After a vegan blue cheese won the Good Food Award, panicked dairy cheese makers forced the foundation to disqualify it - eviltoast
  • Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    You’re straw manning their argument. They aren’t comparing the oppression of LGBTQIA+ folk to the oppression of cheese. The comparison is to the oppression of animals - who most definitely are being dragged behind the truck.

    You can, and probably would, make the argument that animals don’t deserve the same level of moral consideration as LGBTQIA+ humans, but the vegan argument is that non-human animals experience pain and suffering and deserve the same right to life and non-exploitation for the same reason that any human (LGBTQIA+ or not) does.