Repeat after me
-I’m an idiot and wrong.
-Veganism can be made affordable.
-Veganism is fucking cruelty free. That’s what it’s all about.
- Veganism is the best choice for everyone, if everyone did it.
-I’m a fucking asshole for making this completely wrong text post and should shut the hell up now.

Exploiting undocumented immigrants, and other workers is cruelty free?
Nearly 500,000 children as young as six harvest 25 percent of US crops.

But I guess brown people don’t fucking matter. 

People are literally starving in South America because all the Quinoa crop is being exported mainly for white vegans who want to live “cruelty-free” but don’t care about brown people as much as they do about animals.

plus, 4 of the 8 most common food allergies (soy, wheat, peanuts, and tree nuts) are common vegan substitutes.

o shit

i would literally starve to death if i couldn’t eat cheese or meats because my body cannot process nuts as they are too rough on my intestines and cause inflammation

Plus there are vegan articles floating around decrying the use of honey, even though the production and harvest of honey by responsible beekeepers doesn’t hurt the bees at all and is not exploitative, and that misinformation hurts the honey industry, which is TRYING TO SAVE BEES FROM EXTINCTION.

There are a lot of vegans who really put foods like bananas, coconut, and durian fruit on a pedestal but they’re also not cruelty free. Banana plantations are incredibly horrible to their workers and harmful to the environment (more sources are here), pig-tailed macaques monkeys are used to harvest coconuts and are often abused, and to harvest durian shooting and killing squirrels is common (and this goes for a lot of fruit orchards where killing animals is standard to protect crops).

Driscoll’s (who sell fruits like strawberries, blueberries and raspberries) are not cruelty free either because they exploit and underpay their workers in awful working conditions and most of the people who are victims of driscoll’s are mostly latinx people of colour in the US and Mexico.  

Veganism isn’t bad at all, if you can do it then that’s great! However it’s dishonest to say that eating fruits and vegetables are inherently cruelty free when those companies that produce the food you eat abuse humans and even abuse animals in the process.