Avocados Aren't Vegan Now?

BBC game show host Sandy Toksvig claims that avocado toast isn't vegan because bees. My response.
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[abbreviatedalex]

Sandy Toksvig: "Vegans aren't 100% perfect 100% of the time, so I don't even have to TRY to live ethically."

[roku]

It's like  telling someone their phone case was made in a Chinese labor camp, so we might as well all eat babies every day.

[abcdefg-xmdc]

Gotta love cow stabbers pretending to care about insects

[to]

Nothing is 100% vegan because insects and animals interact with our food so much. As vegans, our goal should be kindness to animals, reduction of suffering, and conservation. All of these hair splitting semantics are just poorly designed attempts to make vegans lose hope for our message. Don't surrender now, my friends. We're winning.

[dollyfoster]

As long as avocados didn't scream when turned into guacamole it's vegan

[avidian]

If they invested half of the energy that they use to argue and fight with the vegans in doing something constructive and causing less harm to the planet, we'd be a happy society. 😝

[byusaranicole]

"Veganism is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is POSSIBLE and PRACTICABLE, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose."

I feel zero guilt eating avocado.

[HopyHop]

Well, people die while engaged in agricultural work and food transportation. I guess that makes everyone a cannibal.

[jodrew]

Thanks for posting that nugget of false info from the UK. Its truly preposterous how silly people are about veganism. An addition to your eloquent response which could have been directed at her ageist pompous comment could have been that not all vegans are millennials, there are baby boomers like myself who are WFPB vegans. Just because people are born into an age group doesn't mean that they are all the same.

[BrunoPozoReal]

Haha it’s cute that they have to try so hard to find flaws in veganism. It’s sad cause they obviously don’t understand it and have to relieve their cognitive dissonance so these mental gymnastics come into play. Just change your behavior!! Who doesn’t want to move fwd and be a better person :)

[Zenjohnny]

Do LESS harm... That's the point of veganism. Not to be perfect.

[kilppa]

That "bad news for millenials" bit was really irritating too. Yeah, like every vegan would be a millenial. That too were made in the sense of "naive, spoiled millenials, who don't know a thing".

[vegancreature]

I'm so much happier not to watch any mainstream TV, you can avoid listening to so much sh*t

[Nikkeftw]

Lets ignore the vast amount of plants polinated by bees that ends up feeding livestock, very ineffecient. Lets ignore how many bees the meat industry kills. Lets ignore the single biggest problem on earth, and lets talk about avocados and nuts while we eat said problem.

*EDIT: The vast majority of food for livestock is not polinated, however the farmers use inseticde, pesticide and fungicide on livestock feed which gets carried to plants that the bees do polinate and come in contact with. There is a correlation, but my original statement is not accurate.

[Olibelus]

If it’s a PLANT, it’s vegan for me. Enough said. Cultivation can be improved, though.

[jholmie]

just up here munching on chips and guac on my vegan high horse 🐴

[aquapurple]

LOL i absolutely love that she assumes that vegans are made up of only “millennials” 🙄 why do people feel the need to be so defensive about their choices and attack anyone who decides to diverge from the norm and actually has valid reasons to change the way the eat? It’s honestly so trivial to me. Like, people have even asked me if I can eat nutritional yeast bc it’s bacteria... 👀 like, if I can’t eat bacteria then I won’t be able to eat anything man c’mon

[govegmofomakeamuffin]

6:20 you bring up an often ignored point. Agriculture has room for improvement in terms of the death toll that is produced.. but this will always be second priority to ending the intentional holocausting of animals. I'm not opposed to using better more ethical treatment to bees and trying to find ways around killing pests/foragers during processing or pest control, and I think you'd have to be insane to be so long as it is economically viable. However these things will never ever be improved upon whilst we have an industry that exists solely to intentionally kill animals needlessly

[MrDouglasSawyer]

I'm not a vegan. I just do the best I can not to destroy the environment by my dietary choices. So this minutia from vegan haters is irrelevant. I happen to choose vegan %99 of the time because it tastes better.

[Alexandra_sloan]

I’ve never rolled my eyes so hard before 🤣 People will say anything to justify eating and abusing animals 🤦🏻‍♀️