People love to call veganism ‘privileged,’ while conveniently ignoring the fact that the only reason animal products are even close to being accessible for the average consumer is because they’re factory farmed, slaughtered and packed by grossly underpaid labourers working in dangerous conditions, and then massively subsidised by all of our taxes.

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    That’s just ridiculous to me. Why? I have had fries plenty of times which were way better than McDonald fries and all they were made of was potatoes, oil, and salt. The perfect French fry doesn’t need anything other than that. It’s all about choosing the right potato variety and then it all comes down to cooking technique.

    The fact that McDonald puts anything else in their fries just makes me shake my head.

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      McDonalds fries have 19 ingredients, many of them processing chemicals, and one labeled Natural Beef Flavor [wheat And Milk Derivatives]*), they have been sued over it a few times and at various points McD made PR videos showing their fries are safe, so i would imagine it is not actually fit for human consumption Source

      ETA: When McD hired Grant Imahara, has very big Kari Byron supporting Big Oil vibes

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        Didnt know about either of that, thats disappointing (the grant and kari thing)

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      Usually when things like this happen, its because someone has a buddy that sells something like milk powder, and they’re lining their pockets