If you’re a vegan in the US but you pay tax, part of your tax contribution goes toward livestock farming subsidies. So in effect you are forced to support unethical treatment of animals.

So I have to wonder-- have vegans attempted to fight for the right to be fully vegan and thus requested to opt-out of those subsidies? In principle, it seems a vegan should be able to tick on a box on their tax forms saying “I was vegan this whole tax year” and the result should be a tax credit that reimburses their share of the livestock subsidies the gov pays every year using public money.

  • @Okokimup
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    211 months ago

    That said, I’m not sure if that concretely allows a vegan to derive a right to be vegan.

    Jesum fuck, it’s this kind of gatekeeping that keeps people from making better decisions because you make them think it has to be all or nothing.