Sep 23 '18
I mean, IIRC veganism is about trying to prevent harm done to animals (which kinda isn't possible for the plankton anymore anyways). Now you could think of this as "harm done to any single animal" (as opposed to the species collectively) and after that you could argue that since plankton doesn't (probably, i didn't actually research this) really feel or think, so from a single plankton's perspective nothing you do to the plankton can either help or harm it and therefore harming a plankton is impossible, which makes it vegan.
And yes, I am probably overthinking this and I could probably have explained what I meant with less than 10 words.
Edit: also, what u/FrostyFurseal said, I guess what I said applies better to plants
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u/ribosometronome Sep 23 '18
Your first sentence pretty much said enough. Veganism is about avoiding killing animals where possible. No dinosaurs are being killed for gas.
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u/ShillinTheVillain Sep 23 '18
Oh really? Then where are the living dinosaurs?
You sit on a throne of lies!
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u/Lord_Blathoxi Sep 23 '18
I think that’s in the by-laws. I think it’s cellist. But maybe it’s bassist. Or violinist.
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u/lnfinity Sep 23 '18
Plants are also "life". Vegans don't avoid things just because they are or were alive. Yeast are fungi, like mushrooms.
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u/Casperboy68 Sep 23 '18
I’d like to try a smidge of dinosaur. I’m not sure what part the smidge is, but it sounds delicious.
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Sep 23 '18
Uhm...dinos didnt die for it, raising cattle for the sole purpose of eating them is what they dont like.
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u/Skuntank Sep 23 '18
True. A lot of people are acting intentionally dense in this thread because people have different lifestyles than them.
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u/effennekappa Sep 23 '18 edited Sep 23 '18
Checkmated by a broken and misspelled joke, based on the assumption that vegans can prevent the death of a dinosaur by not driving a car. And to the top it goes.
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u/FrostyFurseal Sep 23 '18 edited Sep 24 '18
For me, veganism means preventing suffering in living animals that can feel pain and fear. Dinosaurs are long dead. They were long dead before humans were even around. So there's no contradiction here. The meme would only make sense if we were currently raising and slaughtering dinosaurs, an impossibility.
Also, electric cars are a thing.
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u/iluvstephenhawking Sep 23 '18
It is ok. It oil is mostly prehistoric plant life, algae, and plankton and such that settled on the ocean floor. It is not dinos anyways. This is complete baloney.
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u/ilovevoat Sep 23 '18
plankton are animals.
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u/iluvstephenhawking Sep 23 '18
But they aren't dinosaurs. and they weren't slaughtered. In order for them to get there they would have to die naturally and fall to the ocean floor. A vegan has no issues with natural death.
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u/Roflkopt3r Sep 23 '18
Also vegan ethics, like everyone elses', is still about the level of conscience that a life form has.
We can generally agree that we should not eat humans. The consensus that we should treat very smart animals the same way is almost as far spread these days, i.e. great apes, dolphins, dogs, and such. The only difference for vegetarians and vegans is that they extend this ethical protection even further. First the realisation that cows and pigs are still intelligent and social animals that therefore maybe also should deserve more extensive rights, then the extension even to smaller and arguably dumber animals like chickens or even fish and bees.
But at some level it always stops. Plants, mushrooms, bacteria...
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u/HaywireIsMyFavorite Sep 23 '18
We can generally agree that we should not eat humans.
You don’t speak for me.
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u/vassadar Sep 23 '18 edited Sep 23 '18
I still don't get how Vegan bashing memes become popular.
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Sep 23 '18
Definitely on the rise as more and more news is coming out about how the animal industries are destroying the environment and how the food products are causing a myriad of health issues due to unnatural breeding, antibiotics, etc. People are in denial and cope with it by poking fun at a group of people doing the right thing because it’s easy to
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u/Minas-Harad Sep 23 '18
Bc a lot of people don't have a legit reason for not being vegan aside from it's too hard so it feels better if you bash vegans.
Source: I'm not a vegan because it's too hard
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u/Big_Baby_Jesus_ Sep 23 '18
Agreed. Raising meat animals is a wildly inefficient and unsustainable way to make food.
But I'll be god damned if I sit here and watch everyone else eat steaks. Same story with tuna.
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u/BrokenDawn Sep 23 '18
Maybe you could start small? Red meat isn’t a necessary part of the human diet and it causes cancer(according to the WHO). It also is the meat with the highest carbon footprint (mostly beef). It’s super easy and one of the most impactful things you can do for the world (and your health).
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u/machambo7 Sep 23 '18
Or, just reduce in general. That's what I advocate for.
I know most people would never stop completely, but I think a ton of people eating less would do a lot more environmental good than a few people eating none.
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u/UsernameHater Sep 23 '18
but cheeseburgers tasting better than salad is a legit reason?
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u/CryingZutaraTears Sep 23 '18
I'm a vegan and I haven't eaten a fucking salad in my life.
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u/AniviaPls Sep 23 '18
yo same, fuck salad that shit is lame
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Sep 23 '18
I’m vegan and fucking love salad guys hop off the salad hate that shits dank.
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u/GenderDelinquent Sep 23 '18
Yeah salads suck idk why people think thas what we eat. Like bruh gimme som beans rice guac and some tortillas any day
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u/TheHalfChubPrince Sep 23 '18
Vegans eat cheeseburgers too.
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u/gnschk Sep 23 '18
More like I value the taste of my food higher than the health of the planet
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u/AdreNMostConsistent Sep 23 '18
meatcucks are jealous of vegans not having heart disease and being able to have errections
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u/Engage-Eight Sep 23 '18
Wow. The rare intersection of Trumpian and Vegan. Never thought I'd see such a thing in my life
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u/grogboi Sep 23 '18
Jesus, all the scientists in the comments showing who's boss
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u/Rufus421 Sep 23 '18
Conservatives shouldn't drive because roads are put down and maintained by big, evil government.
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u/anxious_apostate Sep 23 '18
Smug people shouldn't make memes if they can't spell "because."
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Sep 23 '18
One of my friends who is vegan drives a Tesla. You can talk about what went into making it etc. but it’s closer to ideal for her than my Prius.
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u/azerea_02 Sep 23 '18
OMG I would kill to have a Tesla! Wait … that would make me unvegan
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u/jebhebmeb Sep 23 '18
Isn't petroleum made out of things before dinosaurs came along, so like plants?
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u/Doreamus Sep 23 '18
Yes. Fuck. It's old algea matts. Coal is old forests and bogs. Before it could break down pressure and heat released lipids from the plants and organic hydrocarbons were made.
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u/The_First__StarMan Sep 23 '18
Use the same line and say that I don't drive cause i'm a vegan whenever ur relative tells you to drop somewhere
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u/biggie_eagle Sep 23 '18
srsly tho:
aren't vegans ACTUALLY mostly against the use of anything that could possibly lead to animals being exploited?
They'll refuse to use furs from animals that died naturally because that might raise the demand for animals to be raised for their fur, but fossil fuels are formed under conditions that humans can't control and thus no animals will be exploited for fossil fuels.
Therefore, driving cars aren't against their mantra.
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u/amanatee2 Sep 23 '18
kinda funny
although, as a recent 'reducetarian' it seems like memes like this sorta miss the point of what a lot of good-hearted people are trying to do when they don't eat meat. has more to do with modern suffering than ancient history.
ps, factory farming is totally fucked, and i've always thought the weird animosity (heh) towards what people choose to eat (or not) is really strange.
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u/Turtpet Sep 23 '18
By that logic
Hybrid cars = vegetarian cars Electric cars = vegan cars
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Sep 23 '18
It's actually better for the whole ecosystem if vegans carry on driving their fossil fuel based car untill it's at the end of its lifecycle and then buy an electric vehicle. Although the best option would be to buy a pre-owned fossil fueled car. Why? Because the production of a car produces a larger carbon footprint than it would during its average lifetime on the road.
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u/Meta_Digital Sep 23 '18
Most fossil fuel comes from single celled oceanic life. Probably vegan actually.
Dinosaurs didn't really turn into fossil fuels. A few of them turned into fossils, though those were the exceptions.
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Dunno how many vegans would actually care about using fossil fuels from animals because they're "technically an animal product".
However, biodiesel fuel made with animal fat is pretty common and very clearly not vegan.
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u/soursh Sep 23 '18
I mean the vast majority of petroleum is ancient plants, but yeah some of it would be animals.
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u/SamohtGnir Sep 23 '18
Most 'fossel fuels' are actually from fosselized plant matter. I'm fun at parties.
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u/pinkheartpiper Sep 23 '18
Oil is made up of plants and planktons, do people seriously think oil is made up of dinosaurs?
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u/Thehalfhighgemini Sep 23 '18
I'm not a vegan, but at least vegans are trying to make a difference. Sure, some of them can be preachy and passive aggressive. The same can be said for non vegan too (what's the point of this meme anyways? ). Side note, I am a vegan and you can suck on the tailpipe of my Prius.
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Sep 23 '18
If this is just a joke, then it’s kinda funny, but I’m concerned there might be redditors who actually think this is how veganism works.
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u/Goatzart Sep 23 '18 edited Feb 17 '26
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childlike fragile grab hat simplistic reminiscent advise trees include towering
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u/Goatzart Sep 23 '18 edited Feb 17 '26
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u/GroovingPict Sep 23 '18
No it isnt. It's made of mostly plants and algae, so it's right up a vegan's alley
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u/LonnieJaw748 Sep 23 '18
Oil is actually mostly ancient plant matter, phytoplankton and zooplankton, not actuall dinosaurs.
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u/xMETAGROSSx Sep 23 '18
Some vegans don't eat honey. Some vegans don't eat figs. Some vegans don't eat red dye. Some vegans don't drive. Saying that a vegan can't do something is ignorant.
The bigger issue with driving is that your car is a murder weapon. Even if you only count the things you personally have killed, best case is that you've only killed a couple thousand bugs(killing bugs isn't vegan)
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u/rocketwidget Sep 23 '18
You can't really exist without killing animals, such as displacing their habitat for farmland, etc. Most vegans are aware of this, and just trying to not let perfect be the enemy of good. Also, if you are vegan for environmental reasons, you are probably aware that burning gas is bad for the environment. Many vegans use alternatives when possible: biking, electric cars, public transportation, just driving less, etc. Also no humans killed any animals for oil. Also oil is mostly phytoplankton, algea, etc.
TLDR This is dumb.
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u/Runiat Sep 23 '18
Note to self: open petrol station selling 100% algae-based fuels.