The cleavage between the vegan left and the organic right
There are some hard differences between the right and left that are so profound that they manifest physically. You won't see too many conservative women with faded colored hair, pants that sit above the belly button, whose hobbies include "traveling" and spending too much money on anything. You won't find too many liberal dudes with thick calves who buzz their hair even though it's balding. Am I the only one who notices that lefty dudes grow out their thinning hair as if it's not thinning?
Anyway, my point being is that there are obvious differences between someone who thinks more right or left. You can pick out a lefty from a mile away whereas someone on the right just looks like a normal person. One way that difference manifests is in the diet of the food aware individual.
In the past decade or so, there has been major disclosure (thanks to the internet and people like Alex Jones and Mike Adams) about Monsanto and their past, chemicals in the tap water like fluoride, hormones and antibiotics in the meat and overall eating in a much more clean and wholesome way. The organic movement stemming from the "off-grid" class of rightist libertarians is appealing to most people and why wouldn't it? That's how our ancestors did it for millennia, it's in our DNA. The left could even be on board with something like that and they were for a little but until they fucked it up.
You go to any whole foods (owned by the richest man in the world and lefty Jeff Bezos) and you'll find most of their products aren't even organic, they're not even anything! It's normal food that's in almost any grocery store but the price is hiked up so bad that it attracts the only kind of people who are willing to pay too much for something because they cannot bring themselves down to the level of the "average person." Even just look at the people who work there, they look like they belong in a protest for the reproductive rights of trannys.
As I digress into a rant, what I was trying to say is that the organic movement, in large, has been hijacked by leftists and to fill that health conscious void, they turn to veganism. Even that health conscious void within themselves has been hijacked by their (dare I say?) TOXIC altruism! Ahhh Haa! Now we're getting to the crux of what makes a leftist a leftist; their desire to nag, lecture and tell people how to live because they tell themselves they're qualified to do so.
The vegan does not go vegan because it's better for their health or that it's a stable economic choice (quite the opposite), they do it to "save the animals" which gives them ammunition to henpeck people who ranch for a living or who are a local butcher. You know, the small business non-corporate types who have skill. PETA is a perfect example. They're constantly trying to attack, get people to do things and change words. Some of the issue include banning Fourth of July fireworks for the dogs, how humans being more capable that animals is "bigotry" and how you're a bad person if you watch a live feed of a giraffe give birth. Of course PETA is all about veganism, they hate plants and they wish they were all dead. That's why the left is pushing for wooden utensils to replace plastic ones. I was kidding on that last one...
Now take the libertarian food conscious person, they just want to support a small family farm who does things the right way and they dream of one day where they can move out into the mountains of Idaho, be sustainable, sell some of their stuff and be left alone.
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