2026-02-13 22:51 UTC
"But what if the person eating the ration is fighting in a defensive war against an aggressor?" is just about the ONLY situation where a vegan military ration is not completely absurd.
However, let's put on our thinking caps for a second.
If you are fighting a defensive war, like a REAL defensive war, the potential animal ethics of your food are going to be a secondary concern
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@alpine_thistle@fandom.ink 2026-02-13 22:56
The main target of this criticism is not necessarily individual vegans (though vegans in the military are fair fucking game) or veganism as an ideology, but the kind of spineless neoliberal consumer-as-activist ideology that leads to a demand for vegan military rations. It's the same mindset that gives us a Raytheon booth at Pride