Plenty of vegans in India for centuries, not luxurious or modern. You can say that being vegan is hard in modern meat-oriented society, but then turn your critique towards the system and not towards the people telling you to go vegan. And I say this as a non-vegan.
You’re thinking of vegetarians, and it’s more commonly practiced by those who can afford to. Upper-class vegetarians fought to prevent eggs being given to impoverished school children in India.
There earliest proponent of veganism listed on Wikipedia is Abu al-Ala al-Ma’arri, roughly one thousand years ago. According to their source:
“[Al-Maʿarri’s] diet was extremely frugal, consisting chiefly of lentils, with figs for sweet; and, very unusually for a Muslim, he was not only a vegetarian, but a vegan who abstained from meat, fish, dairy products, eggs, and honey, because he did not want to kill or hurt animals, or deprive them of their food.”
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Al-Ma’arri held an antinatalist outlook, in line with his general pessimism, suggesting that children should not be born to spare them of the pains and suffering of life.
Plenty of vegans in India for centuries, not luxurious or modern. You can say that being vegan is hard in modern meat-oriented society, but then turn your critique towards the system and not towards the people telling you to go vegan. And I say this as a non-vegan.
You’re thinking of vegetarians, and it’s more commonly practiced by those who can afford to. Upper-class vegetarians fought to prevent eggs being given to impoverished school children in India.
veganism is a philosophy, and has been around less than one hundred years
There earliest proponent of veganism listed on Wikipedia is Abu al-Ala al-Ma’arri, roughly one thousand years ago. According to their source:
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I should read this guy’s work.
veganism as a term didn’t exist until the 1940s, and the philosophy is not the same as what al-ma’arri advocated.