re: #229 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sam Bankman-Freid is complaining about the lack of vegan food whilst he sits in prison for massive fraud and fleeing the country.

Vegans at BlueSky are coming in to defend him (not the fraud, but how he’s being mistreated by the prison system for not offering him vegan food options).

Bankman-Freid is reported to only be taking a bread-and-water diet. (Presumably the bread is vegan.)

Vegans care more about the prison conditions for a vegan rather than you know, massive fraud and fleeing the country.

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This is an ironic accusation considering the conversation just yesterday about Marsha Blackburn accusing Democrats of forcing everyone to be vegan against their will. Here, you are saying that vegans ought to be forced against their will to do something they find morally repugnant.

Bear in mind that “vegans” (hardly a monolithic group) are objecting to prisoners – in general – being forced to eat meat when in jail. And although I’m sure SBF is guilty of fraud, he’s also only an *accused* criminal and that anyone else accused of a crime might be subject to the same treatment. Which again, vegans find morally repugnant.

I can’t imagine any other group, religious or otherwise, forced to do things like that. You and I would scream if an atheist were forced to pray in prison. Or if kids were forced to declare fealty to Donald Trump in schools.

I live in a society in which “vegans” are routinely accused of wanting to force our beliefs on everyone else, or being preachy by just existing and telling other people about how we choose to live. And yet in this thread, there are several people who want to force vegans to eat meat against our will, solely based on any accusation of a crime that puts us in a jail long enough for us to require eating there.