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It's funny to me because it reads like a satire of non-vegans, but this is literally how most of them are.

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[–] Inui@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It depends who you talk to. The original definition was coined by people who were originally classified as vegetarian but opposed drinking milk and had conflict within their organizations because of it. Thats how The Vegan Society came about and who the definition of the term was expanded by.

Veganism as a philosophy has always been against all animal use where practicable (commonly conflated with practical), meaning it recognizes that it may not be possible for every object you own to be fully absent of animal exploitation under the present societal conditions.

Many people who call themselves vegan erroneously apply this solely to diet though and especially non-vegans will do this since their common perception is of veganism as a dietary restriction rather than an ethical philosophy.

In every day, I would assume someone I am talking to who says they are vegan will also not own leather items, etc. In practice, people will use all sorts of reasoning to bend these rules, such as keeping objects they owned before they were vegan, arguing it was bought second hand, etc. So outside of places like this and vegancirclejerk, you'll find a lot of variety.